Type of work: literature review chapter for phd thesis. Please make it very elaborated analysis.
References: please use all the pdfs provided
Background research: Future of Stewardship and the evolving roles of the Board of Directors.
How: – Demonstrate the key theories, arguments, and controversies in the topic. – The main topics of change from shareholder primacy/agency theory to stakeholderism. – Highlight the key aspects that impacts corporate governance.
Tone: pro a reform on the values and belief systems towards a more humanistic capitalism
Summary of topics:
- The purpose of corporations. For whom corporations are managed? Controversies on shareholder primacy (origins, why, how) vs. companies as social agents/stakeholders
- Make a matrix comparing believes and values in the shareholder primacy and stakeholderism
- The debate over stakeholderism: main ideas, controversies, advocacy
- Prof Nathan (re-theorizing the firm and social justice) – put focus on that
- Prof Leo Strine x Prof Rock
- Prof Colin Mayer x his critics
- Corporate purpose: the future of stewardship? Main ideas from the literature provided focusing on
- EESG (leo strine concept)
- social justice
- long-term value creation vs short-termism (financial performance)