Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Harwell Wells.
• Editors: Wells, Harwell
• Contents: Introduction / (Harwell Wells) -- Part I Taking shape -- 1. Islamic law and economic development / Jared Rubin -- 2. Business organizations in India prior to the British East India Company / Vikramaditya Khanna -- 3. Business organizations and organizational innovation in late Medieval Italy / Yadira González de Lara -- 4. Trading with strangers: the corporate form in the move from municipal governance to overseas trade / Ron Harris -- Part II Modern Europe -- 5. The development of English Company law before 1900 / John D. Turner -- 6. Shareholder primacy, labour, and the historic ambivalence of UK company law / Marc T. Moore -- 7. German company law 1794-1897 / Timothy W. Guinnane -- 8. German corporate law in the Twentieth century / Thilo Kuntz -- 9. Change for continuity: the making of the Société Anonyme in 19th century France / Jean Rochat -- 10. Classes of shares and voting rights in the history of Italian corporate law / Giulio Sandrelli and Marco Ventoruzzo -- 11. A history of the corporation in Spain in the twentieth century: towards Europe / Susana Martínez-Rodríguez -- 12. EU company law harmonization between convergence and varieties of capitalism / Martin Gelter -- Part III Asia -- 13. Corporation law in late Imperial China / Teemu Ruskola -- 14. The stakeholder approach to corporate law: a historical perspective from India / Umakanth Varottil -- 15. Japanese Corporate law and corporate governance in historical perspective / Bruce Aronson -- Part IV North America -- 16. The evolution of Mexican mercantile and corporate laws / Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato and Gustavo Del Angel -- 17. A history of Canadian corporate law: a divergent path from the American model? / Fenner L. Stewart -- 18. For- and nonprofit special corporations in America, 1608-1860 / Robert E. Wright -- 19. Legitimating power: a brief history of modern US corporate law / Dalia T. Mitchell -- 20. Adolf Berle, E. Merrick Dodd, and the new American Corporatism of 1932 / William Bratton and Michael Wachter -- 21. Corporate law and the history of corporate social responsibility / Lyman Johnson -- 22. Evolutionary models of corporate law / Amitai Aviram -- Contents.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 641 pages)
• Subjects: 346/.066; LAW -- Corporate; Corporation law -- History; LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Company law; LAW -- Legal History; LAW -- Reference; Legal history; Reference works; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784717667; 1784717665
• Related ISBNs: 1784717657; 9781784717650
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2018).
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