Corporations and Citizenship

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

Corporations and Citizenship

Edited by: Greg Urban

In the series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209716

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About this book

Assembling scholars from legal studies, business ethics, philosophy, history, political science, and anthropology, Corporations and Citizenship addresses the role of modern for-profit corporations as a distinctive kind of social formation within democratic national states.

Author information

Greg Urban is Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of several books, including Metaculture: How Culture Moves Through the World.

Reviews

"A serious engagement with the mutual implications of citizenship and corporations is overdue. This book's main gambit is theoretically and critically suggestive in ways that reach across the human sciences."—Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Chapter 1. Why For-Profit Corporations and Citizenship? Greg Urban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Are For-Profit Corporations in the Public Interest?
Chapter 2. Corporate Power and the Public Good Lynn Sharp Paine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 3. How Big Business Targets Children Joel Bakan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 4. Corporate Social Purpose and the Task of Management Jeffery Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 5. Corporate Purpose and Social Responsibility Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Louis Galambos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 6. Education by Corporation The Merits and Perils of For-Profit Higher Education for a Democratic Citizenry Amy J. Sepinwall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 7. Enron and the Legacy of Corporate Discourse Rosalie Genova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 8. Saving TEPCO Debt, Credit, and the “End” of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan Hirokazu Miyazaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Part II. Does Government Regulation of Corporations Promote Well-Being in a Democratic Society?
Chapter 9 The Rise and Embedding of the Corporation Considerations for American Democracy and Citizenship Walter Licht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 10. Citizens of the Corporation? Workplace Democracy in a Post-Union Era Cynthia Estlund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter 11. Politics and Corporate Governance What Explains Policy Outcomes? Peter Gourevitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 12. The Nature and Futility of “Regulation by Assimilation” Jonathan R. Macey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 13. Multinational Corporations as Regulators and Central Planners Implications for Citizens’ Voice Katharina Pistor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Chapter 14. Ethnicity, Inc. On the Affective Economy of Belonging Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Chapter 15. Corporate Nostalgia? Managerial Capitalism from a Contemporary Perspective Karen Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Chapter 16. Can For-Profit Corporations Be Good Citizens? Perspectives from Four Business Leaders Nien-hê Hsieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 392
Illustrations
- Other: 1 illus.
Keywords: Public Policy; Business; Political Science; Public Policy; Business; Economics

eBook

Published: May 8, 2014
ISBN: 9780812209716