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Format: 1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition: Course Book

ISBN: 1-4008-0690-9 , 1-4008-2227-0 , 9786612753237 , 1-282-75323-1 , 1-4008-1324-7

Content: Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Figures -- , Tables -- , Preface -- , CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- , CHAPTER TWO. A Quantitative Test of Efficiency Theory -- , CHAPTER THREE. The Corporation as Public and Private Enterprise -- , CHAPTER FOUR. Railroads: The Corporation's Institutional Wellspring -- , CHAPTER FIVE. Auxiliary Institutions: The Stock Market, Investment Banking, and Brokers -- , CHAPTER SIX. Statutory Corporate Law, 1880-1913 -- , CHAPTER SEVEN. Prelude to a Revolution -- , CHAPTER EIGHT. American Industry Incorporates -- , CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion: A Political Sociology of the Large Corporation -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-01034-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-04353-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400822270

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 338 pages)

ISBN: 1400813247 , 9781400813247 , 9781400822270 , 1400822270 , 9780691010342 , 9780691043531 , 069101034X , 0691043531

Content: Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power.

Content: The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case

Content: Introduction -- A quantitative test of efficiency theory -- The corporation as public and private enterprise -- Railroads: the corporation's institutional wellspring -- Auxiliary institutions: the stock market, investment banking, and brokers -- Statutory corporate law, 1880-1913 -- Prelude to a revolution -- American industry incorporates -- Conclusion: a political sociology of the large corporation

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0691043531

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roy, William G., 1946 - Socializing capital Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 0691043531

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691043531

Additional Edition: ISBN 069101034X

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691010342

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roy, William G., 1946- Socializing capital Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©1997

Language: English

Subjects: History , Economics

Keywords: USA ; Großbetrieb ; Geschichte 1800-1914

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Format: Online-Ressource

Edition: Online-Ausg. Online version of print publication

ISBN: 9781282753235 , 9780691010342

Note: Online version of print publication.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Socializing capital

Language: English

URL: Volltext  (Available on EBSCOhost)

URL: Available in SocINDEX with Full Text