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The form of the firm: A critical and...

Singer, Abraham Andrew.

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The form of the firm: A critical and normative theory of the corporation.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The form of the firm: A critical and normative theory of the corporation./
作者:	Singer, Abraham Andrew.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	352 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10140689
ISBN:	9781339960845

The form of the firm: A critical and normative theory of the corporation.
Singer, Abraham Andrew.

The form of the firm: A critical and normative theory of the corporation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 352 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2016.

This dissertation explores the corporation from the perspective of normative political theory. As I argue, the corporation is not easily located within the theoretical matrix of liberal democracy. Because of this, a political theory of the corporation is required in order to evaluate whether our corporate institutions are consonant with the liberal democratic values we affirm. The first half of the dissertation explores the Chicago School's political theory of the corporation. In this view corporations are taken to be the result of market-like individual voluntary initiatives, and therefore should be left alone for the sake of efficiency and liberty. The Chicago School argues for this, however, at the expense of coherence and sociological rigor. The better way to approach the corporation, I argue, is by seeing it as enabling what I call "norm-governed production." On my account, firms overcome market inefficiencies by drawing on social and cooperative scripts that allow for cooperative activity that the market under-produces or does not produce at all.

ISBN: 9781339960845Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

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