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The Rise of Online Platforms and the Triumph of the Corporation

, 2020
Rather than viewing online platforms as digital marketplaces, we analyze platforms as corporations and platform participants as a workforce. Online platforms perform very similar functions as any other corporation, but in different ways (applying terms ...
K. Frenken, Lea Fuenfschilling
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Eclipse of the Public Corporation

, 1999
The publicly held corporation has outlived its usefulness in many sectors of the economy. New organizations are emerging. Takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and other going-private transactions are manifestations of this change.
M. C. Jensen
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Corporate identity, corporate branding and corporate reputations [PDF]

European Journal of Marketing, 2012
PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to explore, define, reconcile and depict corporate identity (CI), corporate brand (CB) and corporate reputation (CR) in a framework that reflects the dimensions of these constructs, discriminates between them and represents their inter‐relatedness.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on key literature ...
Abratt, Russell, Kleyn, Nicola Susan
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Corporations and the Corporate Elite

Annual Review of Sociology, 1980
the role of business. In this review, attention is generally restricted to the largest corporations and their corporate elite. At present there are more than two million business enterprises in the US, and nearly all are very small; in 1973, for instance, nine out often companies commanded assets of $1 million or less.
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Corporations

2014
Abstract In this chapter the private international law of corporations and of corporate insolvency is examined as well as the role of the lex incorporationis, and the question whether it is appropriate as a conflicts rule of wide application.
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Corporate Imagery and Corporate Identity

1994
In any organization, the relationship between strategic, structural, and psychological factors centering around a common core of abilities leads us to postulate the existence of a “corporate identity” which, in the same way as an individual’s personality, deeply influences its development.
Larçon, Jean-Paul, Reitter, Roland
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Corporate Law and Corporate Governance

Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996
Abstract Corporate law and corporate governance are flip sides of the same coin. The fundamental task of corporate law is to provide a framework of goverance institutions that mitigate the agency problem arising from the separation of ownership and control in the modern corporation-that the interests of the managers who control corporate
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Stakeholder Agency and Social Welfare: Pluralism and Decision Making in the Multi-Objective Corporation

, 2016
Social welfare, or the good society, is of central concern to the Academy of Management. We begin by observing that, in theory and practice, social welfare appears to be a multifarious, multidimensional, pluralistic concept.
Ronald K. Mitchell, G. Weaver, Bradley R. Agle, Adam D. Bailey, James Carlson   +4 more
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International Portfolio Choice and Corporation Finance: A Synthesis

, 1983
Focuses on international portfolio choice and corporation finance. Micro-theory of individual portfolio choice; Equilibrium pricing relationships and risk-return tradeoffs; Objectives for value maximizing firms. (Из Ebsco)
M. Adler, B. Dumas
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Why do companies obtain the B corporation certification?

Social Responsibility Journal, 2019
Purpose This study identifies the factors that influence companies to obtain the B corporation certification. Drawing from institutional isomorphism, gender socialization theory, the ethics of care and social identity theory, the authors examine the ...
M. Harjoto, I. Laksmana, Ya‐wen Yang
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