Description
"Shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world."
--Jack Welch
Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well, leading managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings; discouraging investment and innovation; harming employees, customers, and communities; and causing companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and irresponsible behaviors. And she looks at new models of corporate purpose that better serve the needs of investors, corporations, and society.
Author: Lynn Stout
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 05/07/2012
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.62w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781605098135
ISBN10: 1605098132
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Corporate Governance
- Business & Economics | Corporate Finance | General
- Business & Economics | Project Management
--Jack Welch
Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well, leading managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings; discouraging investment and innovation; harming employees, customers, and communities; and causing companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and irresponsible behaviors. And she looks at new models of corporate purpose that better serve the needs of investors, corporations, and society.
Author: Lynn Stout
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 05/07/2012
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.62w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781605098135
ISBN10: 1605098132
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Corporate Governance
- Business & Economics | Corporate Finance | General
- Business & Economics | Project Management
About the Author
Lynn Stout is the Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Clarke Business Law Institute, at Cornell Law School. Her work on corporate theory was cited by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in his dissent in Citizens United.