Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict | Stavros Gadinis

Who really holds power inside today’s biggest companies? In this episode of Boardroom Governance, UC Berkeley Law Professor Stavros Gadinis, author of Corporate Ordering, explains how corporate power is shifting as companies take on roles once associated with governments and regulators. We discuss AI governance, board oversight, accountability and real-world examples from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Uber, including what happens when formal governance structures collide with economic power. Timestamps 00:00 Highlights 00:44 Introduction to Stavros Gadinis 04:06 Why Corporate Ordering? 07:41 How Corporations Become Rulemakers 14:14 The AI Governance Crisis 19:11 The OpenAI Board Fiasco 27:00 Meta’s Oversight Board 30:00 The 3-Step Framework for Corporate Governance 35:07 Governance vs. Compliance 41:37 Global AI Regulation 46:22 The Role of Legal Counsel 47:35 Rapid Fire Questions Follow Boardroom Governance Website: https://boardroom-governance.com/ Newsletter: evanepstein.substack.com LinkedIn:   / board-gov   Follow Evan Epstein LinkedIn:   / epsteinevan   X: https://x.com/evanepstein Subscribe to Boardroom Governance on YouTube    / @boardroomgovernance