TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptualizing the Business Corporation: Insights from History
AU - Gindis, David
N1 - © 2020 Cambridge University Press. This paper has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer-review and/or editorial input by Cambridge University Press. This manuscript is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License (CC-BY-NC-ND). For further information please see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - The purpose of this symposium is to shed light on the genealogy of the idea of a business corporation, an economic institution which has long been regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension. Each of the four original contributions addresses the history of some of its key features. In the process, each contributor reveals some of the insights that history has to teach us regarding the central concepts that inform contemporary debates about the nature of the corporation, the contours of the corporation’s purpose, the sources of corporate power, the functions of corporate law, the duties of directors, the status of shareholders, and the legitimacy of corporate rights.
AB - The purpose of this symposium is to shed light on the genealogy of the idea of a business corporation, an economic institution which has long been regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension. Each of the four original contributions addresses the history of some of its key features. In the process, each contributor reveals some of the insights that history has to teach us regarding the central concepts that inform contemporary debates about the nature of the corporation, the contours of the corporation’s purpose, the sources of corporate power, the functions of corporate law, the duties of directors, the status of shareholders, and the legitimacy of corporate rights.
KW - Business corporation
KW - corporate personality
KW - economic and legal history
KW - history of economic
KW - legal and political thought
KW - limited liability
KW - membership and governance
KW - ownership
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088830538&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1744137420000235
DO - 10.1017/S1744137420000235
M3 - Editorial
SN - 1744-1374
VL - 16
SP - 569
EP - 577
JO - Journal of Institutional Economics
JF - Journal of Institutional Economics
IS - 5
ER -