Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law / 
[edited by] Harwell Wells. 
 - pages cm 
 - Research handbooks in corporate law and governance series .
<br/><br/>Table of contents<br/>Contents:<br/><br/>Introduction<br/>Harwell Wells<br/><br/>Part I Taking Shape<br/>1. Islamic Law and Economic Development<br/>Jared Rubin<br/><br/>2. Business Organizations in India Prior to the British East India Company<br/>Vikramaditya Khanna<br/><br/>3. Business Organization and Organizational Innovation in Late Medieval Italy<br/>Yadira Gonzalez de Lara<br/><br/>4. Trading with Strangers: The Corporate Form in the Move from Municipal Governance to Overseas Trade<br/>Ron Harris<br/><br/>Part II Modern Europe<br/>5. The Development of English Company Law before 1900<br/>John D. Turner<br/><br/>6. Shareholder Primacy, Labour, and the Historic Ambivalence of UK Company Law<br/>Marc T. Moore<br/><br/>7. German Company Law 1794-1897<br/>Timothy W. Guinnane<br/><br/>8. German Corporate Law in the 20th Century<br/>Thilo Kuntz<br/><br/>9. Change for Continuity: The Making of the Societe Anonyme in nineteenth Century France<br/>Jean Rochat<br/><br/>10. Classes of Shares and Voting Rights in the History of Italian Corporate Law<br/>Giulio Sandrelli and Marco Ventoruzzo<br/><br/>11. A History of the Corporation in Spain in the Twentieth Century: Towards Europe<br/>Susana Martinez-Rodriguez<br/><br/>12. EU Company Law Harmonization Between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism<br/>Martin Gelter<br/><br/>Part III Asia<br/>13. Corporation Law in Late Imperial China<br/>Teemu Ruskola<br/><br/>14. The Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Law: A Historical Perspective from India<br/>Umakanth Varottil<br/><br/>15. Japanese Corporate Law and Corporate Governance in Historical Perspective<br/>Bruce Aronson<br/><br/>Part IV North America<br/>16. The Evolution of Mexican Mercantile and Corporate Laws<br/>Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato and Gustavo A. Del Angel<br/><br/>17. A History of Canadian Corporate Law: A Divergent Path from the American Model?<br/>Fenner L. Stewart<br/><br/>18. For- and Non-profit Special Corporations in America, 1608-1860<br/>Robert E. Wright<br/><br/>19. Legitimating Power: A Brief History of Modern U.S. Corporate Law<br/>Dalia T. Mitchell<br/><br/>20. Adolf Berle, E. Merrick Dodd and the New American Corporatism of 1932<br/>William W. Bratton and Michael L. Wachter<br/><br/>21. Corporate Law and the History of Corporate Social Responsibility<br/>Lyman Johnson<br/><br/>22. Evolutionary Models of Corporate Law<br/>Amitai Aviram<br/><br/>Index  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781784717650 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017950470 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.06626 WEL-2