Corporate Lawyers and the Public Interest

Industrial Development Policy Discussion Paper 14 Corporate Governance and the Public Interest

Recent developments in understanding the theory and impact of the firm imply new insights into the policy significance of corporate governance. Unlike a market centred approach, a theory based on strategic decision making highlights the form of governance as a central determinant of people's wellbeing. To govern a corporation is to make its strategic decisions and therefore determine its broad ...

PUBLIC INTEREST AND PRIVATE POLICY: THE CASE OF IMPLEMENTING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN DUTCH INDUSTRY Prof.dr

An increasing number of firms with a foothold in the Netherlands try to implement ‘corporate social responsibility’. This article considers these efforts in the light of the changing relation between the state and society. It analyses the processes of learning that were induced by the programme ‘From financial to sustainable profit’ of the Dutch National Initiative for Sustainable Development (...

Regulation and the Public Interest

The increase in government regulation during the 1960s and 1970s is examined, as well as showing the importance of understanding the benefit/cost ratio of regulation.

Hospitals and the public interest.

In the public interest?

Restrictive patenting and licensing for cell-free fetal DNA testing has serious consequences for technology advances and benefits to public health.