{"product_id":"corporations-and-citizenship-hardback-9780812246025","title":"Corporations and Citizenship (Hardback) 9780812246025","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCorporations and Citizenship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGreg Urban (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812246025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages, 1 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.798 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A serious engagement with the mutual implications of citizenship and corporations is overdue. This book's main gambit is theoretically and critically suggestive in ways that reach across the human sciences.\" (Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, \"Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions.\" But while corporations are ostensibly regulated by citizens through their governments, the firms in turn regulate many aspects of social and political life for individuals beyond their own employees and the communities that support them. Corporations are endowed with many of the same rights as citizens, such as freedom of speech, but are not themselves typically constituted around ideals of national belonging and democracy. In the wake of the global financial collapse of 2008, the question of what relationship corporations should have to governing institutions has only increased in urgency. As a democratically sanctioned social institution, should a corporation operate primarily toward profit accumulation or should its proper goal be to provision society with needed goods and services?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCorporations and Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the role of modern for-profit corporations as a distinctive kind of social formation within democratic national states. Scholars of legal studies, business ethics, politics, history, and anthropology bring their perspectives to bear on particular case studies, such as Enron and Wall Street, as well as broader issues of belonging, social responsibility, for-profit higher education, and regulation. Together, these essays establish a complex and detailed understanding of the ways corporations contribute positively to human well-being as well as the dangers that they pose.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Bakan, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Cynthia Estlund, Louis Galambos, Rosalie Genova, Peter Gourevitch, Karen Ho, Nien-hÊ Hsieh, Walter Licht, Jonathan R. Macey, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Lynn Sharp Paine, Katharina Pistor, Amy J. Sepinwall, Jeffery Smith, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Greg Urban.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Why For-Profit Corporations and Citizenship?\u003cbr\u003e -Greg Urban\u003cbr\u003e PART I. ARE FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS IN THE PUBIC INTEREST?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Corporate Power and the Public Good\u003cbr\u003e -Lynn Sharp Paine\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. How Big Business Targets Children\u003cbr\u003e -Joel Bakan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Corporate Social Purpose and the Task of Management\u003cbr\u003e -Jeffery Smith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Corporate Purpose and Social Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e -Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Louis Galambos\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Education by Corporation: The Merits and Perils of For-Profit Higher Education for a Democratic Citizenry\u003cbr\u003e -Amy J. Sepinwall\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Enron and the Legacy of Corporate Discourse\u003cbr\u003e -Rosalie Genova\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Saving TEPCO: Debt, Credit, and the \"End\" of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan\u003cbr\u003e -Hirokazu Miyazaki\u003cbr\u003e PART II. DOES GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF CORPORATIONS PROMOTE WELL-BEING IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Rise and Embedding of the Corporation: Considerations for American Democracy and Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e -Walter Licht\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Citizens of the Corporation? Workplace Democracy in a Post-Union Era\u003cbr\u003e -Cynthia Estlund\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Politics and Corporate Governance: What Explains Policy Outcomes?\u003cbr\u003e -Peter Gourevitch\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. The Nature and Futility of \"Regulation by Assimilation\"\u003cbr\u003e -Jonathan R. Macey\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Multinational Corporations as Regulators and Central Planners: Implications for Citizens' Voice\u003cbr\u003e -Katharina Pistor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Ethnicity, Inc.: On the Affective Economy of Belonging\u003cbr\u003e -Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Corporate Nostalgia? Managerial Capitalism from a Contemporary Perspective\u003cbr\u003e Karen Ho\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. Can For-Profit Corporations Be Good Citizens? Perspectives from Four Business Leaders\u003cbr\u003e -Nien-hÊ Hsieh\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555718295832,"sku":"9780812246025","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/corporations-and-citizenship-hardback-9780812246025","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}