This volume investigates how the shifting structures of modern public corporations necessitate a new framework for legal and organizational accountability. The authors, a collaborative group of legal scholars and social scientists, challenge the dominant institutionalist and contractarian theories that defined corporate analysis during the 1980s. By integrating perspectives from law, accounting, sociology, and economics, they argue that traditional regulatory models fail to address the complexities of contemporary corporate networks and group structures.

Experts recognize this volume as a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of corporate regulation. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which serves as a foundational text for those studying the evolution of corporate accountability structures.