In light of recent trends of corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, Sanford Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of twentieth-century welfare capitalism, that is, the history of nonunion corporations that looked after the economic security of employees. Building...

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that...

These days, Americans seem to take their corporate governance model for granted. Shareholder interests are now all that matter. But the author traces the history of corporate governance to show that such models change over time. And they are different in other nations, such as Japan. In his...