Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2010
Keywords
crisis, rescue, 122(12), Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, fiduciary exemption
Abstract
This chapter discusses the legal issues of rescue and corporate social responsibility during times of public crisis. It analyzes a corporate board’s fiduciary duty related to the management of a public crisis and the provision of aid to government and the public. The thesis is that American corporate law adequately provides corporate boards authority to assume broad principles of corporate social responsibility, and that during a public crisis this authority is specially recognized in the enabling statutes of corporate law and should be broadened even further to pursue the public good in exigent circumstances.
Disciplines
Business Organizations Law
Digital Commons Citation
Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis. William Sun, ed. Emerald Publishing Group, 2010.