A recent French reform has revised the legal definition of the corporation. In essence, the
law stipulates that the corporation must be run with due regard to the social and …

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REASSESSING SELF-DEALING: BETWEEN NO CONFLICT AND FAIRNESS Andrew F …

This Article entertains the idea that Delaware's corporate law is set on a trajectory that would
eventually lead to reforming its doctrine of entire fairness as we now know it by retiring the …

In this paper, we propose a new conceptualization of the purpose of the corporation in
relation to its activities. This conceptualization builds upon the existing distinction between …

Why are shareholder empowerment and activism such controversial issues in the United
States today? Other common law jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, have …

In this article, using new estimates of the size of the UK's capital market, we examine
financial development and investor protection laws in Britain c. 1900 to test the influential …

As companies became larger and shareholders more numerous in nineteenth and early
twentieth-century Britain, the conventional wisdom is that the free-rider problem inhibited …

A considerable theoretical and empirical literature studies the corporation's enterprise
choices, most prominently capital structure. Economists have paid less attention to other …

This article documents the early development of rules and social organisation of Africa's
oldest existing stock exchange. Founded in November 1887, a year after southern Africa's …

By the start of the twentieth century, the two organizational forms most used by Dutch banks
to raise capital through the dispersal of their ownership were the cooperative association …