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The great size of the modern corporation and its power to influence life in America are discussed in this first of three articles written for the ATLANTIC by the distinguished Paul M. Warburg ...
The existence of this "modern corporation", characterized by strongly positive returns to scale, is not necessarily anti-competitive.
The "new" Modern Corporation is needed to compete. The United State must be ready! The final point is that we are going to see a lot of changes taking place.
For nearly all of its life, the modern corporation has made money by making things. It has done so by amassing fixed assets, organizing large workforces, and managing hierarchically. The 21st ...
Will we look back at boards of directors, company divisions, corporate lobbying, and egregious executive compensation with the same awe and wonder as when we hear of LaserDiscs, Ford Pintos ...
There’s been a lot of talk for many years about the significant value of data to the corporation. So much so that we often hear pundits state how data is the new oil of the digital economy ...
The modern corporation, as we know it today, was born of state power. It was chartered specifically as a vessel for a variety of anti-competitive special privileges.
Unlike Chandler, whose seminal book on the rise of the modern corporation, The Visible Hand, was published in the 1970s, when the large corporation was at its apogee, Langlois questions whether ...
To justify ownership of any business a corporation must have the appropriate structures, systems, and policies to actually realize value. This module examines these design choices, focusing on the ...