The Making Of The Modern Corporation

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262297943

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Information and the Modern Corporation by James W. Cortada Pdf

A guide to information as the transformative tool of modern business. While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and analyze information (often in digital form) in the course of doing their jobs. This book offers a guide to the role of information in modern business, mapping the use of information within work processes and tracing flows of information across supply-chain management, product development, customer relations, and sales. The emphasis is on information itself, not on information technology. Information, overshadowed for a while by the glamour and novelty of IT, is the fundamental component of the modern corporation. In Information and the Modern Corporation, longtime IBM manager and consultant James Cortada clarifies the differences among data, facts, information, and knowledge and describes how the art of analytics has all but eliminated decision making based on gut feeling, replacing it with fact-based decisions. He describes the working style of “road warriors,” whose offices are anywhere their laptops and cell phones are and whose deep knowledge of a given topic becomes their medium of exchange. Information is the core of the modern enterprise, and the use of information defines the activities of a firm. This essential guide shows managers and employees better ways to leverage information—by design and not by accident.

Author : Carlo Taviani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1032198931

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The Making of the Modern Corporation by Carlo Taviani Pdf

This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio's financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law's Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio.

Author : Alfred Dupont Chandler,Stephen Salsbury
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587980231

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Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation by Alfred Dupont Chandler,Stephen Salsbury Pdf

Author : Susan Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509923632

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The Making of the Modern Company by Susan Watson Pdf

This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and inevitable consequence of limited liability and the company's status as a separate legal entity from its shareholders. Management by a board subject to legal duties to the company as an entity that can exist in perpetuity facilitates a long term perspective by the board that can accommodate both shareholder and stakeholder interests. These defining characteristics differentiate the modern company from other business forms. The Making of the Modern Company applies a 21st-century lens to the corporation through its history to identify turning points in its development. It sets out how key features emerged in the course of two separate developmental cycles in English corporate law: first with the English East India Company in the 17th century, and then with general incorporation statutes in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The book's historical perspective highlights that the key features are part of the 'secret sauce' of modern companies. Each cycle coincided with unparalleled periods of economic success associated with corporate activity This book will be of interest to corporate law and governance academics, theorists and practitioners, those who study the company from related disciplines, and anyone who questions why uncertainty still exists about the structure of a legal form that has been described as 'amongst mankind's greatest inventions'.

Author : Carlo Taviani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000590296

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The Making of the Modern Corporation by Carlo Taviani Pdf

This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio’s financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law’s Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio.

Author : Robert F. Freeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521630347

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The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation by Robert F. Freeland Pdf

This book examines the changes in General Motors' organization between 1924 and 1970.

Author : Adolf A. Berle (Jr.),Gardiner Coit Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : PSU:000055769648

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The Modern Corporation and Private Property by Adolf A. Berle (Jr.),Gardiner Coit Means Pdf

Author : Roy C. Smith,Professor of Finance and International Business Roy C Smith,Roy C. Smith 19..- (économiste),Ingo Walter,Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance Corporate Governance and Ethics Ingo Walter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195171679

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Governing the Modern Corporation by Roy C. Smith,Professor of Finance and International Business Roy C Smith,Roy C. Smith 19..- (économiste),Ingo Walter,Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance Corporate Governance and Ethics Ingo Walter Pdf

In this comprehensive analysis, the authors examine the structure of market capitalism to see what went wrong before and after the stock market burst in 2000. They find conflicts of interest to be heavily embedded in the system, and argue for a different approach to governance than federal regulation.

Author : Thomas Conyngton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0656162996

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The Modern Corporation by Thomas Conyngton Pdf

Excerpt from The Modern Corporation: Its Mechanism, Methods, Formation and Management The forms added to the present edition are those practical forms which are needed in the management Of a corporation and are also desirable in any general consideration Of corporate organization and pro cedure. They were excluded from former editions by the limits Of space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412815536

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The Modern Corporation and Private Property by Anonim Pdf

Written more than a half-century ago, 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. This volume remains of valuable to all those concerned with the evolution of this major social institution.

Author : Sally H. Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521868785

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Trust and Power by Sally H. Clarke Pdf

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Author : Mel Horwitch
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483160542

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Technology in the Modern Corporation by Mel Horwitch Pdf

Technology in the Modern Corporation: A Strategic Perspective examines the role of technology in corporate planning and all that this relationship implies to corporate organization and strategy. Organized into 13 chapters, this book first discusses the management of corporate entrepreneurship; technological innovation and interdependence; and the rise and character of modern technology strategy. Subsequent chapters describe corporate research and development; corporate strategies for managing emerging technologies; approaches for the strategic management of technology; innovation and corporate strategy; and executive succession, strategic reorientations, and organization evolution.

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199372652

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Corporate Spirit by Amanda Porterfield Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and commerce in the history of incorporation in the United States. Beginning with the antecedents of that history in western Europe, she focuses on organizations to show how corporate strategies in religion and commerce developed symbiotically, and how religion has influenced the corporate structuring and commercial orientation of American society. Porterfield begins her story in ancient Rome. She traces the development of corporate organization through medieval Europe and Elizabethan England and then to colonial North America, where organizational practices derived from religion infiltrated commerce, and commerce led to political independence. Left more to their own devices than under British law, religious groups in the United States experienced unprecedented autonomy that facilitated new forms of communal governance and new means of broadcasting their messages. As commercial enterprise expanded, religious organizations grew apace, helping many Americans absorb the shocks of economic turbulence, and promoting new conceptions of faith, spirit, and will power that contributed to business. Porterfield highlights the role that American religious institutions played a society increasingly dominated by commercial incorporation and free market ideologies. She also shows how charitable impulses long nurtured by religion continued to stimulate reform and demand for accountability.

Author : Gardiner Means
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351479349

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The Modern Corporation and Private Property by Gardiner Means Pdf

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 informatio

Author : Thomas Conyngton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101986043X

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The Modern Corporation, Its Mechanism, Methods, Formation and Management by Thomas Conyngton Pdf

This classic business text by Thomas Conyngton explores the structure and function of modern corporations. Originally published in 1904, it is still relevant today as a critical study of corporate governance, management, and finance. The book covers topics such as stocks and bonds, mergers and acquisitions, and the role of directors and shareholders. A must-read for anyone interested in business history and theory. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.