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- catalog abstract "In The American Corporation Today, Carl Kaysen and other leading students of business and markets from around the country provide a much-needed analysis of American corporate life at the end of the century. Here is the American corporation from every angle - its postwar history, its relation to the law, its financing, its impact on technological innovation, its role as employer and as political force, and much more. The contributors - all of whom are recognized experts. In their fields - not only tackle many of the same key areas that the contributors to Mason's classic study looked at, but they also illuminate issues that have only arisen in recent years. For instance, Raymond Vernon describes the increasing globalization of American business, where the net income from operations outside the U.S. is now nearly half of that from domestic operations (as opposed to one-tenth in the 1950s). James Q. Wilson traces how the corporation has. Become a full-time political actor, showing how it reinvented its political strategy and tactics in the 1960s in the face of a wave of new consumer, environmental, and worker health legislation. Gregory Acs and Eugene Steuerle show how the corporation promotes the commonweal, acting as agent for the employee in purchasing pension, health, and other welfare benefit plans, while Lester Thurow casts a critical eye at the decline of median real wages of American males over. The last twenty years (never before have a majority of American workers suffered real wage reductions while the real per capita gross domestic product was increasing). In other pieces, corporate finance experts Charles Calomiris and Carlos Ramirez advocate removing legal constraints on financial institutions that prevent them from providing the full range of business financing from short-term debt to equity, Michael Useem looks at the rise of education and training as a. Vexing corporate issue, and Barbara Bergmann discusses the increasingly diverse work force, arguing that ending bias is in the corporation's best interest. And finally Neil Harris provides a fascinating discussion of architecture, exploring how companies have become the principle patrons of important architecture since the 1950s.".
- catalog contributor b10047150.
- catalog contributor b10047151.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Become a full-time political actor, showing how it reinvented its political strategy and tactics in the 1960s in the face of a wave of new consumer, environmental, and worker health legislation. Gregory Acs and Eugene Steuerle show how the corporation promotes the commonweal, acting as agent for the employee in purchasing pension, health, and other welfare benefit plans, while Lester Thurow casts a critical eye at the decline of median real wages of American males over.".
- catalog description "In The American Corporation Today, Carl Kaysen and other leading students of business and markets from around the country provide a much-needed analysis of American corporate life at the end of the century. Here is the American corporation from every angle - its postwar history, its relation to the law, its financing, its impact on technological innovation, its role as employer and as political force, and much more. The contributors - all of whom are recognized experts.".
- catalog description "In their fields - not only tackle many of the same key areas that the contributors to Mason's classic study looked at, but they also illuminate issues that have only arisen in recent years. For instance, Raymond Vernon describes the increasing globalization of American business, where the net income from operations outside the U.S. is now nearly half of that from domestic operations (as opposed to one-tenth in the 1950s). James Q. Wilson traces how the corporation has.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction and overview / Carl Kaysen -- Rise and transformation of the American corporation / George David Smith, Davis Dyer -- How American is the American corporation? / Raymond Vernon -- From antitrust to corporation governance? The corporation and the law: 1959-1994 / Mark J. Roe -- Financing the American corporation: the changing menu of financial relationships / Charles W. Calomiris, Carlos D. Ramirez -- U.S. corporation and technical progress / David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson -- American corporation as an employer: past, present, and future possibilities / Thomas A. Kochan -- Corporation faces issues of race and gender / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Corporate education and training / Michael Useem -- Modern corporation as an efficiency instrument: the comparative contracting perspective / Oliver E. Williamson, Janet Bercovitz -- Corporation as a dispenser of welfare and security / Gregory Acs, Eugene Steuerle -- Almost everywhere: surging inequality and falling real wages / Lester Thurow -- Architecture and the business corporation / Neil Harris.".
- catalog description "The last twenty years (never before have a majority of American workers suffered real wage reductions while the real per capita gross domestic product was increasing). In other pieces, corporate finance experts Charles Calomiris and Carlos Ramirez advocate removing legal constraints on financial institutions that prevent them from providing the full range of business financing from short-term debt to equity, Michael Useem looks at the rise of education and training as a.".
- catalog description "Vexing corporate issue, and Barbara Bergmann discusses the increasingly diverse work force, arguing that ending bias is in the corporation's best interest. And finally Neil Harris provides a fascinating discussion of architecture, exploring how companies have become the principle patrons of important architecture since the 1950s.".
- catalog extent "x, 501 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195104927 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "338.7/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Corporations United States.".
- catalog subject "HD2785 .K34 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction and overview / Carl Kaysen -- Rise and transformation of the American corporation / George David Smith, Davis Dyer -- How American is the American corporation? / Raymond Vernon -- From antitrust to corporation governance? The corporation and the law: 1959-1994 / Mark J. Roe -- Financing the American corporation: the changing menu of financial relationships / Charles W. Calomiris, Carlos D. Ramirez -- U.S. corporation and technical progress / David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson -- American corporation as an employer: past, present, and future possibilities / Thomas A. Kochan -- Corporation faces issues of race and gender / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Corporate education and training / Michael Useem -- Modern corporation as an efficiency instrument: the comparative contracting perspective / Oliver E. Williamson, Janet Bercovitz -- Corporation as a dispenser of welfare and security / Gregory Acs, Eugene Steuerle -- Almost everywhere: surging inequality and falling real wages / Lester Thurow -- Architecture and the business corporation / Neil Harris.".
- catalog title "The American corporation today / edited by Carl Kaysen.".
- catalog type "text".