By Norman E. Bowie
ISBN-10: 0631221239
ISBN-13: 9780631221234
The Blackwell consultant to company Ethics, written by way of foreign specialists within the box, acquaints the reader with theoretical and pedagogical concerns, moral matters within the perform of industrial and intriguing new instructions within the box.
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Thus, the distribution of social costs is, to some extent, built into structure of a firm. Furthermore, it should matter little, from a theoretical point of view, whether costs are externalized or internalized. If internalized costs are passed along to consumers in higher prices, for example, then consumers still bear the costs. The problem with externalization is that it leads to an inefficient utilization of resources. The objection, then, is not that firms create externalities but that they impose social costs that reduce efficiency and are distributed unfairly.
They serve primarily to prevent directors and top managers from abusing their position to enrich themselves and others (Clark, 1985), and in this role fiduciary duties benefit all constituencies. Although suit can be brought for breaches of fiduciary duties, their enforcement depends less on legal sanctions than on moral force. In general, a party to an explicit contract has a stronger legal claim that the beneficiary of a fiduciary duty. The main value of fiduciary duties is to create an open-ended obligation to act in the interest of another in situations where precisely stated obligations are not possible.
Hansmann 1996) concedes that American shareholders are not very effective monitors, but argues that investor ownership is still better than the alternatives because it assures everyone that somebody else's interests will not be primary. In addition, Hansmann observes, there is extensive regulation in the USA, such as accounting standards and securities law, as well as an active press, all of which leads managers to act in the shareholders' interest. Second, investors with a claim on the residual, which is to say equity capital providers, are commonly regarded as the group that can make decisions at the lowest cost.
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