If board voting membership for stakeholders is inefficient and thus likely to be unfeasible, as Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) posits, How can Ben & Jerry's (B&J's) be accounted for? This question, overlooked by TCE scholars and stakeholder advocates alike, is answered in this paper....

Felipe Pérez Martí, who was the Venezuelan Minister of Planning and Development in the government of Hugo Chávez, proposes an economic model that he calls the altruistic economy or fourth way, which leads cooperative game theory to its logical extremes postulating a pure communism. Here we...