Online Program
Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 357 | Submission: 11726 | Sponsor(s): (OMT, CMS, MH, SIM)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 10 2019 10:00AM - 11:30AM at Boston Hynes Convention Center in 303
 
The Fall and Rise of Corporate Forms: Post-Corporate Futures and Corporate Alternatives
The Fall and Rise of Corporate Forms
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Panelist: Paul S. Adler, U. of Southern California
Panelist: Gerald F. Davis, U. of Michigan
Panelist: Joel Gehman, U. of Alberta
Organizer: Stephan Leixnering, WU Vienna
Organizer: Kevin Levillain, Mines ParisTech
Panelist: Renate Elisabeth Meyer, WU Vienna & Copenhagen Business School
Organizer: Blanche Segrestin, Mines ParisTech
Panelist: Blanche Segrestin, Mines ParisTech
Organizer: Jeroen Veldman, Cass Business School, City U. of London
The corporation has been guiding thinking of economic organization for more than a century. Today, however, it stands at a crossroads. As economic, social, and environmental failures of capitalism are widely identified as structural deficits associated with the corporation, scholars are developing post-corporate scenarios for economic organization, such as digital platforms or local communities (Davis, 2016a, 2016b). Other responses continue to draw on the corporate form, seeking to improve it. Alternative forms of corporations, such as Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations, have emerged to integrate social and environmental objectives into the corporate agenda (Gehman & Grimes, 2017). Building upon this model, the French government is about to redefine the corporate purpose by highlighting the responsibility to pursue social or environmental innovation as part of the raison d’être of corporations (Segrestin, Levillain, & Hatchuel, 2018). These new developments follow the Germanic example, where the purpose of the corporation has always included the pursuit of the public interest – a feature that is clearly missing in prevailing understandings of the modern corporation (Leixnering, Meyer, & Doralt, 2018; Veldman et al., 2016). Integrating different perspectives on post-corporate scenarios as well as corporate alternatives, this PDW discusses whether the future of economic organization will still be guided by corporate forms or rather turn out as post-corporate. Doing so, it invites panelists and participants to reflect on the role and theory of the corporation, and how these shape our modern economies as well as our societies (Adler, forthcoming).
  
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