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Corporate Governance and Economic Development
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Corporate Governance and Economic Development

by Anna Lanoszka
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
196 pages
7h 36m
English
Routledge
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3Progress Among Crises – Lessons From the US

DOI: 10.4324/9780429443459-3

No other country in the world had experienced a more historically intertwined connection with a corporation than the United States. The very first American communities were organized by chartered companies and since that time corporations had fought in courts to secure rights similar to those normally enjoyed by living persons. When companies of the 17th century sent their employees on the escapade to conquer the new world, they also ended up sewing seeds of an American political system and the Common Law tradition. In a unique way, the American Constitution had been inspired by activities of these first corporate entities. Anchored in the practices of the early settlements ...

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