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Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America
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In this paper, the authors discuss the New Financial Capitalism and Corporate Governance: From Institution to Nexus: How the Corporation Got, then Lost, its Soul 4. From Banks to Markets: How Securitization Ended the "Wonderful Life" 5. From Sovereign to Vendor-State: How Delaware and Liberia Became the McDonalds and Nike of Corporate Law 6. From Employee and Citizen to Investor: How Talent, Friends, and Homes Became "capital" 7. Conclusion: A Society of Investors?Abstract:
Preface 1. The New Financial Capitalism 2. Financial Markets and Corporate Governance 3. From Institution to Nexus: How the Corporation Got, then Lost, its Soul 4. From Banks to Markets: How Securitization Ended the "Wonderful Life" 5. From Sovereign to Vendor-State: How Delaware and Liberia Became the McDonalds and Nike of Corporate Law 6. From Employee and Citizen to Investor: How Talent, Friends, and Homes Became "capital" 7. Conclusion: A Society of Investors?read more
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Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance
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Making sense of financialization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the insights of more than a decade of scholarship on financialization and argue that a deeper understanding of financialization will lead to a better understanding of organized interests, the politics of the welfare state, and processes of institutional change.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutional Theory: New Perspectives on Private Governance
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Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor
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Comparative and International Corporate Governance
Ruth V. Aguilera,Gregory Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the state of the art in comparative and international corporate governance by identifying the key research questions, main concepts, and paradigms of explanations of cross-country diversity in corporate governance.