Corporate Business Responsibility

Justin O'Brien is Research Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Contents: Introduction; Part I The Role of Private Law in Framing Business Responsibilities: The modern corporation and private property: a reappraisal, Robert Hessen; The corporate contract, Frank H. Easterbrook and Daniel R. Fischel; The structure of corporation law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg; Private law and state-making in the age of globalization, Daniela Caruso. Part II The Role of the Shareholder in Framing Business Responsibilities: The apologetics of 'managerialism', Edward S. Mason; Eclipse of the public corporation, Michael C. Jensen; Company law and the myth of shareholder ownership, Paddy Ireland; Toward common sense and common ground? Reflections on the shared interests of managers and labor in a more rational system of corporate governance, Leo E. Strine. Part III The Role of Regulation in Shaping Business Responsibilities: Self-regulation as policy process: the multiple and criss-crossing stages of private rule making, Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit; Regulation and social solidarity, Tony Prosser; The social construction of Sarbanes-Oxley, Donald C. Langevoort. Part IV Re-Negotiating the Corporate Contract: Toward effective stakeholder dialogue, Muel Kaptein and Rob van Tulder; Engage, embed and embellish: theory versus practice in the corporate social responsibility movement, John M. Conley and Cynthia A. Williams; Accountability and responsibility in corporate governance, Larry E. Ribstein; Modes of managing morality: a descriptive model of strategies for managing ethics, Gedeon J. Rossouw and Leon J. van Vuuren; How community institutions create economic advantage: Jewish diamond merchants in New York, Barak D. Richman; Name index.