Welcome to The Spiral Path

Welcome! I am pleased to let you know this blog has a new name – The Spiral Path chriscurnow.com has been going through a revamp over the last few months. You may have notice that typing chriiscunow.com into your browser took you to a website about me. I am...

Agency Theory and Shareholder Value

At the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the warm and fuzzy Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility are the cold hard Agency Theory and ‘Shareholder Value’ approaches Agency Theory Agency theory first arose in the 1970s and was apparently...

Origins of CSR and Stakeholder Theory

Origins and development of Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory I’ve wondered for a long time how the belief in Shareholder Value came to dominate corporate thinking. I started reading around this topic to try to understand how this came to be....

A brief history of the corporation

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how corporations came to be and how they came to be so powerful. There is nothing wrong in my mind with powerful corporations. More important is how they exercise their power and what moral, ethical and legal power we have...