Corporate Subjects
An Intellectual History of the Corporation
Corporate Subjects

Publications

2026

The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition — Tessa Tilde Barnow, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen & Mathias Hein Jessen (eds.).

Emerald Group Publishing, 2026.­

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The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition: Introduction — Tessa Tilde Barnow, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, Mathias Hein Jessen.

In The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition, Vol. 98, pp. 1-18. Emerald Group Publishing, 2026.

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The Corporation as a Political Battleground: The Privatization and Economization of the Corporation — Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen & Mathias Hein Jessen.

In The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition, Vol. 98, pp. 19-37. Emerald Group Publishing, 2026.

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Enabling sustainable corporations? Conflating extraction with contribution in conceptualizations of sustainable investments in the European Union — Tessa Tilde Barnow.

In The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition, Vol. 98, pp. 109-132. Emerald Group Publishing, 2026.

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2025

Dis-Embedding Forces and Associative Counter-Movements: Capitalism, State Sovereignty and Associations as Political Subjects — Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen & Mathias Hein Jessen.

In Capital & Class, 2025.

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2022

Towards a critical theory of the corporate form — Mathias Hein Jessen.

Published in Ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 22(3), pp. 259-273.

Review of:

    • ­­Grietje Baars (2019). The corporation, law and capitalism: A radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Historical Materialism Book Series, volume 188. 
    • Grietje Baars & André Spicer (eds.) (2017). The Corporation: A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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2020

The Corporate State — Mathias Hein Jessen.

In N. Buxton (Ed.), State of Power Report 2020: The Corporation, Transnational Institute.

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