1st Edition
The History of the Company, Part II vol 5 Development of the Business Corporation, 1700-1914
442 Pages
by
Routledge
Explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later 17th and the early 20th centuries, the editors bring together a collection which employs selected documents and analytical commentary to illustrate the external role of the firm and public perceptions of it.
Volume 5: Birth, John Duncan, Practical Directions for Forming and Managing Joint-Stock Companies (1856) Henry Lloyd Morgan, Auditors: Remarks on the Qualifications and Duties of Auditors of Accounts of Joint Stock and other Public Bodies (1857) Henry Lloyd Morgan, Personal Liabilities of Directors of Joint Stock Companies under the Fraudulent Trustees’ Act (1858) Alfred Emden, The Shareholders’ Legal Guide (1884) American Telephone Company, Prospectus (1887) Gill McDowell Jarrah Company Limited, Prospectus (1898)
Biography
Robin Pearson, James Taylor, Mark Freeman
