The Modern Corporation and Private Property - Image 1

Price loading...

Routledge The Modern Corporation and Private Property

Name: The Modern Corporation and Private Property
Brand: Routledge

Business & Economic History

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

This monumental work on the corporation is one of those enduring classics that many cite but few have read. Graced with a new introduction by Weidenbaum and Jensen, this new edition makes this classic available to a new generation. Written in the early 1930s, The Modern Corporation and Private Property remains the fundamental introduction to the internal organization of the corporation in modern society. Combining the analytical skills of an attorney with those of an economist, Berle and Means raise the central questions, even when their answers have been superseded by changing circumstances. The book's most enduring theme is the separation of ownership from control of the modern corporation and its consequences. Berle and Means display keen awareness of the divergent interests of directors and managers, and of each from owners of the firm. Among their predictions are the characteristic increase in size of the modem corporation and concentration of the economy. The authors view stock exchanges and stock markets as essential by-products of the rise of the modem corporation, and explore how these function. They address the difficult questions of whether corporations operate for the benefit of owners or managers, and explore what motivates managers to make effective use of corporate assets. Finally, they examine the role of the corporation as the prevailing form of organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. In their new introduction, Weidenbaum and Jensen, co-directors of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University, critically assess the impact of developments not fully anticipated by Berle and Means, such as the rise of the service sector, and the significant role played by institutional investors in the owner/manager equation. They note the authors' prescient observations, including the complex role of and motivating influences on professional managers, and the significance of inside information on stock markets. As they note, The Modern Corporation and Private Property remains of central value to all those concerned with the evolution of this major social institution of the twentieth century. Scholar and practitioner alike will find it of enduring significance.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138536865
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 September 2017
Listed Since: 07 July 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The Modern Corporation and Private Property

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Modern Corporation and Private Property

Routledge Corporate Society: Class, Property, and Capitalism

Economics, Capitalism, and Corporations: Contradictions of Corporate Law, Economics, and the Theory of the Firm (The Economics of Legal Relationships)

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America

The Modern Firm, Corporate Governance and Investment (New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation series)

The Corporation: Rethinking the Iconic Form of Business Organization: 78 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 78)

Between Citizen and State: An Introduction to the Corporation

The Theory of Corporate Finance

Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience

Modern American Capitalism: Understanding Public Attitudes and Perceptions

Corporate Law and the Theory of the Firm: Reconstructing Corporations, Shareholders, Directors, Owners, and Investors (The Economics of Legal Relationships)

Concept of the Corporation

Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law (Research Handbooks in Law and Economics series)

Routledge - Corporate Finance and Governance in Stakeholder Society

Economics, Capitalism, and Corporations: Contradictions of Corporate Law, Economics, and the Theory of the Firm (The Economics of Legal Relationships)

Routledge - The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society Book

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law (Research Handbooks in Corporate Law and Governance series)

Mapping European Corporations: Strategy, Structure, Ownership and Performance

The Place of Science in Modern Civilization

Routledge - Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in America

Routledge Weber, Schumpeter and Modern Capitalism Book

Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy: How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector

Corporate Personhood

Concept of the Corporation