The Embedded Firm : Corporate Governance, Labor, and Finance Capitalism

Cover -- The Embedded Firm -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: corporate governance after the 'end of history': investigating the new 'great transformation' -- Thematic overview -- Theoretical perspectives -- Conclusion -- Part I Historical trajectories of business and regulation -- 2 Corporate governance and financial crisis in the long run -- I Introduction -- II Shareholder value: an aberration in the evolution of corporate law? -- III Shareholder value and corporate failure: from Enron to the crisis of 2008-2009 -- IV Corporate governance after the crisis -- V Conclusion -- 3 Financialism: a (very) brief history -- 4 Legitimating power: the changing status of the board of directors -- I Introduction -- II Trust -- III Representation -- IV Legitimacy -- V Epilogue -- 5 Engaging corporate boards: the limits of liability rules in modern corporate governance -- I Introduction -- II Foundational corporate governance concepts in the United States -- III A brief sketch of the evolution of US corporate governance -- A Boards of directors in the age of managerialism -- B Social forces that destroyed the manageralist model of corporate governance -- IV Board engagement and the directors' duty to be attentive -- V Conclusions -- 6 The primacy of Delaware and the embeddedness of the firm -- I Introduction -- II The first wave: drawing the distinction -- III The second wave: event studies and the attempts to settle the Cary-Winter debate -- IV The third wave: post-Enron -- V Lessons from the Delaware debate -- 7 The new embeddedness of the corporation: corporate social responsibility in the knowledge society -- I Introduction -- II The death of contract and the rise of finance -- A Corporations and finance -- B Transformations of capitalism and the law -- C Crisis - what crisis?.