The Embedded Firm : Corporate Governance, Labor, and Finance Capitalism (Paperback)

List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction: corporate governance after the 'end of history': investigating the new 'Great Transformation' Cynthia Williams and Peer Zumbansen; Part I. Historical Trajectories of Business and Regulation: 2. Corporate governance and financial crisis in the long run Simon Deakin; 3. Financialism: a (very) brief history Lawrence E. Mitchell; 4. Legitimating power: the changing status of the board of directors Dalia Tsuk Mitchell; 5. Engaging corporate boards: the limits of liability rules in modern corporate governance William T. Allen; 6. The primacy of Delaware and the embeddedness of the firm Fenner Stewart; 7. The new embeddedness of the corporation: corporate social responsibility in the knowledge society Peer Zumbansen; Part II. New Interests, New Shareholder Constellations, New Landscapes: 8. Beyond the Berle and Means paradigm: private equity and the new capitalist order Stephen F. Diamond; 9. Pension funds as owners and as financial intermediaries: a review of recent Canadian experience Simon Archer; 10. Credit derivatives market design: creating fairness and sustainability Janis Sarra; 11. The EU Takeovers Directive: a shareholder or stakeholder model? Blanaid Clarke; 12. 'Law and finance': inaccurate, incomplete and important Ruth V. Aguilera and Cynthia A. Williams; Part III. Labor's Evolution in the Economy: 13. Labor and finance in the United States Sanford M. Jacoby; 14. The conflicting logic of markets and the management of production Suzanne Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson; 15. Organising workers globally - the need for public policy to regulate investment John Evans; 16. From governance to political economy: insights from a study of relations between corporations and workers Harry W. Arthurs and Claire Mumme; Part IV. The Transnational Embedded Firm and the Financial Crisis: 17. The intellectual foundations of the global financial crisis: analysis and proposals for reform Frank Jan De Graaf and Cynthia A. Williams; 18. Why executive pay matters to innovation and inequality William Lazonick; 19. Products, perimeters and politics: systemic risk and securities regulation Mary Condon; 20. Modernizing pension fund legal standards for the twenty-first century Keith Johnson and Frank Jan De Graaf; Part V. Conclusion: 21. Conclusion: evaluation, policy proposals and research agenda Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen; Index.