Socializing Capital : : The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America / / William G. Roy.
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 con...
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Roy, William G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Socializing Capital : The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America / William G. Roy. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999] ©1997 1 online resource (360 p.) : 8 line illus. 10 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Big business United States History. Capitalism United States History. Corporations United States Finance History. Industrial policy United States History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691010342 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400822270 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400822270 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400822270.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- 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 |
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