The Business Corporation as a Political Actor

Project Information

CORPORATOCRACY

Grant agreement ID: 865165

DOI

10.3030/865165

Project closed

EC signature date 17 December 2019

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Expropriation as a measure of corporate reform: Learning from the Berlin initiative

Author(s): Philipp Stehr
Published in: European Journal of Political Theory, Issue 24, 2025, Page(s) 70-91, ISSN 1474-8851
Publisher: Sage Periodicals Press
DOI: 10.1177/14748851231197799

Corporate Purpose and Democratic Theory: A Governance Trilemma

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2025, ISSN 0167-4544
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-025-06127-1

The boundary problem in workplace democracy: who constitutes the corporate demos?

Author(s): Philipp Stehr
Published in: Political Theory, 2022, ISSN 0090-5917
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00905917221131821

Political Theories of the Business Corporation

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Philosophy Compass, Issue 18, 2022, ISSN 1747-9991
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12892

Elements for a Normative Theory of Privatization

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 17-135, ISSN 1876-9098
Publisher: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
DOI: 10.23941/ejpe.v16i2.821

Can business corporations be legally responsible for structural injustice? The social connection model in (legal) practice

Author(s): Barbara Bziuk
Published in: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2022, ISSN 1369-8230
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2120732

Productive freedom

Author(s): Tully Rector
Published in: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2023, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1369-8230
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2280885

Wealth Creation Without Domination. The Fiduciary Duties of Corporations

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2022, ISSN 1369-8230
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2113224

The Epistemology of Corporate Power: The Limits of the Firm–State Analogy

Author(s): Chi Kwok
Published in: Journal of Applied Philosophy, Issue 42, 2025, Page(s) 197-216, ISSN 0264-3758
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1111/japp.12748

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xii + 296, Hardcover $78.00. ISBN: 9780190698348

Author(s): Chi Kwok; Chi Kwok
Published in: Res Publica, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 401-406, ISSN 1356-4765
Publisher: Deborah Charles Publications for the Kent Law School
DOI: 10.1007/s11158-021-09526-z

What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization

Author(s): Ugur Aytac
Published in: Philosophy & Technology, Issue 38, 2025, ISSN 2210-5433
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00855-y

In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power

Author(s): Ugur Aytac
Published in: Political Theory, Issue 52, 2025, Page(s) 519-547, ISSN 0090-5917
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00905917231205624

The Corporate Power Trilemma

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Michael Bennett
Published in: Journal of Politics, Issue 84, 2022, ISSN 0022-3816
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1086/717851

The corporate social assessment: making public purpose pay

Author(s): Michael Bennett, Rutger Claassen
Published in: Review of Social Economy, Issue 82, 2024, Page(s) 147-175, ISSN 0034-6764
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2285266

Hobbes Meets the Modern Business Corporation

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Polity, Issue 53, 2021, Page(s) 101-131, ISSN 0032-3497
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1086/712231

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Democratizing Business Corporations

Author(s): null null, Philipp Heinrich Stehr
Published in: PhilArchive, 2024
Publisher: Utrecht University
DOI: 10.33540/2490

Other (21)

Geef burgers een rol in het beoordelen van bedrijven

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: NRC, 2021
Publisher: NRC

Veranker brede waardecratie bedrijven met meer zeggenschap stakeholders

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Dirk Schoenmaker
Published in: Economische Statistische Berichten, 2024, Page(s) 378-381
Publisher: ESB

Het is klaar met kapitalisme dat vooral de aandeelhouder dient

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Kees Cools
Published in: Volkskrant, 2021
Publisher: Volkskrant

Een 'social audit' dwingt tot ondernemen op maatschappelijke waarde

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Economische Statistische Berichten, 2021, Page(s) 130-133
Publisher: Economische Statistische Berichten

Corporate governance uitkleden is niet de oplossing

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Jeroen Veldman
Published in: Het Financieel Dagblad, 2024
Publisher: Het Financieel Dagblad

Kunnen bedrijven bloeien als we grenzen stellen aan rijkdom?

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Ingrid Robeyns
Published in: Vrij Nederland, 2024
Publisher: Vrij Nederland

Bedrijf moet niet alleen aandeelhouder dienen

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Dirk Schoenmaker, Jeroen Veldman
Published in: NRC Handelsblad, 2023, Page(s) 18-19
Publisher: NRC Handelsblad

Whitepaper: Sustainable by Design - Industrial Policy for Long-Term Competitiveness in the EU

Author(s): Marija Bartl, Rutger Claassen, Nena van der Horst, Bertram Lomfeld, Jennifer Hinton, Nien-hê Hsieh, Mario Pagano, Anne Sanders, Rasmus Kristian Feldthusen, Maike Kauffmann, Iñigo González-Ricoy, Lisa Herzog, Sara Lafuente, Jasper P. Sluijs, Toon Meelen, Björn Hoops, Sophie Bloemen
Published in: Sustainable by Design. Industrial Policy for Long-term Competitive in the EU, 2024, Page(s) 5-10
Publisher: Transnational Institute for Law, University of Amsterdam
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4972909

Can businesses flourish in a world with a cap on personal wealth?

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Ingrid Robeyns
Published in: Crooked Timber, 2024
Publisher: Crooked Timber

Een concurrentiestrijd om het publiek belang

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Markt & Mededinging, 2020, Page(s) 217-218
Publisher: Markt en Mededinging

Bedrijf moet waarde voor samenleving creëren’

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Dirk Schoenmaker
Published in: Het Financieel Dagblad, Issue 25, 2024
Publisher: Het Financieel Dagblad

Our corporate overlords

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Michael Bennett
Published in: The Journal of Politics Blogpost, 2022
Publisher: University of Hamburg

Ruim twee derde bedrijfswinsten is ten koste van mens en milieu

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Dirk Schoenmaker
Published in: Economische Statistische Berichten, 2024, Page(s) 468-471
Publisher: ESB

De legitimiteit van bedrijven in een liberale democratie. Een politiek-theoretische benadering

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Working Paper Serie van de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR), 2021
Publisher: de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR)

Ondernemersrisico als overheidsrisico’

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: mejudice.nl, 2020
Publisher: Mejudice

De lange, bochtige weg naar het stakeholderkapitalisme

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Jaarboek Corporate Governance 2022, 2022, Page(s) 109-122
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

MVO-beleid van Staatsdeelnemingen: voorbeel voor velen?

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Kamercomissie Financiën van de Tweede Kamer

Goed bedrijvenbeleid: Er is meer nodig dan normeren en beprijzen

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Jeroen Veldman
Published in: Mejudice.nl, 2024
Publisher: Mejudice

Economische democratie

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Idee, 2023, Page(s) 54-57
Publisher: Het Wetenschappelijk Bureau van D66

Nieuwe corporate governance code kan beter

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Peter Blom, Karen Maas
Published in: Mejudice.nl, 2022
Publisher: Mejudice

Geef China van katoen. Bedrijven als politiek activisten

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Groene Amsterdammer, 2021
Publisher: Groene Amsterdammer

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Introduction to Symposium on Jean-Philippe Robe, Property, Politics and Power

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Tully Rector
Published in: Journal of Law and Political Economy, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 558-563, ISSN 2693-9681
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.5070/lp63361619

Capital, Autonomy, and the Limits of Corporate Critique

Author(s): Tully Rector
Published in: Journal of Law and Political Economy, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 2693-9681
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.5070/lp63361149

Property: Authority Without Office?

Author(s): Rutger Claasen, Larissa Katz
Published in: Journal of Law and Political Economy, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 570-575, ISSN 2693-9681
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.5070/lp63361148

Abraham A. Singer: The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation

Author(s): Chi Kwok
Published in: Res Publica, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 401-406, ISSN 1356-4765
Publisher: Deborah Charles Publications for the Kent Law School
DOI: 10.1007/s11158-021-09526-z

Book chapters (3)

Het corporate-governancetrilemma voor de politieke onderneming

Author(s): Rutger Claassen
Published in: Corporate governance en het maatschappelijk belang, 2022, Page(s) 44-50, ISBN 978-90-826-3797-7
Publisher: ESB

Van aandeelhoudersondernemen naar maatschappelijk ondernemen

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Dirk Schoenmaker
Published in: Corporate governance en het maatschappelijk belang, 2022, Page(s) 8-13, ISBN 978-90-826-3797-7
Publisher: ESB

Taming the Corporate Leviathan. How to Properly Politicise Corporate Purpose?

Author(s): Rutgher Claassen, Michael Bennett
Published in: Wealth and Power. Philosophical Perspectives, 2022, Page(s) 145-165, ISBN 9781003173632
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003173632-1

Monographic books (1)

Corporate governance en het maatschappelijk belang

Author(s): Rutger Claassen, Dirk Schoenmaker
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-90-826-3797-7
Publisher: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Staathuishoudkunde