Joel Bakan’s The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power shines a bright light on the nature, costs, benefits and behaviour of a curious creation of the 20th century— the modern, for-profit public shareholding company. Even if we do not buy into the by now notorious central metaphor of the book—of the corporation as a psychopathic personality—we are still led by Bakan’s examples and the tenacity of his gaze to new insights about the strange ways in which responsibility travels in the social…
Mihnea Moldoveanu
Mihnea Moldoveanu is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the CCMF Centre for Integrative Thinking at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.