Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Additional Lecture To Be Announced
There is broad consensus in the US that monopolistic corporations have grown too powerful and that we need to revive antitrust to take on the “curse of bigness.” But information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the operations of our economy in ways that undermine the basic categories we use to understand it. Nationality, industry, firm, size, employee, and other fundamental terms are increasingly perplexing. If we want to understand and tame the new sources of economic power, we need a new diagnosis and a new set of tools. This session will describe the forces shaping corporate power in America today, and where we might go next.
Jerry Davis
Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Jerry Davis received his PhD from Stanford and taught at Northwestern and Columbia before moving to the University of Michigan, where he is Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Sociology. His books include Social Movements and Organization Theory (2005); Organizations and Organizing (2007); Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America (2009); Changing your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs (2015); The Vanishing American Corporation (2016); and Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century (2022). His recent teaching focuses on the changing shape of the American corporation and alternative ways to organize the economy and create equitable enterprises.