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020 _a9781509923656
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020 _z9781509959686
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024 7 _a10.5040/9781509923656
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035 _a(OCoLC)1295226643
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100 1 _aWatson, Susan,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe making of the modern company /
_cSusan Watson.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aLondon [England] :
_bHart Publishing,
_c2022
264 2 _a[London, England] :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource (384 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aContemporary Studies in Corporate Law.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a1. Introduction Part 1: Development of the Modern Company -- 2. Persona ficta and Joint Stock -- 3. The Transition to Permanent Capital in the English East India Company -- 4. Corporate Governance in the English East India Company -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the English East India Company -- 6. The Early Emergence of Directors' Duties -- 7. Liability of Shareholders of Business Corporations -- 8. The Significance of the Deed of Settlement Company? -- 9. The General Incorporation Statutes -- 10. Key Milestones in the Development of the Modern Company Part 2: Consequences of the Modern Company -- 11. England Compared with other Jurisdictions -- 12. The Transition to the Modern Company in England -- 13. Conceptions of the Components and Characteristics of the Company -- 14. The Modern Company as an Entity -- 15. The Role of the Board -- 16. The Modern Company: Perils and Potential -- Bibliography -- Index
506 _aAbstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
520 _a"This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and inevitable consequence of limited liability and the company's status as a separate legal entity from its shareholders. Management by a board subject to legal duties to the company as an entity that can exist in perpetuity facilitates a long term perspective by the board that can accommodate both shareholder and stakeholder interests. These defining characteristics differentiate the modern company from other business forms. The Making of the Modern Company applies a 21st-century lens to the corporation through its history to identify turning points in its development. It sets out how key features emerged in the course of two separate developmental cycles in English corporate law: first with the English East India Company in the 17th century, and then with general incorporation statutes in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The book's historical perspective highlights that the key features are part of the 'secret sauce' of modern companies. Each cycle coincided with unparalleled periods of economic success associated with corporate activity This book will be of interest to corporate law and governance academics, theorists and practitioners, those who study the company from related disciplines, and anyone who questions why uncertainty still exists about the structure of a legal form that has been described as 'amongst mankind's greatest inventions'."--
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532 0 _aCompliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 _aCorporation law
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aCorporation law
_xHistory.
650 7 _aCompany law
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650 7 _aLegal history
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781509959686
830 0 _aContemporary Studies in Corporate Law
856 4 0 _3Abstract with links to full text
_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781509923656?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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975 _aHart Publishing 2022
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