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Dynamic Corporate Purpose: Decentralizing The Choice Over Director Orientation, Fields Pierce
Dynamic Corporate Purpose: Decentralizing The Choice Over Director Orientation, Fields Pierce
Vanderbilt Law Review
The debate over corporate purpose has turned into a “gordian knot” where parties with entrenched beliefs about what the corporation should or should not be within society refuse to waver. There are inherent flaws with the governance models proposed by academics, politicians, and practitioners alike, so a novel method for setting and maintaining corporate purpose is required. This Note asks why there must be a one-size-fits-all approach to purpose and proposes a solution: dynamic corporate purpose.
This Note argues that states should not mandate all corporations hold the same corporate purpose but instead should use the logic of the public …