03649nam 22006854a 450 991077706940332120230207223331.00-8147-8660-X(CKB)1000000000001771(EBL)866212(OCoLC)779828478(SSID)ssj0000278263(PQKBManifestationID)11211195(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278263(PQKBWorkID)10246164(PQKB)10153030(MiAaPQ)EBC866212(OCoLC)55638569(MdBmJHUP)muse10299(Au-PeEL)EBL866212(CaPaEBR)ebr10032530(DE-B1597)547474(DE-B1597)9780814786604(EXLCZ)99100000000000177120001004d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCorporate power in civil society[electronic resource] an application of societal constitutionalism /David SciulliNew York New York University Pressc20011 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9786-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-397) and index.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 Economy10 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 AuthorThe 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 individualsCorporation lawSocial aspectsUnited StatesJudicial powerSocial aspectsUnited StatesCorporate governanceUnited StatesSocial responsibility of businessUnited StatesSocial contractUnited StatesCivil societyUnited StatesCorporation lawSocial aspectsJudicial powerSocial aspectsCorporate governanceSocial responsibility of businessSocial contractCivil society346.73/066Sciulli David773734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777069403321Corporate power in civil society1711457UNINA