The Corporation

Introduction; Part I. Disciplinary Overviews: 1. The corporation in history; 2. The corporation in legal studies; 3. The corporation in economics; 4. The corporation in sociology; 5. The corporation in anthropology; 6. The corporation in political science; 7. The corporation in geography; 8. The corporation in accounting; 9. The corporation in management; Part II. Interdisciplinary Thematic Chapters: 10. The evolution of the corporate form; 10a. Between company and state: the Dutch East and West India Companies as brokers between war and profit; 10b. Early modern business projects and a forgotten history of corporate social responsibility; 10c. Finance and the origins of modern company law; 11. The multinational corporate group; 11a. The multinational as a corporate form: a critical contribution from organization studies; 11b. Embedding the multinational corporation in transnational sustainability governance; 11c. Banks as global corporations: from entities to 'ecological habitats'; 12. The financialization of the corporation; 11a. The structure and agency of financialization; 11b. Financialized business models and the corporation; 11c. Transnational corporations and the international tax haven and offshore finance system; 13. Corporate value chains; 13a. The nature of the firm in global value chains; 13b. The corporation and the global value chain; 13c. Global production networks and the changing corporation; 14. Corporate citizenship; 14a. The functions and dysfunctions of corporate social responsibility; 14b. Reconsidering the critical corporate social responsibility perspective through French pragmatic sociology: subverting corporate do-gooding for the common good?; 14c. Certification schemes and labelling as corporate governance: the value of silence; 15. The corporation and crime; 15a. The criminal corporate person; 15b. The FBI on corporate crime: examining the influence of corporate culture; 15c. Mental blockades in the recognition of mens rea in corporations; 16. The corporation and ideology; 16a. Bad parresia: CSR and corporate mystification today; 16b. Capital, corporate citizenship and legitimacy: the ideological force of 'corporate crime'; 16c. Corporate foundations and ideology; 17. Corporation and communities; 17a. Articulating and disarticulating corporation and community; 17b. Communities within and without of the corporation: control, power and interests; 17c. Coercion and corporate power: notes on class struggle in an Indian city; 18. Corporations and resistance; 18a. Organizing in the nervous system: global trade unions and global production networks; 18b. Rethinking workplace resistance: between revolt and co-optation; 18c. Anarchist versus corporate ethics; 19. Alternatives to the corporation; 19a. Resisting and regulating corporations through ecologies of alternative enterprise: insurance and electricity in the US case; 19b. The psychological crisis of the corporation: employee-owned alternatives and futures; 19c. Organization is politics made durable: principles and alternatives.