The corporation in the 21st century : why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong / John Kay.

Kay, John, author

London : Profile Books, 2024.

442 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the 21st century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority. John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation - and describes how we have come to 'love the product' as we 'hate the producer'.

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