Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Margaret M. Blair, Bruce K. MacLaury
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ISBN: 0815709471
Publisher: The Brookings Institution (June, 1995)
Sales Rank: 88,184
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Thought-provoking and persuasive
Margaret Blair analyzes the two major theoretical approaches to corporate governance and then persuasively refutes the notion, central to both, that maximizing shareholder value is the only legitimate mission of a corporation. The key to her argument, that shareholders are not the only bearers of residual risk, is intuitively obvious in light of the changing nature of work in many sectors of American industry; however, I have never seen the point made with such analytical rigor.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Ground breaking!
Blair reviews how the governance of public corporations in the U.S. is supposed to work, in theory and by law. She compares the traditional economic rationale for corporate governance structures, which stress shareholder and/or management models of control. Then, she posits a more broadly based stakeholder model, based on a reexamination of the basic wealth creating purpose of the corporate form. Building on trends which note the declining cost of capital, relative to total production costs, and the increasing significance of investments in firm-specific human capital, Blair makes several recommendations concerning how corporate governance systems might evolve to enhance long-term wealth creation for all parties. Her critical analysis contains many insights which deserve wide circulation and debate. Similar Products
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