Add to ORKG[Extract] For centuries people have invested, traded, policed, warred, worked and communicated over huge distances. The modern shareholder corporation was devised to achieve this. The Dutch created the equity corporation-epitomized by the East India Company-to fund a quasi-permanent network of fortified sea-trading posts that spread across half of the globe (Parry, 1963). These were the first network organizations in the modern sense. The popularity of the corporation farm grew rapidly in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. It proved effective for doing business on what was becoming a continental scale-as the American Union expanded westward. The shareholder corporation was eminently suited to the building o...
Classical political economy was dedicated to the principle that the state could best encourage econo...
For most of the twentieth century, the conventional wisdom held—probably correctly—that shareholders...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
[Extract] For centuries people have invested, traded, policed, warred, worked and communicated over ...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
The modern corporation did not reach its present position of importance in economic and social fact ...
The modern corporation did not reach its present position of importance in economic and social fact ...
This is a study of the evolution of the forms of business organization during the industrial revolut...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
As an anthropologist, coming out of three decades of research among indigenous Brazilian populations...
Classical political economy was dedicated to the principle that the state could best encourage econo...
For most of the twentieth century, the conventional wisdom held—probably correctly—that shareholders...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
[Extract] For centuries people have invested, traded, policed, warred, worked and communicated over ...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
The modern corporation did not reach its present position of importance in economic and social fact ...
The modern corporation did not reach its present position of importance in economic and social fact ...
This is a study of the evolution of the forms of business organization during the industrial revolut...
In the stage of industrial capitalism the corporations developed specially as railway companies. As ...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...
As an anthropologist, coming out of three decades of research among indigenous Brazilian populations...
Classical political economy was dedicated to the principle that the state could best encourage econo...
For most of the twentieth century, the conventional wisdom held—probably correctly—that shareholders...
We describe how, during the 17th century, the business corporation gradually emerged in response to ...