CORPORATE POWER AND OWNERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM by Susanne Soederberg ( 9780415467889 )

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CORPORATE POWER AND OWNERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM
THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE AND DOMINATION

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Susanne Soederberg

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0415467888

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Pub. date:

1 September, 2009

Series:

RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Pages:

216

Description:

In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book seeks to map and define the nature of resistance and domination in contemporary capitalism. It reconnects the social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of shareholder activism.

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Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book seeks to map and define the nature of resistance and domination in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on a Marxist-informed framework, this book reconnects the social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of shareholder activism. In contrast to other texts that deal with corporate governance, this study examines a diverse and comprehensive set of themes, from socially responsible investing to labour-led shareholder activism and its limitations. Through this ambitious and critical study, author Susanne Soederberg demonstrates how the corporate governance doctrine represents an inherent feature of neoliberal rule, effectively disembedding and depoliticising relations of domination and resistance from the wider power and paradoxes of capitalism.Examining corporate governance and shareholder activism in a number of different contexts that include the United States and the global South, this important book will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy, international relations and development studies. It will also be of relevance to a wider range of disciplines including finance, economics, and business and management studies. Winner of the Davidson/Studies in Political Economy Award.

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