Responsibility in Corporate Action: A Sociologist’s View

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of Contents xi
4. Chapter I. Theoretical Framework and Legal Foundations
5. The Legal Development of Corporate Responsibility 3
6. The Economic Context of Corporate Social Responsibility 55
7. Responsibility in Corporate Action: A Sociologist’s View 69
8. Chapter II. Strategies of Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility
9. Corporate Social Responsibility: Interests and Goals 95
10. Public Interest Representation: Economic and Social Policy Inside the Enterprise 122
11. Chapter III. Directors’ Duties and Liabilities
12. Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Their Beneficiaries 149
13. The Economic Functions of Corporate Liability 178
14. Board Members’ Liability for Damages 208
15. The Private Law Enforcement of Directors’ Duties 261
16. Chapter IV. Disclosure and Social Reporting
17. Self-Dealing and Use of Corporate Opportunity and Information: Regulating Directors’ Conflicts of Interest 285
18. Disclosure as Preventive Enforcement 327
19. Disclosure, Insider Information and Capital Market Functions 338
20. Corporate Social Reporting and Auditing: Theory and Practice 354
21. Rescue Operations in Business Crises 380
22. Chapter V. Outside Representation on the Boards: Conflicts of Interest
23. The Enterprise as a Political System 401
24. Dual Loyalty of Labor Representatives 429
25. Annex
26. Biographical Sketches of the Authors 445
27. Table of Cases 451
28. Index 455
29. 464 464