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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization.
978-0-87140-712-2. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights is a book-length history of American corporate personhood and other rights of corporations written by constitutional law professor Adam Winkler and published by W. W. Norton in 2018. The title was a 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist.
LC Class. HD2795 .B53 1991. The Modern Corporation and Private Property is a book written by Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means published in 1932 regarding the foundations of United States corporate law. It explores the evolution of big business through a legal and economic lens, and argues that in the modern world those who legally have ownership ...
New Jersey followed New York's lead in 1816, when it enacted its first corporate law. [ 3] In 1837, Connecticut adopted a general corporation statute that allowed for the incorporation of any corporation engaged in any lawful business. [ 3] Delaware did not enact its first corporation law until 1883.
American business history is a history of business, entrepreneurship, and corporations, together with responses by consumers, critics, and government, in the United States from colonial times to the present. In broader context, it is a major part of the Economic history of the United States, but focuses on specific business enterprises.
v. t. e. Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs. It is related to economic history. [ 1]
In 1974, Business History Review published its first special issue on the multinational corporation. Included in the issue was an article on oil companies operating in South America by Mira Wilkins, [5] who pioneered the field of international business history. The journal also expanded its focus beyond the workings of business enterprise to ...
A corporation is an organization —usually a group of people or a company —authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes. [ 1]: 10 Early incorporated entities were ...