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The Corporate Paradox. Economic Realities of the Corporate Form of Organization.
Wouter H.F.M. Cortenraad
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Description for The Corporate Paradox. Economic Realities of the Corporate Form of Organization.
Hardback. Using modern economic theory concerning the functioning of markets and organizations, this book examines how the concept of the corporation relates to the economic entity it organizes and in effect, how it may affect the use that firms make of society's valuable but scarce resources. Num Pages: 402 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1680.
The `corporation' is by far the most successful legal concept of organization among large business firms. Yet there are numerous examples of firms operated in corporate form that were troubled either by internal problems arising from divergences of interests between the firm's various constituents (notably, managers and investors), or by conflicts with other members of society (including both victims of accidents or environmental pollution caused by the firm and unpaid creditors in the event of business failure). It is this paradox between the corporation's prima facie success and its apparent ambiguity ... Read more
The `corporation' is by far the most successful legal concept of organization among large business firms. Yet there are numerous examples of firms operated in corporate form that were troubled either by internal problems arising from divergences of interests between the firm's various constituents (notably, managers and investors), or by conflicts with other members of society (including both victims of accidents or environmental pollution caused by the firm and unpaid creditors in the event of business failure). It is this paradox between the corporation's prima facie success and its apparent ambiguity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792386957
SKU
V9780792386957
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99-15
About Wouter H.F.M. Cortenraad
H.F.M. Cortenraad (1966), is a member of the bar of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is currently a practicing lawyer in the Amsterdam offices of Loeff Claeys Verbeke (Nederland), where he specializes in corporate law and commercial litigation. Cortenraad graduated from the law schools of the Universities of Maastricht, The Netherlands, and Toronto, Canada. He is a former legal counsel of ... Read more
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