Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-10-2015
Abstract
American social and political discourse attests to widespread concern about whether domestic corporations can be counted on to serve the national interest. This issue is especially pressing in an era of international corporate operations, in which firms can send jobs and tax revenues overseas, devastating local communities even as they boost the prospects of workers in a foreign land, and the interests of capital spread across the globe. Firms founded in America can also disperse across the border productive resources that could otherwise be nationalized or made available to the homeland in times of crisis or war. Indeed, the shareholder primacy norm at the heart of American corporate governance law may compel directors to do these things, or at least consider doing them. This article assesses the legal status and normative desirability of corporate patriotism.
Automated Citation
David Yosifon,
Is Corporate Patriotism a Virtue?
(2015),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/879
Comments
Forthcoming in Santa Clara Journal of International Law.