TY - BOOK AU - Ferreras, Isabelle TI - Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism SN - 9781108402521 U1 - 338.74 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Corporate Governance - Industrial Management KW - Capitalism - Social Aspects N1 - Part I: Critical History of Power in the Firm: The Slow Transition of Work from the Private to the Public Sphere 1. Stage One: the workplace and its emergence from the household 2. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries: workers' movements and the invention of collective bargaining 3. The twentieth century and the ambiguities of institutional innovations in the capitalist firm 4. The twenty-first century service economy is bringing work fully into the public sphere; Part II: What Is a Firm? 5. Obsolete vision: instrumental rationality as the firm's sole logic 6. Foundations for the political theory of the firm; Part III: Looking to the Future: From Political Bicameralism to Economic Bicameralism 7. Bicameral movements: a pivotal institutional innovation for governments in democratic transition 8. Analogy: the executive of the firm answering to a two-chamber parliament ER -