"This book provides a critical and comparative approach to corporate governance. The book sets out, and makes a case for what the author terms 'progressive corporate governance', in order to promote an approach to corporations which furthers social progress. The book takes a hybrid approach in...

1. Progressive thought and the historical emergence of the company in England 1770-1900 -- 2. Corporate governance in the United Kingdom in the 20th century : including a period of progressive governance -- 3. The United States and progressive governance : the historical development of the...