Background
Chamberlain, Neil Cornelius Wolverton was born on May 18, 1915 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Henry Bryan and Elizabeth (Wolverton) Chamberlain.
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First full-length, objective analysis of the nature of social responsibility in nation-wide labor conflicts and the influence public opinion may exert toward the settlement of "public emergency" strikes.
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This new work by Neil W. Chamberlain will be of great importance to the business community -- and to all those charged with defining the role large corporations play in the affairs of society. "Social Strategy and Corporate Structure" is an objective, indepth examination of the organizational requirements of a social role for large-scale business. The role Neil Chamberlain presents is one of heroic dimensions: the political choice of goals, the strategic allocation of resources, and the tactical operations of the mechanisms of production. While there has been much discussion of corporate social responsibility, few have investigated the ways its structure will have to change if the corporation is to pursue a strategy that is both economic and social. This timely book integrates a large number of issues involving corporate activities and governance that go directly to the heart of this problem. In step-by-step detail, Chamberlain analyzes the organizational imperatives of this new age of social responsibility: the composition and functions of boards of directors and the relation of their duties to a broad system of national planning; the internal social audit; changes in the characteristics of corporate social planning; and proposals for restructuring ultimate corporate authority, either through public or outside directors. In addition, he examines the potential relevance of federal chartering of corporations, and the effects of international economic interdependence on the development of a new corporate social strategy. This book is not a detailed blueprint for change. Rather, it presents a thorough, systematic study of available courses of action for improvement,based on the principle that conventional notions of corporate independence will have to be modified for any social strategy to work. And while not everyone will agree with Neil Chamberlain, few can afford to ignore his provocative insights into what corporations must do to function effectively in a changed social environment.
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Chamberlain, Neil Cornelius Wolverton was born on May 18, 1915 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Henry Bryan and Elizabeth (Wolverton) Chamberlain.
AB, Western Reserve University, 1937. Master of Arts, Western Reserve University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1942.
Research fellow Brookings Institution, 1941—1942. Research director Labor and Management Center, Yale, 1946—1949, assistant director, 1949—1954. Assistant professor economics Yale, 1947—1949, associate professor, 1949—1954, professor economics, 1959—1967, Columbia, 1954—1959, 1967—1980, Armand G. Erpf professor of modern corporation, 1969—1980, professor emeritus, from 1981.
Director program in Economic Development and Administration Ford Foundation, 1957-1960.
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Author: Collective Bargaining Procedures, 1944, The Union Challenge to Management Control, 1948, Management in Motion, 1950, Collective Bargaining, 1951, review, 1965, 3d edition, 1986, Social Responsibility and Strikes, 1953, The Impact of Strikes, 1954, A General Theory of Economic Process, 1955, Labor, 1958, Source-book on Labor, 1958, The Firm: Micro- Economic Planning and Action, 1962, The West in a World Without War, 1963, The Labor Sector, 1965, review, 1971, 80, Private and Public Planning, 1965, Enterprise and Environment, 1968, Beyond Malthus, 1970, The Place of Business in America's Future: A Study in Social Values, 1973, The Limits of Corporate Responsibility, 1973, Remaking American Values: Challenge to a Business Society, 1977, Forces of Change in Western Europe, 1980, Social Strategy and Corporate Structure, 1982, Intellectual Odyssey: An Economist's Ideological Journey, 1996. Editor: Contemporary Economic Issues, 1969, review, 1978, Business and the Cities, 1970. Co-editor: Cases on Labor Relations, 1949, A Decade of Industrial Relations Research, 1958, Frontiers of Collective Bargaining, 1968.Member editorial board, editorial consultant: Management Internat, 1960-1970. Board editors: American Economic Rev, 1957-1959.
The development and elaboration of certain concepts permitting the blending of institutional and social analysis with economic theory. These include aspects of collective bargaining and bargaining power. Economic counterpoint (the necessary simultaneous tendencies towards equilibrium and disequilibrium, within both firm and economy).
The interplay between technical-economic and politicalorganisation co-ordination within the firm and economy. Ingredients of economic planning, and the nature and role of social values in economic systems.
Board directors Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1957-1978. Trustee Columbia Journal World Business, 1969-1972, 75-80. Served from ensign to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946.
Member of Industrial Relations Research Association (executive board 1955-1958, president 1967, Lifetime Achievement award 2003), American Economic Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mariam Kenosian, June 27, 1942 (divorced June 1967). Married Harriet Feigenbaum, August 9, 1968.