When Limited Liability was (Still) an Issue: Mobilization and Politics of Signification in 19th-Century England - Sciences Po
Journal Articles Organization Studies Year : 2013

When Limited Liability was (Still) an Issue: Mobilization and Politics of Signification in 19th-Century England

Marie-Laure Djelic

Abstract

The corporation is a modern fixture of contemporary capitalism. It can be hailed, on the one hand, as the historical motor of economic development and a structuring device of global wealth production (Chandler 1977, 1990). It can also be presented and vilipended as the source of all contemporary ills and evils – a power hungry bureaucratic monster (Perrow 2005), a profoundly psychopathic artificial individual (Bakan 2004) or a sprawling global octopus taking capitalist appropriation to new frontiers. In any case, the corporation has become one of those institutions that we, on the whole, tend to take for granted. [First paragraph]
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Marie-Laure Djelic. When Limited Liability was (Still) an Issue: Mobilization and Politics of Signification in 19th-Century England. Organization Studies, 2013, 34 (5-6), pp.683 - 703. ⟨10.1177/0170840613479223⟩. ⟨hal-01891965⟩
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