Managers vs. Owners: The Struggle for Corporate Control in American Democracy

by Lawrence Zacharias, Allen Kaufman, Marvin Karson

Book Overview

This book deals with a subject of profound importance to understanding the place of the modern corporation in a democratic society. This is the inherent conflicts between the interest of corporate owners (the shareholders), the interest of the larger society, and the interest of the managers who run the corporations. Managers have created a shared professional ideology that is designed to preserve their autonomy. To protect itself from unbridled corporate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098609
• ISBN13: 9780195098600
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"