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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/10010274046
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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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Common Law Equity in a Civil Law Country
Angelo, Anthony H.; Allan, Ashleigh - 2016
This article serves to introduce an aspect of current research related to the review of the Seychelles Civil Code and the important question of the role of trusts. The Civil Code is based on the Code Napoléon and has therefore no provision for the trust of English law. The Courts of Seychelles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129243
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Whither the Common Law Derivative Action? A Malaysian Case Study
Salim, Mohammad Rizal - 2017
Malaysia has had a statutory protection for derivative action since 2007. However, unlike most other common law countries, the common law derivative action has been preserved to exist alongside the statutory action, By using a case study, this article forwards evidence that having the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968319
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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/10012106116
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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