Shareholder wealth maximization and social welfare: A utilitarian critique

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-238

  Jones, Thomas M ^a   Felps, Will ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate objective function; Normative corporate governance; Shareholder wealth maximization (SWM); Social welfare; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880426655     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201323215     Document Type: Article

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