Corporations vs. The Court : : Private Power, Public Interests / / David Sciulli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Sciulli, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part 1 An Institutional Approach to Corporations and Courts --; 1 The Promise and Limits of Institutionalism --; 2 Overcoming Conceptual Limitations --; 3 A Conceptual Framework for the Empirical Study of Institutional Change --; Part 2 U.S. Corporate Law: From Vigilance to Complacency --; 4 The Quest for Doctrinal Coherence: Initial Approaches to the Corporation --; 5 The Chancery of Old and the Problem of Social Order --; 6 The End of Doctrinal Coherence --; 7 Doctrinal Fissures: Corporate Law and Judicial Practice Today --; Part 3 Conclusion --; 8 Reconsidering Institutionalism --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685851804; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685851804
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Sciulli.

This original book looks methodically at corporate law, corporate governance, and judicial practice from the perspective of social theory. Sciulli explores whether there are identifiable limits—legal or normative—to corporate power in any democratic society; when the corporate judiciary in the U.S. maintains those limits, despite the pressures of intensifying global economic competition; and when the judiciary drifts, as an institution, away from bearing this responsibility. Assessing both the promise and the limits of the new, institutional approach to the sociology of organizations, Sciulli considers the influence of England's Chancery Courts in the U.S., especially with regard to private power in civil society. His study, moving from the eighteenth century to the present, provides a comprehensive analysis of corporate power and judicial restraints.