There is an unexamined paradox in the history of government in the West. The so-called
absolutist monarchs of Europe overwhelmingly chartered republican corporations—eg …

Purpose This study was steered to establish how buyer–supplier collaboration's commitment
attributes serve as an antecedent for procurement performance in large manufacturing …

The legal system is a meta-institution. It spells out the formal rules of the game and how they
are enforced. Social scientists are interested in the question “How well does it function?” …

The" law and finance" paradigm posits that legal institutions play a crucial role in financial
development; however, China has long been considered an exception. This study …

Abstract This Review Essay situates Stephen Bainbridge's new book, The Profit Motive:
Defending Shareholder Value Maximization, within the rich literature on corporate purpose …

In very recent memory, private firms have established reproductive policies supporting
employee access to abortion in the wake of Dobbs,'limited access to assault weapons in the …

Can there be a highly developed financial market without legal protection for investors and
creditors? The influential law and finance literature is built on the assumption that legal …

As conduits for the transmission of cultural values, networks of religion and state originating
in premodern Europe and China contributed to the institutional roots of their respective …

This paper argues that political and market concentration level explains why developing
economies often under-invest in institutional infrastructure and legal capacity. Economic …

The Merging of Ownership and Control Page 1 University of Tennessee College of Law Legal
Scholarship Repository: A Service of the Joel A. Katz Law Library Scholarly Works Faculty …