Tag: corporate governance
RIP PLC: The Rise of the Ghost Corporation
From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th, one form of economic organisation seemed to be displacing all others—the limited...
The Milton Friedman New York Times Corporate Social Responsibility Debate
50 years on from the publication of Milton Friedman's "The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase...
Business is not politics
Why do business leaders often fail in applying their skills to politics?
The concept of the corporation
This is a paper John delivered at a festschrift for Leslie Hannah, the leading British business historian of his (and my) generation. Les and I have been friends and colleagues since we were both young fellows of St Johns College Oxford in the 1970s and my first book, Concentration in Modern Industry, published in 1977, was co-authored with him.
Corporate Governance: BEIS Select Committee written evidence
Background and responses to specific questions:
