C Mayer

Biographic Data

ID7625
NAMEC Mayer
GIVEN NAMESC
FAMILY NAMEMayer
SIGNATUREMAYER C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0002-6292-2065
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS69
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1928
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Understanding Corporate Purpose: Bringing Clarity to Corporate Purpose, Success and Law

    Open AccessC MayerARTICLEVictoria University of Wellington…2025

    We have misconceived the nature of the fundamental driver of a business, namely its profit. We do not account for its "true costs" and therefore do not report its "fair profits". Categorising this as a market failure arising from "externalities" has resulted in wrong policy prescriptions regarding competition and regulation to address the problem. Instead, we should recognise it as a failure to define the purpose of a business appropriately. Corp…

  • Monetary impact valuation for sustainable business

    Open AccessLaura Marie Edinger‐schon, Judith C Stroehle et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025References: 2

  • Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them

    C MayerBOOKCapitalism and Crises2023

    The world is encountering multiple crises—climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics. This book is about how capitalism can fix them—how it can solve not cause them. The reason why it has caused them is that we have misconceived the nature of our capitalist system. We have failed to understand the key institution at the heart of it—business—and as a result we have allowed it to cause as well as solve problems. This book describes why …

  • Are Moral Firms Committed Firms

    Open AccessC MayerARTICLEDaedalus2023

    Corporate purpose is everywhere, but will it stay? Is it a business revolution or a passing fad, destined to go the way of so many business concepts? Reliance on the good judgment and goodwill of corporate leaders is a justifiable cause for concern, and resort is often sought instead in the apparently safe harbor of public regulation. But reliance should not be placed on governments and regulators alone to constrain the corporate giants in the fa…

  • What Is Wrong with Corporate Law? The Purpose of Law and the Law of Purpose

    C MayerARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2022References: 2

    Corporate purpose should be at the heart of corporate law. This article addresses objections that corporate law already permits firms to determine their purposes, and companies would not in any event do more than at present in formulating their purposes. It argues, first, that critics of the law of corporate purpose have failed to recognize that purpose can address divergences of private interests of corporations from public interests of society …

  • La France et les pays anglo-saxons face au développement de la gestion

    Daniel Atlan, Alain Burlaud et al.ARTICLEEntreprises et histoire2012

    International audience

  • Können Öko-Siegel einen neuen Handlungsspielraum für kleinbäuerliche Kaffeproduzenten schaffen: Das Beispiel Costa Rica

    Open AccessC MayerARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2003

    Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat das Bestreben, soziale und ökologische Aspekte stärker in den Weltkaffeehandel zu integrieren, bedeutend zugenommen. Zum Einen, um die weltweit stetig wachsende Armut der Kaffeebauern und zum Anderen, um die ökologische Belastung beim Kaffeeanbau zu mindern. Es entstanden Öko-Siegel, die über die Vermittlung neuer Nachfrageimpulse nach ökologisch erzeugtem Kaffee einen Lösungsbeitrag für die Dilemmasituation des Verarmung…

  • Corporate Governance, Competition, and Performance

    Open AccessC MayerARTICLEJournal of Law and Society1997

    The paper gives an overview of the interrelation between corporate governance, product market competition and performance across main "models" of corporate governance in OECD countries. The paper argues that managerial incentives, disciplining and corporate finance are not the fundamental distinguishing features of different financial systems. Instead, differences in ownership and control emerge as important influences on the formulation, impleme…

  • Entrepreneurship, Management, and the Structure of Payoffs

    C Mayer, William J BaumolARTICLEThe Economic Journal1996Cited by: 15

    Journal Article Entrepreneurship, Management, and the Structure of Payoffs Get access Entrepreneurship, Management, and the Structure of Payoffs. By (William J.) Baumol (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. xi+311 £26.95. hardback. ISBN 0 262 02360 1.) Colin Mayer Colin Mayer University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 21…

  • Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation

    David Cobham, C Mayer et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1994Cited by: 9

    Journal Article Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation Get access Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation. Edited by Mayer (Colin) and Vives (Xavier). (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xx + 357. £29.95 hardback, US $54.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 44397 0.) David Cobham David Cobham University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104,…

  • European Financial Integration

    Eric J Pentecost, Alberto Giovanni et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1992Cited by: 7

    Journal Article European Financial Integration Get access European Financial Integration. Edited by GIOVANNINI (ALBERTO) and MAYER (COLIN). (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi + 348. £30.00 hardback. US $49.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 40244 1.) Eric J. Pentecost Eric J. Pentecost University of Loughborough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 41…

  • Risk, Regulation and Investor Protection: The Case of Investment Management

    Charles Goodhart, C A E Goodhart et al.ARTICLEEconomica1990

  • The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US

    C Mayer, Denis SwannARTICLEThe Economic Journal1989Cited by: 12

    Journal Article The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US Get access The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US. By DENIS SWANN. (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988. Pp. xv + 344. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7450 0152 1.) Colin Mayer Colin Mayer City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99…

  • Deregulation and the State in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Telecommunications

    Valerie Rubsamen, Word$$ Derthick et al.ARTICLEComparative Politics1989Cited by: 2

  • Private Saving and Public Debt

    C Mayer, Michael H Boskin et al.ARTICLEEconomica1988

  • Privatisation and Regulation: The UK Experience

    G K Shaw, John Kay et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1987Cited by: 18

    Journal Article Privatisation and Regulation: The UK Experience Get access Privatisation and Regulation: The UK Experience. Edited by JOHN KAY, COLIN MAYER and DAVID THOMPSON. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 352. à £25.00 hardback, à £9.95 paperback.) G. K. Shaw G. K. Shaw University of Buckingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 387, 1 September 1987, Pages…

  • On the Application of Accounting Rates of Return

    John Kay, J A Kay et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1986Cited by: 5References: 2

    Journal Article On the Application of Accounting Rates of Return Get access J. A. Kay, J. A. Kay The Institute for Fiscal Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar C. P. Mayer C. P. Mayer The Institute for Fiscal Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 381, 1 March 1986, Pages 199–207, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233434 Published: 0…

  • An Investigation of University Selection Procedures

    Paul Collier, C MayerARTICLEThe Economic Journal1986References: 1

    Journal Article An Investigation of University Selection Procedures Get access Paul Collier, Paul Collier University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Colin Mayer Colin Mayer University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue Supplement, 1 December 1986, Pages 163–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232979 Published: 01 Dec…

  • Pitfalls in Public Policy: Profits or Props

    Open AccessC MayerARTICLEThe Political Quarterly1985Cited by: 1

  • Über die Widerstandsbereitschaft des Bewegungsapparates (Gegenhalten Kleists) und über krankhafte Greifphänomene

    Open AccessC Mayer, O ReischARTICLEJournal of Neurology1928