A constructive critique of the commercial corporation and ultimately an ambiguous agenda for change. Worthy of wide readership because it is also a carefully weighed historical reflection, and thus unlike the majority of books published in this genre.
Oxford Today Vol. 25 No. 2
A provocative book ... Mayer's critique of the modern corporation will resonate with millions ... Read morewho sense that something serious has gone amiss.
Bloomberg News
There is no shortage of reflections on the market failure in the West. [But this is] not just another fashionable tome on the topic. Rather, it is a solemn contemplation of the roots of corporations' defects. You can sense the seriousness of his thoughts in every line.
China Daily
A smart new book.
The Atlantic
An important book. It provides an impressive explanation of the state of things and a blueprint for converting the corporation into a 21st century organisation that could perhaps be trusted to promote the interests of economies and societies everywhere.
New Zealand Management
Mayer makes his case clearly and passionately.
Financial Times Summer Books Guide
An outspoken book ... This is not a theoretical debate but one of urgent importance for economies around the world.
GRC-Daily (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance)
The combination of theory and its commercial application comes through in this thoughtful study of the corporation. The analysis is quality.
Neil Hedges, Management Today
Blunt ... thoughtful ... thought-provoking.
Eric Krell, Business Finance Magazine
Lays out a plan for a radical rethink of the purpose of the corporation.
CSRwire.com
Lucid analysis
John Lloyd, Financial Times
Corporate governance is manifestly in crisis: in this lucid and truly important book Colin Mayer explains why. Not only should you read this book, so should governments.
Paul Collier, author of 'The Bottom Billion'
An impassioned and important plea for a reorientation of values in the modern corporation, offered by one of the world's leading scholars of corporate finance, ownership, and control.
Henry Hansmann, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Companies and wealth generation, as Professor Colin Mayer argues in his important book, are about co-creation, sharing risk and long-term trust relationships.
Will Hutton, The Observer
One lesson of the financial crisis is that the corporation which is a purely financial entity is a financial failure. Colin Mayer makes an important contribution to the rethinking of the nature of modern capitalism.
John Kay, Chairman, Kay Review of Equity Markets and Long Term Decision Making
Modern theory on incentives, ownership and control of large publicly-traded corporations is broken. In Firm Commitment, Colin Mayer makes a huge and thoughtful contribution to fixing the broken theory. I heartily endorse his prescriptions
values, trustees and time-based shares
which are at the same time practical and break-through. Anyone interested in the future of democratic capitalism should read this book.
Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto
Original and provocative, Colin Mayer's ideas on reforming the corporation deserve very serious attention.
John Roberts, Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of 'The Modern Firm'
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