Corporate Governance and Business Ethics

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Corporate Governance and Business Ethics

9781848442009 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Jeremy Moon, Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, UK, Marc Orlitzky, Associate Professor, Penn State University, Altoona, US and Research Fellow, Nottingham University Business School, UK and Glen Whelan, ESG UQÀM, Montréal, Canada
Publication Date: 2010 ISBN: 978 1 84844 200 9 Extent: 576 pp
This important volume re-integrates corporate governance and business ethics which are too often treated as separate entities. The editors have selected seminal works which refocus on the ethical import of corporate governance foundations. This collection also traces recent ways in which the ethics of corporate governance have been articulated through reviews of practice, ethical re-evaluations, agency theory, the stakeholder concept, and comparative and international developments. It brings together a range of alternative perspectives and new directions in this vital and dynamic field. The authoritative volume will be an essential source of reference for students and scholars concerned with the power and responsibility of corporations.

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This important volume re-integrates corporate governance and business ethics which are too often treated as separate entities. The editors have selected seminal works which refocus on the ethical import of corporate governance foundations. This collection also traces recent ways in which the ethics of corporate governance have been articulated through reviews of practice, ethical re-evaluations, agency theory, the stakeholder concept, and comparative and international developments. It brings together a range of alternative perspectives and new directions in this vital and dynamic field. The authoritative volume will be an essential source of reference for students and scholars concerned with the power and responsibility of corporations.
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26 articles, dating from 1916 to 2008
Contributors include: R.V. Aguilera, A. Berle Jr, M.J. Clark, T. Clarke, W.M. Evan, E.F. Fama, M.F. Guillén, M. Jensen, I. Maitland, F.D. Schoorman
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Acknowledgements

Introduction Jeremy Moon, Marc Orlitzky and Glen Whelan

PART I THE EMERGENCE OF ETHICAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CONCERNS
1. J. Maurice Clark (1916), ‘The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility’
2. E. Merrick Dodd, Jr. (1932), ‘For Whom are Corporate Managers Trustees?’
3. A.A. Berle, Jr., (1932), ‘For Whom Corporate Managers Are Trustees: A Note’
4. Joseph L. Weiner (1964), ‘The Berle-Dodd Dialogue on the Concept of the Corporation’

PART II THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION
5. Adolf A. Berle (1965), ‘The Impact of the Corporation on Classical Economic Theory’
6. Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen (1983), ‘Separation of Ownership and Control’
7. James H. Davis, F. David Schoorman and Lex Donaldson (1997), ‘Toward a Stewardship Theory of Management’

PART III SHAREHOLDERS, STAKEHOLDERS AND MANAGERIAL DUTIES
8. William M. Evan and R. Edward Freeman (1988), ‘A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism’
9. John Hendry (2001), ‘Missing the Target: Normative Stakeholder Theory and the Corporate Governance Debate’
10. Ian Maitland (2001), ‘Distributive Justice in Firms: Do the Rules of Corporate Governance Matter?’
11. Alexei M. Marcoux (2003), ‘A Fiduciary Argument Against Stakeholder Theory’
12. Richard Marens and Andrew Wicks (1999), ‘Getting Real: Stakeholder Theory, Managerial Practice, and the General Irrelevance of Fiduciary Duties Owed to Shareholders’
13. David Lea (2004), ‘The Imperfect Nature of Corporate Responsibilities to Stakeholders’

PART IV COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
14. Ruth V. Aguilera and Gregory Jackson (2003), ‘The Cross-National Diversity of Corporate Governance: Dimensions and Determinants’
15. Lori Verstegen Ryan (2005), ‘Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in North America: The State of the Art’
16. Josef Wieland (2005), ‘Corporate Governance, Values Management, and Standards: A European Perspective’
17. Martin Rhodes and Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (1998), ‘Capital Unbound? The Transformation of European Corporate Governance’
18. David Kimber and Phillip Lipton (2005), ‘Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in the Asia-Pacific Region’
19. G.J. Rossouw (2005), ‘Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Africa’
20. Mauro F. Guillén and Mary A. O’Sullivan (2004), ‘The Changing International Corporate Governance Landscape’

PART V ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES AND NEW DIRECTIONS
21. Gerald F. Davis (2005), ‘New Directions in Corporate Governance’
22. Matthias Benz and Bruno S. Frey (2007), ‘Corporate Governance: What Can We Learn from Public Governance?’
23. Thomas Clarke (2007), ‘The Materiality of Sustainability: Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility as Instruments of Strategic Change?’
24. John Roberts (2001), ‘Corporate Governance and the Ethics of Narcissus’
25. Amiram Gill (2008), ‘Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda’
26. David Antony Detomasi (2007), ‘The Multinational Corporation and Global Governance: Modelling Global Public Policy Networks’

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