Business at a crossroads: the crisis of corporate leadership
"Recent events suggest liberal capitalism harbours two dangerous seeds of self-destruction; growing inequality and a tendency for markets to spiral out of control. This book advocates the restoration to an earlier state of another sub-system of liberal capitalism, some of the features of which...
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Recent events suggest liberal capitalism harbours two dangerous seeds of self-destruction; growing inequality and a tendency for markets to spiral out of control. This book advocates the restoration to an earlier state of another sub-system of liberal capitalism, some of the features of which lie at the heart of liberal capitalisms malaise"--Provided by publisher. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 199 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780230230941 0230230946 |
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Autor: Lloyd, Tom
Jahr: 2010
Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Reference 11
PARTI What ails big business 13
1 What people want 15
Self-respect is a primary good 17
Free 19
Fair 20
Reasonable 21
Decent 24
Power and powerlessness 26
Good work 29
The argument so far 30
References 30
2 A feudal heritage 31
A cat ponders a king 31
Business is natural 32
Early trade 34
The precursors of companies 35
The English East India Company 37
From mercantilism to capitalism 39
The Industrial Revolution 41
An accidental birth 42
The birth environment 43
Medieval tournaments 45
The evolutionary puzzle 47
The argument so far 48
Box: Hudson s Bay Company 48
References 50
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The steam-age corporation 51
Why the MuBE emerged 52
Why the MuBE thrived 56
Chandler s contribution 66
The argument so far 67
Box: Vickers-Armstrongs 67
References 68
The decadent corporation 69
Justice as fairness 69
Growing inequality 72
More than fair shares 78
TARP restrictions on executive pay 79
The gathering storm 82
Barriers to reform 83
A dangerous decadence 85
The argument so far 86
References 87
Not so much greed 88
Greed 88
Asset-skimming 92
An unwholesome alliance 93
An unhappy coincidence 95
The cult of leadership 98
The buck and the bucks stop here 102
The argument so far 102
References 103
The myth of leadership 104
The CEO system 105
The management ideas market 107
The CEO as principal and conductor 109
Systemic risks 111
Fortunes from good fortune 114
The CEO as ambassador 115
Leaders and leadership 116
Progress report 119
The argument so far 119
References 120
PART II Reforming big business 121
7 Leaderless competitors 123
Roads not taken 124
A fractured landscape 127
Box: Patches on landscapes 128
Phase transition 130
The poverty of strategy 132
New roads 135
Linux 135
Wikipedia 139
Stewards, seeders, guardians 142
The argument so far 143
References 143
8 The adaptive challenge 145
The question of purpose 145
Soul and community 148
Too few women 150
Feminine management 153
The arrow and the spiral 156
The female advantage 157
Talent 157
Moderating macho 158
Risk 158
Ethics 158
Box: Ethics and gender 159
Pay 159
The promise of women 160
The argument so far 160
References
Size and shape 162
Real business 163
Small and local 164
Power with 165
Box: From an Acorn 167
The parasite s strategy 169
Partnership problems 170
Yielding power 174
x CONTENTS
Creative conversation 175
Partnership enterprise 176
The argument so far 177
References 177
10 Corporate reformation 178
The Individualized. Corporation 178
The regents committee 182
Corporate democracy 185
Numbers that nudge 187
Open-book management 188
Measuring CEO performance 190
Redeeming the corporation 191
Box: Semco s step to democracy 193
References 193
Index 194
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