The Institutional Theory of the Firm: Embedded Autonomy

ISBN-13: 9780367785161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 186 str.

Alexander Styhre

Opis

This book brings together a diverse literature to advance the argument that the corporation is best understood as what is embedded in a social and economic context, yet best serving its defined and stipulated ends by assuming considerable degrees of freedom to operate in isolation from various stakeholders

Spis treści

Preface

Chapter One

Embedded autonomy: An institutional theory view of the firm

Chapter Two

Corporate legislation: The constitution of the corporate entity

Chapter Three

The moral economy of enterprising: Social norms and their regulatory function

Chapter Four

Corporate Governance and transnational governance: The limits of self-governance

Chapter Five:

Concluding remarks: Re-embedding the corporation

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Alexander Styhre, PhD (Lund University, 1998), is chair of Organization and Management, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg.