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Firm Commitment: Why the corporation is failing us and how to restore trust in it de Colin Mayer

Firm Commitment: Why the corporation is failing us and how to restore trust in it

Autor Colin Mayer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 ian 2013

Imaginați-vă o instituție care ne hrănește, ne oferă adăpost și locuri de muncă, dar care, în același timp, este responsabilă pentru o mare parte din poluarea globală și inechitatea socială. În Firm Commitment, Colin Mayer ne poartă într-o călătorie neașteptată, de la ecosistemele din Galapagos până la structurile administrative ale Egiptului Antic, pentru a demonstra că actualul model corporativ nu este o fatalitate istorică, ci o construcție care și-a pierdut busola morală. Remarcăm autoritatea cu care autorul disecă mecanismele interne ale firmei, arătând cum goana după profitul pe termen scurt a subminat încrederea publică.

Abordarea sa în acest volum diferă de The Oxford Handbook of the Corporation prin caracterul său mult mai aplicabil și mai puțin enciclopedic; dacă Handbook-ul oferă o radiografie teoretică, Firm Commitment trasează o foaie de parcurs pentru reformă. Comparativ cu Accountable de Warren Valdmanis, care mizează pe povești inspiraționale, Colin Mayer folosește rigoarea economică a unui academician de la Oxford pentru a propune schimbări structurale în guvernanța corporativă. Apreciem modul în care lucrarea se integrează în opera autorului, făcând tranziția de la analiza tehnică din Principles of Financial Regulation către o viziune mai largă despre scopul afacerilor, temă pe care o va rafina ulterior în Putting Purpose Into Practice. Cititorul va învăța cum să redefinească succesul unei firme nu doar prin dividende, ci prin capacitatea de a rezolva problemele societății fără a crea altele noi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199669936
ISBN-10: 0199669937
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 152 x 217 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte liderilor de business, economiștilor și celor interesați de politici publice care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile crizei de încredere în capitalism. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care reglementările și structura de proprietate pot fi modificate pentru a alinia interesele private cu binele comun, transformând corporația într-o forță regenerativă pentru secolul XXI.

Despre autor

Colin Mayer este profesor de studii de management la Saïd Business School din cadrul Universității Oxford și membru cercetător la CEPR. Este o autoritate recunoscută la nivel mondial în domeniul guvernanței corporative și al reglementării financiare. Prin activitatea sa academică și editorială, Mayer a influențat dezbaterea globală despre rolul social al companiilor, argumentând constant pentru o redefinire a scopului corporativ dincolo de maximizarea profitului acționarilor.

Descriere

The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a substantial proportion of the wealth that we possess. But the corporation is also the cause of immense problems and suffering, a source of poverty and pollution, and its failures are increasing. How is the corporation failing us? Why is it happening? What should we do to restore trust in it? While governments are subject to repeated questioning and scrutiny, the corporation receives relatively little attention. Firm Commitment provides a lucid and insightful account of the role of the corporation in modern society and explains why its problems are growing. It gives a fresh perspective on the crises in financial markets, developing countries, and the environment. Based on decades of analysis and research, it describes a new approach to thinking about the firm which not only stops it destroying us but turns it into the means of protecting our environment, addressing social problems, and creating new sources of entrepreneurship and innovation. It sets out an agenda for converting the corporation into a twenty-first century organization that we will value and trust. It takes you on a journey that starts in the Galapagos, ends in Ancient Egypt, and in the process brings you to a new level of appreciation of the economic world we inhabit.

Recenzii

A constructive critique of the commercial corporation and ultimately an ambiguous agenda for change. Worthy of wide readership because it is also a carefully weighed historical reflection, and thus unlike the majority of books published in this genre.
A provocative book ... Mayer's critique of the modern corporation will resonate with millions who sense that something serious has gone amiss.
There is no shortage of reflections on the market failure in the West. [But this is] not just another fashionable tome on the topic. Rather, it is a solemn contemplation of the roots of corporations' defects. You can sense the seriousness of his thoughts in every line.
A smart new book.
An important book. It provides an impressive explanation of the state of things and a blueprint for converting the corporation into a 21st century organisation that could perhaps be trusted to promote the interests of economies and societies everywhere.
Mayer makes his case clearly and passionately.
An outspoken book ... This is not a theoretical debate but one of urgent importance for economies around the world.
The combination of theory and its commercial application comes through in this thoughtful study of the corporation. The analysis is quality.
Blunt ... thoughtful ... thought-provoking.
Lays out a plan for a radical rethink of the purpose of the corporation.
Lucid analysis
Corporate governance is manifestly in crisis: in this lucid and truly important book Colin Mayer explains why. Not only should you read this book, so should governments.
An impassioned and important plea for a reorientation of values in the modern corporation, offered by one of the world's leading scholars of corporate finance, ownership, and control.
Companies and wealth generation, as Professor Colin Mayer argues in his important book, are about co-creation, sharing risk and long-term trust relationships.
One lesson of the financial crisis is that the corporation which is a purely financial entity is a financial failure. Colin Mayer makes an important contribution to the rethinking of the nature of modern capitalism.
Modern theory on incentives, ownership and control of large publicly-traded corporations is broken. In Firm Commitment, Colin Mayer makes a huge and thoughtful contribution to fixing the broken theory. I heartily endorse his prescriptions -- values, trustees and time-based shares -- which are at the same time practical and break-through. Anyone interested in the future of democratic capitalism should read this book.
Original and provocative, Colin Mayer's ideas on reforming the corporation deserve very serious attention.

Notă biografică

Colin Mayer is former Dean of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and assisted in establishing the prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and ECGI. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, and the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles. He was a director of Oxera between 1986 and 2010 and was instrumental in building the firm into what is now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK.