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Constructing corporate America : history, politics, culture

This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the domination 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
eBook, English, 2004
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004
Electronic books
1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) : illustrations
9780191530807, 9780199251896, 9780191719059, 9786610904808, 0191530808, 0199251894, 0191719056, 6610904804
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Introduction Crossing Corporate Boundaries ; PART I: THE CORPORATE PROJECT ; 1. Partnerships, Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in US History: An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture ; 2. From Partners to Plutocrats: Nineteenth-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation ; 3. The Utopian Corporation ; 4. Whose Hubris? Brandeis, Scientific Management, and the Railroads ; PART II: CORPORATE-STATE INTERDEPENDENCIES ; 5. The Monopoly Enigma, the Reagan Administration's Antitrust Experiment, and the Global Economy ; 6. Corporate Technological Capabilities and the State: A Dynamic Historical Interaction ; 7. The Corporation Under Seige: Social Movements, Regulation, Public Relations, and Tort Law since World War II ; PART III: THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITY ; 8. The Business of Jews ; 9. White Corporate America: The New Arbiter of Race? ; 10. Wall Street Women's Herstories ; 11. New Economy Romanticism, Narratives of Corporate Personhood, and the Antimanagerial Impulse ; Afterword Towards New Renderings