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Item Details
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CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBILITY
AMERICA'S NEWEST EXPORT |
| By: |
Lawrence E. Mitchell |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300090234 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300090239 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 December, 2001 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Corporations are often so focused on making short-term profits that they behave in ways that adversely affect their employees, the environment, consumers, politics, and the long-term health of the corporation. Lawrence E. Mitchell offers a criticism of this emphasis on profit maximization. |
| Synopsis: |
Corporations are often so focused on making short-term profits for their stockholders that they behave in ways that adversely affect their employees, the environment, consumers, American politics, and even the long-term well-being of the corporation, says Lawrence Mitchell in this provocative book. This is a significant issue not only in the United States but also in the world, for many countries are beginning to emulate the American model of corporate governance. Mitchell criticises this emphasis on profit maximisation and the corporate legal structure that encourages it, and he offers concrete proposals to bring about more socially responsible corporate behavior. Mitchell declares that managers should be freed from the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for them to exercise ordinary moral judgment and be held accountable for their actions. He suggests, for example, that earnings reports be required annually rather than quarterly, that the capital gains tax be increased on stocks held for fewer than thirty days, and that elections of corporate boards of directors be held every five years rather than every year.Mitchell places the problem of corporate irresponsibility within the broader context of American life and demonstrates the extent to which contemporary corporate behaviour represents a corruption of our cherished liberal values of personal freedom and individuality. |
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US |
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Yale University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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