Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law

Edited by Harwell Wells, I. Herman Stern Professor of Law,Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law, US

‘If you are a business historian, you should read this book, regardless of the historical period or industry you study. Whether your research is on firms that are called Ltd or Inc or S.A. or GmbH, you will find this Research Handbook to be an extremely useful introduction to the world of corporate governance theory. This book will be particularly important to business historians interested in transnational and comparative historical topics.’

• Contents:IntroductionHarwell WellsPart I Taking Shape1. Islamic Law and Economic DevelopmentJared Rubin2. Business Organizations in India Prior to the British East India CompanyVikramaditya Khanna3. Business Organization and Organizational Innovation in Late Medieval ItalyYadira González de Lara4. Trading with Strangers: The Corporate Form in the Move from Municipal Governance to Overseas Trade Ron HarrisPart II Modern Europe5. The Development of English Company Law before 1900 John D. Turner6. Shareholder Primacy, Labour, and the Historic Ambivalence of UK Company LawMarc T. Moore7. German Company Law 1794-1897 Timothy W. Guinnane8. German Corporate Law in the 20th Century Thilo Kuntz9. Change for Continuity: The Making of the Société Anonyme in nineteenth Century France Jean Rochat10. Classes of Shares and Voting Rights in the History of Italian Corporate Law Giulio Sandrelli and Marco Ventoruzzo11. A History of the Corporation in Spain in the Twentieth Century: Towards Europe Susana Martínez-Rodríguez12. EU Company Law Harmonization Between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism Martin GelterPart III Asia13. Corporation Law in Late Imperial China Teemu Ruskola14. The Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Law: A Historical Perspective from India Umakanth Varottil15. Japanese Corporate Law and Corporate Governance in Historical Perspective Bruce AronsonPart IV North America16. The Evolution of Mexican Mercantile and Corporate Laws Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato and Gustavo A. Del Angel17. A History of Canadian Corporate Law: A Divergent Path from the American Model? Fenner L. Stewart18. For- and Non-profit Special Corporations in America, 1608-1860 Robert E. Wright19. Legitimating Power: A Brief History of Modern U.S. Corporate Law Dalia T. Mitchell20. Adolf Berle, E. Merrick Dodd and the New American Corporatism of 1932 William W. Bratton and Michael L. Wachter21. Corporate Law and the History of Corporate Social Responsibility Lyman Johnson22. Evolutionary Models of Corporate Law Amitai AviramIndex