Summary of JOIE Article by Ugo Pagano, University of Siena , Italy. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The modern business corporation is one of the most powerful institutions in contemporary society, yet its origins and nature remain poorly understood. This paper argues that to make sense of what corporations are today —…
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Ernst Freund as precursor of the rational study of corporate law
Summary of JOIE article (First View, 07 December 2017) by David Gindis, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Hertfordshire. This article appeared in the Symposium on Corporations edited by David Gindis.The complete article is available on the JOIE website. Until recently, the legal personality or legal entity status ascribed by law to firms and similar organization played little…