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In The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong, John Kay provides a novel perspective on the evolution of the contemporary corporation.
One of the UK’s leading economists, Kay is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He was the first dean of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and has held chairs at London Business School, the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics and director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Kay discusses the essence of the modern corporation, the changing relationship of capital and labour, the gap between the our historic concept of the corporation and the current reality and the forces that have and will further shape the corporation including sustainability, geopolitics, and technology.
Key topics discussed:
01:56 | The essence of a 21st century corporation
05:53 | The changing roles of workers and capital
12:26 | Limits to corporate scale
16:00 | Forces that will shape the future of corporations sustainability, geopolitics, technology
21:50 | The impact of AI on the nature of the corporation
24:12 | Implications for managers
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