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Thomas Clarke is a professor of management and director of the Centre for Corporate Governance at the University of Technology Sydney. He is known for his extensive research on corporate governance, business ethics, and organizational sustainability.
Known for: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
This book examines the evolution, governance, and social responsibilities of corporations in the modern global economy. It explores how corporate structures and strategies must adapt to technological change, environmental challenges, and shifting stakeholder expectations in the twenty-first century.
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The Origins and Development of Corporate Forms
To understand the corporation’s transformation, we must first recognize its deep historical roots. The modern corporation arose not as a natural economic organism, but as a legal fiction — an invention of the industrial and mercantile imagination. From the eighteenth-century joint-stock companies th...
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The Rise of Corporate Governance and the Reign of Shareholder Primacy
In the twentieth century, corporate governance emerged as a response to the dispersion of ownership and control. As shareholders became distant and managerial elites consolidated power, debates raged over whose interests corporations should serve. The prevailing answer, crystallized through decades ...
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Thomas Clarke is a professor of management and director of the Centre for Corporate Governance at the University of Technology Sydney. He is known for his extensive research on corporate governance, business ethics, and organizational sustainability.
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