05178cam a2200505 i 4500 682 MYCC 20260205093548.0 t| 240529s2024 ctua b 001 0 eng c 2024939696 9780300280197 hardback : alk. paper 9780300285505 paperback (OCoLC)1464697576 (DLC)23711989 IG# eng rda IG# YDX BDX YUS OCLCO EEM BTS SJD EEM IBI DLC DLC-MRC DLC MYCC pcc HD2731 .K38 2024 23 338.740973 Kay, J. A. (John Anderson) author http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77004444 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n77004444 The Corporation In the 21st Century : Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong / John Kay. Corporation In the Twenty-First Century : Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2024. ©2024 6 unnumbered, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt unmediated n http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n volume nc http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc illustrations http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/millus/ill bibliography bibliography http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/bibliography index index http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/index Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-428) and index. Introduction: business in society -- Part I: The background -- 1. Love the product, hate the producer -- 2. A history of pharmaceuticals: a case for treatment -- 3. Economic motivation-- Part 2: A brief history of business -- 4. The mechanical firm -- 5. The rise of manufacturing -- 6. The rise of corporations -- 7. Changing fortunes -- 8. The decline of manufacturing -- Part 3: The secret of our success -- 9. Better at everything -- 10. Better at business -- 11. Value -- 12. Stanley Matthews changes trains -- Part 4: The age of individualism -- 13. Money can't buy you love -- 14. Or perhaps it can: the modern theory of the firm -- 15. The myth of ownership -- 16. Must companies maximise profits? -- 17. Leaky pipes and overflowing sewage -- 18. The dumbest idea in the world -- Part 5: How it all worked out -- 19. The evolution of finance -- 20. The art of the deal -- 21. Not a pretty picture -- 22. The fall of the icons -- 23. The finance curse -- Part 6: The corporations in the twenty-first century -- 24. Combinations and capabilities -- 25. A letter from Arnold Weinstock -- 26. The MacNeil returns to Barra -- 27. The hollow corporation -- Part 7: Capital in the twenty-first century -- 28. Capital as a service -- 29. Capital and wealth -- 30. Who are the capitalists now? -- 31. In search of capital -- Part 8: The best of times, the worst of times -- 32. Ambiguity is a feature, not a bug -- 22. After capitalism. "In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century. But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority. John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation--and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists." --Publisher's description. Corporations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85032928 21st century. Business enterprises http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018285 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/23711989 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/23711989 DLC bibframe2marc v2.9.0 20250311082850.0 DLC https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/releases/tag/v2.9.0 7 cbc pccadap 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 MYCCLIB MYCCLIB GEN 2026-02-05 0 338.740973 KAY 2024 11131 2026-02-05 09:37:26 2026-02-05 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 MYCCLIB MYCCLIB REF 2026-02-05 0 338.740973 KAY 2024 REF 11130 2026-02-05 09:37:26 2026-02-05 REF 682 682