Tag: Business History
RIP PLC: The Rise of the Ghost Corporation
From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th, one form of economic organisation seemed to be displacing all others—the limited...
Adam Smith and the Pin Factory
‘One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at...
The Concept of the Corporation
The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Business History (15 Jan 2019) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2018.1509956.