Origins of Shareholder Advocacy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Shareholder Advocacy and the Development of the Corporation: The Timeless Dilemmas of an Age-old Solution....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
An Admiralty for Asia: Business Organization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in the Dutch Republic, 1590–1640....Pages 29-60
Shareholder Activists Avant la Lettre: The “Complaining Participants” in the Dutch East India Company, 1622–1625....Pages 61-87
The Great Expropriation: Interpreting the Innovation of “Permanent Capital” at the Dutch East India Company....Pages 89-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Litigation Plus Regulation: The Protection of Investor Rights in Late-Medieval Venice....Pages 101-122
Shareholder Activism in the Virginia Company of London, 1606–1624....Pages 123-143
Shareholders’ Rights in the Early Italian Companies: Agency Problems and Legal Strategies....Pages 145-167
 Compagnie des Indes: Governance and Bailout....Pages 169-186
The Rise and Fall of the Rishengchang bank model: Limiting Shareholder Influence to Attract Capital....Pages 187-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse....Pages 215-229
Corporate Governance and Stockholder/Stakeholder Activism in the United States, 1790–1860: New Data and Perspectives....Pages 231-251
Origins of “Offensive” Shareholder Activism in the United States....Pages 253-276
Contemporary Issues in Shareholder Advocacy....Pages 277-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-292