The Standard Shareholder-Oriented Model (SSM) is alive and well

The SSM is the dominant ideology, or global normative standard, of corporate governance in this period, and is likely to remain so absent a cataclysmic event that reverses the economic progress of globalization. In particular, the SSM is more likely to succeed than the four most familiar alternatives: the labor-oriented model, the state-oriented model, the manager-oriented model, and the common phenomenon--if not the model--of controlling shareholders empowered to manage corporations free of strong legal protections for minority shareholders.

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