Shareholder Primacy in Corporate Law: Can it Survive? Should it Survive?

The dominant theory in Anglo-American jurisdictions, as far as determining the objective of large public corporations, has been, certainly since the 1970s, the shareholder primacy theory. Yet there have been in recent years a number of challenges to the dominance of this theory in Anglo-American jurisdictions. Given this, the article asks whether shareholder primacy is able retain its position as the dominating theory in relation to corporations in such jurisdictions? A second question that is considered is: should the theory survive?