Not everything is about investors: the case for mandatory stakeholder disclosure

AM Lipton - Yale J. on Reg., 2020 - HeinOnline
The corporate form confers upon its organizers the ability to aggregate tremendous amounts
of wealth while limiting the liability of investors for any harms that the corporation inflicts. As …

Choose your own master: Social enterprise, certifications, and benefit corporation statutes

J Murray - Am. U. Bus. L. Rev., 2012 - HeinOnline
Patagonia, Inc., opens his book, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant
Businessman, with these words: I've been a businessman for almost fifty years. It's as difficult …

Caremark and ESG, Perfect Together: A Practical Approach to Implementing an Integrated, Efficient, and Effective Caremark and EESG Strategy

LE Strine Jr, KM Smith, RS Steel - Iowa L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
With increased calls from investors, legislators, and academics for corporations to consider
employee, environmental, social, and governance factors (" EESG") when making decisions …

Conservative Collision Course: The Tension between Conservative Corporate Law Theory and Citizens United

LE Strine Jr, N Walter - Cornell L. Rev., 2014 - HeinOnline
Since the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC'there has been vigorous
debate about the wisdom of that decision, both as a matter of constitutional interpretation …

Dynamic disclosure: An exposé on the mythical divide between voluntary and mandatory ESG disclosure

LM Fairfax - Tex. L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
March 21, 2022, represented a watershed moment in the history of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the SEC). On that day, for the first time in its history, the SEC …

Negating the legal problem of having two masters: A framework for L3C fiduciary duties and accountability

J Tyler - Vt. L. Rev., 2010 - HeinOnline
The low-profit limited liability company (L3C) is a new business form that unites in one
enterprise two principles often considered irreconcilably in competition with each other …

Reconceptualizing the Theory of the Firm-from Nature to Function

M Petrin - Penn St. L. Rev., 2013 - HeinOnline
What is the" firm"? This Article revisits and explores the theory of the firm and corporate
personhood and shows how the century-old discourse in this area still firmly shapes how …

Shareholder primacy in corporate law: can it survive? Should it survive?

A Keay - 2010 - degruyter.com
The dominant theory in Anglo-American jurisdictions, as far as determining the objective of
large public corporations, has been, certainly since the 1970s, the shareholder primacy …

Social enterprise as commitment: A roadmap

AE Plerhoples - Wash. UJL & Pol'y, 2015 - HeinOnline
When launching a social enterprise, the budding entrepreneur has an expansive menu of for-
profit entity options to fuse social mission with revenue-producing commercial activities. She …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Shareholder Primacy

AM Lipton - Case W. Res. L. Rev., 2018 - HeinOnline
In January 2013, activist investor Potomac Capital Partners took a stake in a company called
PLX Technology and, via a series of open letters, urged it to find an acquirer.'When the …