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Ownership and control in the entrepreneurial firm : an international history of private limited companies
Guinnane, Timothy; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; … - 2007
organized in France, Germany, the UK, and the US show that that the PLLC became the form of choice for small- and medium … minority oppression that the corporation entailed. The PLLC was first successfully introduced in Germany, a code country, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811001
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Putting the corporation in its place
Guinnane, Timothy; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; … - 2007
-law countries (the UK and the US) and two countries governed by legal codes (France and Germany) and presents data showing the … first and most easily in a code country (Germany) and last and with the most difficulty in a common-law country (the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003468396
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Creating a new legal form : the GmbH
Guinnane, Timothy - In: Business history review 95 (2021) 1, pp. 3-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012523274
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Creating a New Legal Form : The GmbH
Guinnane, Timothy W. - 2020
The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH … longstanding practice; the GmbH, on the other hand, was the lawgiver's creation. Authorized in 1892, the GmbH appeared during a …) prevalent in many economies today. This paper traces the debates and the legislative process that led to the GmbH's introduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838104
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Recognition and Legal Forms of Social Enterprise in Europe : A Critical Analysis from a Comparative Law Perspective
Fici, Antonio - 2017
Social enterprise lawmaking is a growth industry. In the United States alone, over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of state laws establishing specific legal forms for social enterprises. The situation is not different in Europe, where the process began much earlier than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130936
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Creating a new legal form: the GmbH
Guinnane, Timothy - 2020
The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH … longstanding practice; the GmbH, on the other hand, was the lawgiver's creation. Authorized in 1892, the GmbH appeared during a …) prevalent in many economies today. This paper traces the debates and the legislative process that led to the GmbH's introduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197769
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Do competition and ownership matter? : evidence from local public transport in Europe
Boitani, Andrea; Nicolini, Marcella; Scarpa, Carlo - 2010
This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702341
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Taxation and incorporation
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355744
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Taxation and incorporation
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2011
This paper provides a theory of incorporation and taxation that emphasizes the role of the corporate legal form in facilitating access to external capital and the potential advantages of limited liability. Incorporation relaxes financing constraints and makes corporations larger than comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306344
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Do competition and ownership matter? : evidence from local public transport in Europe
Boitani, Andrea; Nicolini, Marcella; Scarpa, Carlo - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 10/12, pp. 1419-1434
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009718374