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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
-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form of business organization. Data on the number and types of firms … minority oppression that the corporation entailed. The PLLC was first successfully introduced in Germany, a code country, in … common-law country whose courts had effectively killed earlier attempts to enact the form. -- limited company ; partnership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811001
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Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm : An International History of Private Limited Companies
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; … - 2007
-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form of business organization. Data on the number and types of firms … minority oppression that the corporation entailed. The PLLC was first successfully introduced in Germany, a code country, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221754
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Contractual Freedom and Corporate Governance in Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2017
British general incorporation law granted companies an extraordinary degree of contractual freedom to craft their own governance rules. It provided companies with a default set of articles of association, but incorporators were free to reject any part or all of the model and write their own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034499
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The Private Origins of the Private Company : Britain 1862-1907
Harris, Ron - 2010
, often by introducing partnership internal governance rules into company Articles. Eventually, in 1907, the private company …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143118
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Company Law, Lawyers and 'Legal' Innovation : Common Law versus Civil Law
Reyes, Francisco; Vermeulen, Erik P. M. - 2012
In this essay we make two major claims. The first is that public legislatures should think seriously about giving maximum effect to the principle of freedom of contract in company law. This would not only give corporate lawyers the tool they need to provide legal services that match the needs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178892
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Law and finance in Britain c.1900
Coyle, Christopher; Musacchio, Aldo; Turner, John D. - 2019
In this paper, using new estimates of the size of the UK's capital market, we examine financial development and investor protection laws in Britain c.1900 to test the influential law and finance hypothesis. Our evidence suggests that there was not a close correlation between financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102541
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
suggesting a default template of rules. Ultimately, the matter of protection was one for the corporation and its shareholders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521411
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Examining the value relevance of financial statements in European countries : the importance of legal origins on cross listing decisions
Kythreotis, Alexios; Christofi, Kyriakos; Soltani, Milad - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-11
In today’s globalized competitive landscape several dimensions such as labour, markets and capital are integrated. As a result, companies attempt to gain inbound foreign capital. To achieve that they investigate away countries to host their operations and to trade their shares. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519305
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The Common Law Corporation : The Power of the Trust in Anglo-American Business History
Morley, John - 2017
-nineteenth century. The trust's success in wielding corporation-like powers suggests that the corporation's role in legal history was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964681