Download or read book The Origins of the American Business Corporation 1784 1855 written by Ronald E. Seavoy and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Business Corporations Until 1860 with Special Reference to Massachusetts written by Edwin Merrick Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise of the American Business Corporation written by R. Tedlow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents an historical survey of the American business corporation from the colonial era to the present day.

Download or read book The Rise of the American Business Corporation written by Richard S. Tedlow and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origins of the American Business Corporation written by Oscar Handlin and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Business Corporation written by Eli Goldston and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of informed observations on the current American business scene. Part I was originally published as the Winter 1969 issue of Daedalus; Part II, however, contains both a new Preface and eight essays written during 1970-1971 which expand or illustrate themes that emerged from the earlier papers. The first part of the book presents the views of a number of scholars and scholarly journalists on the role of American business, focusing particularly on its responsibility in a time of deepening social crisis. Several themes are apparent: a consensus that private business will increasingly supply many of the physical goods and services previously obtained from public sources, and that the profit motive (tempered by social responsibility) will remain a primary force in American business; a general concern with the impact of accelerating technology and with the need for more comprehensive planning; a recognition of the increasing role of American business abroad and the problematic relationship of large U.S. firms to the sovereignty of foreign governments; and a noticeable fear that some sort of "corporate fascism" will develop from corporate involvement in the work of government and society, coupled with an apprehension that once a level of affluence is attained disaffection with the pressures and consequences of industrialization will swell the ranks of those who criticize or openly reject business as a way of life. In Part II, the editors have asked businessmen to explain how they see American business life evolving—is the modern business manager able to meet pressing social challenges? The majority of the authors feel that big corporations are making a reasonable response to these problems "while admittedly groping for the best resolution to the conflict between social responsibility and traditional purely economic objectives."

Download or read book We the Corporations How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights written by Adam Winkler and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A PBS “Now Read This” Book Club Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.

Download or read book Constructing Corporate America written by Kenneth Lipartito and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The authors draw on cultural theory, anthropology, political theory and legal history to consider the place of the firm in nineteenth and twentieth-century American Society.

Download or read book The Origins of the American Business Corporation 1784 1855 written by RONALD EDWARD SEAVOY and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Origins of the American Business Corporation written by Oscar Handlin and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corporations and American Democracy written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put today’s corporate policy debates in proper context. From the nation’s founding to the present, Americans have regarded corporations with ambivalence—embracing their potential to revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although corporations were originally created to give businesses and other associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and American law, the historical shift from special charters to general incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy groups. Ironically, in today’s global economy the decline of large, vertically integrated corporations—the type of corporation that past reform movements fought so hard to regulate—poses some of the newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.

Download or read book American Business Since 1920 written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the entrepreneur, the firm, and the industry, by showing—from the inside—how businesses operated after 1920, while offering a good deal of Modern American social and cultural history. The case studies and contextual chapters provide an in-depth understanding of the evolution of American management over nearly 100 years. American Business Since 1920: How It Worked presents historical struggles with decision making and the trend towards relative decentralization through stories of extraordinarily capable entrepreneurs and the organizations they led. It covers: Henry Ford and his competitor Alfred Sloan at General Motors during the 1920s; Neil McElroy at Procter & Gamble in the 1930s; Ferdinand Eberstadt at the government’s Controlled Materials Plan during World War II; David Sarnoff at RCA in the 1950s and 1960s; and Ray Kroc and his McDonald’s franchises in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; and more. It also delves into such modern success stories as Amazon.com, eBay, and Google. Provides deep analysis of some of the most successful companies of the 20th century Contains topical chapters covering titans of the 2000s Part of Wiley-Blackwell’s highly praised American History Series American Business Since 1920: How It Worked is designed for use in both basic and advanced courses in American history, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Download or read book The Story of American Business written by Nancy Fowler Koehn and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Credit Nancy Koehn with skillfully selecting, organizing, and then editing a wealth of material that originally appeared in The New York Times from May 11, 1869. Exploring the people, trends, and pivotal events that have shaped business in America, Koehn has organized the book around a number of important themes, including:The rise of big business-the advent of mass production, a national market, and the modern U.S. economy. Wall Street-its origins, key players, influence, and evolution. Leadership-from robber barons to corporate rock stars. The growth of a consumer society, changing women's roles, development of the labor movement, the rise of the service economy, and the impact of corporate scandals.

Download or read book American Business History a Very Short Introduction written by Walter A. Friedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive manufactory as the embodiment of America: "While Athens had its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit..." How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America? This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society. It introduces readers to formative business leaders (including Elbert Gary, Harlow Curtice, and Mary Kay Ash), leading firms (Mellon Bank, National Cash Register, Xerox), and fiction about business people (The Octopus, Babbitt, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit). It also discusses Alfred Chandler, Joseph Schumpeter, Mira Wilkins, and others who made significant contributions to understanding of America's business history. This VSI pursues its three central themes - the evolution, scale, and culture of American business - in a chronological framework stretching from the American Revolution to today. The first theme is evolution: How has U.S. business evolved over time? How have American companies competed with one another and with foreign firms? Why have ideas about strategy and management changed? Why did business people in the mid-twentieth century celebrate an "organizational" culture promising long-term employment in the same company, while a few decades later entrepreneurship was prized? Second is scale: Why did business assume such enormous scale in the United States? Was the rise of gigantic corporations due to the industriousness of its population, or natural resources, or government policies? And third, culture: What are the characteristics of a "business civilization"? How have opinions on the meaning of business changed? In the late nineteenth century, Andrew Carnegie believed that America's numerous enterprises represented an exuberant "triumph of democracy." After World War II, however, sociologist William H. Whyte saw business culture as stultifying, and historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, "Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men." How did changes in the nature of business affect popular views? Walter A. Friedman provides the long view of these important developments.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Business History written by Charles R. Geisst and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetically-arranged reference to the history of business and industry in the United States. Includes selected primary source documents.

Download or read book The History and Development of the American Business Corporation Before 1800 written by Lyle L. Mabe and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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