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Benefit Corporations: A Proposal For Assessing Liability In Benefit Enforcement Proceedings, Jaime Lee
Benefit Corporations: A Proposal For Assessing Liability In Benefit Enforcement Proceedings, Jaime Lee
Cornell Law Review
There has been a growing trend of more socially conscious consumption as a new generation of consumers and business leaders rises to the forefront. This trend has elicited a response from existing corporations and entrepreneurs starting new businesses such that socially-minded goals are taken into account in addition to profit-maximizing goals. Because the traditional corporation models restricted the ability of businesses to serve both socially-conscious and profit-maximizing goals simultaneously, new "fourth sector" corporations that combine aspects of the traditional for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors have been increasing in number. The most notable of these "fourth sector" corporations are benefit corporations, …