Values-Primacy & Total Governance Through Activism, by Carliss Chatman and Sergio Gramitto Ricci, argues that everyday stakeholder actions—walkouts, boycotts, consumer backlash, viral campaigns, and proxy voting—function as a real, if often unacknowledged, system of corporate governance. When individuals coordinate across their multiple social roles (worker, consumer, investor, community member), they shape corporate identity more durably […]
As I get older, I (James McRitchie) reflect on where some of my thoughts on corporate governance originated, especially as I lament not only our lack of progress but also our recent backsliding. Where did I/we go wrong? Nell Minow’s Keynote to ICGN this year prompted more such reflections and offers rays of hope. (more…)
Sociological Imagination: Origin C. Wright Mills coined the term sociological imagination to describe the ability to “think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life.” I’m trivializing disciplines, but whereas psychology delves mostly into issues of the individual — how they develop and fit into society — sociology addresses wider issues involved with entire […]