1st Edition

The History of the Company, Part II vol 6 Development of the Business Corporation, 1700-1914

    362 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 6: Structure, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Organization of the Service of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road, under the Proposed New System of Management (1847) William Thomas Thomson, On the Present Position of the Life Assurance Interests of Great Britain (1852) Robert Stewart, The Audit of Joint-Stock Bank Accounts by Shareholders: Is it Practicable or Desirable? (1853) William Rawson, Diary of a Director: Notes and Recollections Made during the Last Fourteen Years (1857) Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, Organization for Conducting the Business of the Road, adopted December 26, 1857 (1858) Michael Thomas Bass, A Circular from M. T. Bass, M.P., to Great Eastern Shareholders, with a Financial Report (1876) Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, By-Laws and Organization for Conducting the Business of the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company (1881) James Graham Cannon, An Ideal Bank: an address delivered before the Institute of Accounts, New York, Jan 1891 (1891) American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Annual Report for 1911 (1911) American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Plan for Employees’ Pensions, Disability Benefits and Insurance (1912)

    Biography

    Robin Pearson, James Taylor, Mark Freeman