图书简介

List of Figure; List of Tables; Chapter One: Introduction; The Public Company Transformed -- a Brief Chronology; This Book’s Contribution; Iconic Public Companies Transformed; AT&T; General Electric; Overview of the Book; Chapter Two: Managerial Capitalism; Key Features; The Rise of Managerial Capitalism; Financial Capitalism Emerges; Financial Capitalism in Retreat; When Did Ownership Separate From Control in Large Public Companies?; Why Did Ownership Separate from Control?; Managerial Capitalism in Operation; The Core Fissure in US Corporate Governance; How Much Personal Gain?; Other Goals?; What Constrained Management?; Internal Constraints; External Constraints; Chapter Three -- The 1970s: Managerial Capitalism Sustained But Something Happened; Continuity and Change; Were the Public Company’s Days Numbered?; Managerial Capitalism Falters; American Management Falling Behind?; The Conglomerate Crack-Up; Illicit Payments; Internal Constraints; Shareholders; Boards; External Constraints; Regulation; Unions; Competitors; The Market for Corporate Control; Chapter Four -- The 1980s: Managerial Capitalism Taken Over; Don’t Just Manage - Lead!; The Deal Decade; Takeovers; Leveraged Buyouts; End of an Era; Internal Constraints; Boards; Shareholders; External Constraints; Regulation; Unions; Competitors; The Public Company Executive in Transition; Chapter Five -- The 1990s: Gloom to Euphoria and Back; From Stagnation to Overdrive to Hangover; America Falling Behind?; Rallying; Overdrive; Hangover; Internal Constraints; A Governance Vacuum; Boards; Shareholders; External Constraints; Unions; Regulation; Competitors; The CEO as Corporate Icon; Chapter Six: The 2000s: The Decade From Hell; Changing Circumstances for the Public Company; The Public Company’s Challenges; Corporate Scandals; SOX; Private Equity; The Financial Crisis; Internal Constraints; Boards; Shareholders; External Constraints; The Market for Corporate Control; Unions; Regulation; Competitors; The Retreat of the Iconic Chief Executive; Banks, Their Free Pass and the Financial Crisis; Chapter Seven: The Future of the Public Company; Extinction of the Public Company?; What’s New?; Private Equity; Unicorns and IPOs; The Public Company Retains Center Stage; The End of the Berle-Means Corporation?; Internal Constraints; Boards; Shareholders; External Constraints; Unions; Regulation; Competitors; What Does the Future Hold for Public Company Executives?; CEO/Founders; Return of the Imperial CEO?; Embattled?; Managerial Capitalism Redux?; Index

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