Corporate Ordering : How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict

This book is for readers interested in how major corporations shape society when business decisions affect speech, safety, climate, and technology. It uses real-world examples to offer a clear framework for understanding corporate power, governance, and accountability in a polarized world.

Corporate Ordering explains how modern corporations navigate social conflict when law is incomplete, politics are polarized, and shareholders disagree about corporate purpose. Drawing on original case studies from ridesharing, climate sustainability, and artificial intelligence companies, the book reveals the internal governance systems corporations use to set standards, justify decisions, and monitor their impact. Moving beyond the familiar debates between shareholder primacy and stakeholder capitalism, the book offers a clear framework for understanding how corporate power actually operates in practice. Written for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and informed general readers, it provides a timely guide to corporate governance in a world where business decisions increasingly function as social policy.