Pathways to Corporate Accountability: Corporate Reputation and Its Alternatives
May 2020
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Journal article
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Journal of Business Ethics
50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5001 Applied Ethics
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era. By Michael R. Cohen. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 259. $40.00, cloth.
March 2019
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Journal article
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The Journal of Economic History
3801 Applied Economics, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 38 Economics, 3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5002 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields
The historical role of the corporation in society
December 2018
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Journal article
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Journal of the British Academy
This article charts the historical role of the corporation in society from antiquity to the present day. Using a broad temporal and transnational approach, it argues that social purpose has been a defining trait of the corporation since the concept of legal personhood first appeared in antiquity. The direct connection between incorporation and social purpose formally broke in the nineteenth century, when countries like the United Kingdom and United States introduced general incorporation laws. Yet many corporations continued to act positively on behalf of society on a voluntary basis even as they acted against the interests of workers, consumers, and the environment. This article demonstrates that concerns about corporate power have a long history, and that societies over time have designed a variety of legal systems and forms of corporate governance to address these concerns.
business, social purpose, company, corporation, social welfare, charity, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, business history, economic history
Call for papers: Special issue of Journal of Business Ethics: Special issue theme: “Linking corporate reputation and accountability: antecedents, mechanisms, paradoxes, and outcomes”
July 2017
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Other
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Journal of Business Ethics
The Engine of Enterprise
February 2016
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Book
Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity, Rowena Olegario probes questions that have divided Americans: Who should have access to credit?
Business & Economics
Introduction: Corporate reputation in historical perspective
Credit Information, Institutions, and International Trade
January 2013
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Chapter
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The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration
38 Economics, 4408 Political Science, 44 Human Society
Corporate Reputation and Regulation in Historical Perspective
July 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation
This article reviews the four areas where a significant or growing body of historical works exist: reputation mechanisms and self-regulation, the reputation of the corporate form, the reputation of regulatory bodies, and reputational capital within markets and hierarchies. Reputation mechanisms are an integral part of the phenomenon referred to as private ordering. The state increasingly replaced the regulatory power of reputation by acting out industry regulations to control corporations. Technology and regulation decreased the role of reputation in finance and confined it to the private guarantee of only a few small intermediaries. The shortcomings of the historical literature on corporate reputation are addressed. Reputation intermediaries and corporations' multiple reputations with different groups hold the promise of developing exciting new research in the history of corporate reputation.
corporate regulation; history
A Culture of Credit
June 2006
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Book
This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Using handbooks, newspapers, journal articles, political pamphlets, and the ledgers of the RG Dun Co., the book traces the evolution of credit reporting and how it shaped the culture of credit in the United States.
Business & Economics
Jewish Merchants, Creditworthiness, and Business Culture
January 2005
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Chapter
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Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays
Business, Economics
Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand-Building at Procter & Gamble
January 2004
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Book
Brand name products; Brand name products; Soap trade
Credit reporting agencies: A historical perspective
January 2003
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Chapter
Small Businesses
January 2001
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Chapter
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Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century: Abolition and Antislavery-Government
slavery; small business; America; USA
“That Mysterious People”: Jewish Merchants, Transparency, and Community in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
January 1999
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Journal article
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The Business History Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology