The public rivalry between regulated and joint stock corporations and the development of seventeenth-century corporate constitutions

Public rivalry between regulated and joint stock corporations

Bibliographic Data

ID4922646
AuthorsWilliam A Pettigrew (University of Kent), Tristan Stein (University of Kent)
Year2017
Volume90
Issue248
Pages341-362
Publication date2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistorical Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-2281.12172
OpenAlexW2565238035
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

This article analyses the public debates about the two corporate forms used in the seventeenth century to develop England's international commercial reach: the regulated and joint stock company. It examines pamphlets to assess the changing public postures of the two forms across the period, and challenges histories of seventeenth-century English overseas trade that argue the triumph of free trade over monopoly. The article instead suggests that the public debate about the two company forms contributed to the development of new corporate constitutions derived from both models and therefore recovers the neglected significance of the regulated company in this period

Economic history · Economics · Economy · Joint-stock company · Listed company · Market economy · Monopoly · Rivalry · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Scottish History and National Identity · Accounting

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