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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449849403321

Autore

Sciulli David

Titolo

Corporate power in civil society [[electronic resource] ] : an application of societal constitutionalism / / David Sciulli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8147-8660-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Disciplina

346.73/066

Soggetti

Corporation law - Social aspects - United States

Judicial power - Social aspects - United States

Corporate governance - United States

Social responsibility of business - United States

Social contract - United States

Civil society - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-397) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Corporations and Civil Society: Institutional Externalities of Corporate Power; 2 The Turbulence of the 1980's; I Overview and Background; 3 Contractarians and Imposers; 4 Contractarians and Balancers; 5 Major Delaware Decisions of the 1980's and 1990's; II Sources of Judicial Drift; 6 Why Contractarians Fail to Explain Judicial Behavior; 7 Why Imposers Fail to Explain Judicial Behavior; 8 Legislative Action: Stakeholder Balancing and Its Limits; 9 Contractarian Reaction: Opting Out; III Corporate Law and Judicial Practice in a Global Economy

10 America's Constitutional Court for Intermediary Associations 11 Beyond the Failures: A Threshold of Procedural Norms; 12 Time-Warner and Institutional Externalities: From Culture to Form; 13 Explaining and Predicting Judicial Behavior in a Global Economy; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980's and 1990's raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or



hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get things done in a corporation's name and who can be held legally responsible for a corporation's misbehavior? What role, if any, should the courts play in strengthening the rights of individuals