Corporations and Citizenship / / ed. by Greg Urban.

President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions." But while corporations are ostensibly regulated by ci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Why For-Profit Corporations and Citizenship?
  • Part I. Are For-Profit Corporations in the Public Interest?
  • Chapter 2. Corporate Power and the Public Good
  • Chapter 3. How Big Business Targets Children
  • Chapter 4. Corporate Social Purpose and the Task of Management
  • Chapter 5. Corporate Purpose and Social Responsibility
  • Chapter 6. Education by Corporation
  • Chapter 7. Enron and the Legacy of Corporate Discourse
  • Chapter 8. Saving TEPCO
  • Part II. Does Government Regulation of Corporations Promote Well-Being in a Democratic Society?
  • Chapter 9 The Rise and Embedding of the Corporation
  • Chapter 10. Citizens of the Corporation?
  • Chapter 11. Politics and Corporate Governance
  • Chapter 12. The Nature and Futility of "Regulation by Assimilation"
  • Chapter 13. Multinational Corporations as Regulators and Central Planners
  • Chapter 14. Ethnicity, Inc.
  • Chapter 15. Corporate Nostalgia?
  • Chapter 16. Can For-Profit Corporations Be Good Citizens?
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments