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02972aam a2200373 i 4500 001 C27CD390FBB611EE91A57D0E3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240416010052 008 240208t20242024nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0393867234 020 $a 9780393867237 035 $a (OCoLC)1420357847 040 $a IMmBT $b eng $c BLP $e rda $d BLP $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d AZH $d TLK $d JQF $d OCLCQ $d IMT $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a HD60.5.U5 $b W55 2024 082 04 $a 658.4/08 $2 23/eng/20240205 100 1 $a Williams, Kyle Edward, $e author. 245 10 $a Taming the octopus : $b the long battle for the soul of the corporation / $c Kyle Edward Williams. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2024] 300 $a 290 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-278) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: What is the corporation good for? -- The new princes of industry -- The single and most serious danger -- Building the city of god -- Fighting for jobs -- "A bundle of assets" -- The rise of the corporate guerrilla fighter -- Making social responsibility corporate -- "There is no such thing as a corporate responsibility" -- Nothing to ask permission for -- Conclusion: Larry Fink, president of the world. 520 $a "In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his oft-forgotten contemporary, Henry Manne, whose theories justified the ruthless tactics of a growing class of corporate raiders. But Williams reveals that before the "activist investor" emerged as a capitalist archetype, Civil Rights groups used a similar playbook for different ends, buying shares to change a company from within.As a rising tide of activists pushed corporations to account for societal harms from napalm to environmental pollution to inequitable hiring, a new idea emerged: that managers could maximize value for society while still turning a maximal profit. This elusive ideal, "stakeholder capitalism," still dominates our headlines today. Williams's necessary history equips us to reconsider democracy's tangled relationship with capitalism."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Social responsibility of business $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Corporations $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Capitalism $z United States $x History. 650 6 $a Entreprises $x Histoire. $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 941 $a 3 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240502011052.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010402.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240416012032.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C27CD390FBB611EE91A57D0E3AECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search