ISBN:
9781800433762
Inhalt:
The currently dominant version of the corporate form – the profit-maximizing corporation – is one of the most influential organizational forms in contemporary society. It is also one of the most criticized organizational forms, especially with respect to questions of purpose, participation, and ownership. The corporation’s strong focus on profit maximization and its non-democratic nature, as it excludes non-shareholding stakeholders from participating in how the corporation is run, have all attracted significant criticism. There are, however, several debates over alternative ways of organizing besides the corporation. In this chapter, we review the most influential of these: co-operatives, state-owned enterprises, democratically organized firms, social enterprises, stakeholder firms, and firms based on the sharing economy business model. We first analyze how these alternative ways of organizing do things differently with respect to questions of purpose, participation, and ownership and then we discuss how these different approaches can inspire efforts to reform the corporation.
In:
The corporation, Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022, (2022), Seite 209-231, 9781800433762
In:
9781800433786
In:
year:2022
In:
pages:209-231
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Aufsatz im Buch
DOI:
10.1108/S0733-558X20220000078011
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