Book Review on the Corporation

British journal of industrial Relations 43:4 celestial latitude 2005 00071080 pp. 729746 © Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2005. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Oxford, UKBJIRBritish Journal of Industrial Relations0007-1080Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2005December 2005434729746Book Reviews Book ReviewsBritish Journal of Industrial Relations BOOK REVIEWS The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of value and Power by Joel Bakan. Constable, London, 2004, 228 pp., ISBN 1 84529 079 8, £22.46, paper. The Corporation is the book written by healthy academic Joel Bakan to accompany the documentary film of the same chance on which appeared last year. Its main claim is that many of the ills of contemporary capitalism can be traced to the legal form of the business flowerpot. This is because, Bakan argues, the corporation has a legal mandate to pursue, relentlessly and with reveal exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often insidious consequences it might cause to others; hence its pathological nature.

Chapter 1 sets out a brief history of company law, tracing the root of the concepts of separate personality and limited liability, and noting some of the more perverse consequences of the US practice of regarding corporations as persons under the protection of the constitution. Chapter 2 is largely given up to arguing that the recent revival of the corporate social tariff (CSR) movement has made little difference to the underlying pathology of the corporate form. Chapter 3 argues that, while government regulations purport to control corporations and limit the damage they cause to third parties, this goal is undermined in practice by lobbying efforts. Chapter 4 discusses corporate ambitions to take over government. Chapter 5 is interested with the multifarious ways in which modern... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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