To many observers, a focus on entrepreneurial groups–or, more colloquially, venture
'founding teams'–is a thoroughly modern pre-occupation. It was only in the late 1980s and …

The creation of the public corporation in the 19th century drove out the partnership as the
predominant form of organizational governance. Yet, within the professional services sector …

This article raises a set of cautions regarding public value governance along two
dimensions. First, it questions the common claim that public value governance poses a …

The decision by the US Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC struck down restrictions on
corporate political speech on the grounds that such restrictions violated the First Amendment …

According to the dominant 'nexus of contracts' and 'collection of assets' views of the firm, the
firm is a either a fiction or an aggregate. Although legal personality is important in both …

Studies of corporate governance traditionally focus on the governance problems of large
publicly held firms, and policymakers' recommendations often focus on such firms. However …

Joseph Schumpeter began his now-famous article on “Creative Response in Economic
History” with this plea:“Economic historians and economic theorists can make an interesting …

During the white slavery scare of the Progressive era, American reformers intertwined the
story of the sexually coerced maiden with a heated condemnation of the business of vice …

Research on the economics of worker-owned cooperatives once took two forms. One form
was highly abstract and offered theoretical models that claimed to characterize certain …

We explore the significance of social ontology and its capacity to inform the specification of
organizational status, architecture and capacities. We consider how different conceptions of …