The Corporation as a Relational Entity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abraham Singer (0000-0002-6833-1995, University of Rochester, corresponding author), Abraham A Singer |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-351 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/691795 |
| OpenAlex | W2605044250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
Are corporations merely composites of individuals, which then take on the rights and duties of individuals, or are they concessions from a sovereign government and therefore subject to popular control? The latter view in this perennial debate has been particularly influential to those who see the idea of corporate personhood as fundamentally anti-democratic and destructive. While sympathetic to the goals of these critics, this paper aims to show that "corporate personality" is not, in itself, a dangerous or malignant concept. I attempt to revive a long-dormant view of corporations that says they are real entities that depend upon the actions of both individuals and states but are reducible to neither. I argue that this realness is grounded in the specific sorts of relationships that corporations are functionally dependent upon. This relational approach to corporate personality helps us understand how normative and critical political theory should approach the corporation
Business · Corporation · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Legal fiction · Normative · Personality · Personhood · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subject (documents · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Institutions and Social Conflict
Violence and Social Orders
The Historic Background of Corporate Legal Personality
Motivation Crowding Theory
The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability
What Is the Point of Equality?
Rethinking the Very Idea of Egalitarian Markets and Corporations
Neither Persons nor Associations
What is Social Equality? An Analysis of Status Equality as a Strongly Egalitarian Ideal
The Nature of the Firm
Radical Justice
Social capital, civil society and development
A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law
Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange
Origins of the American Business Corporation
The New Institutionalism
Beyond Public and Private
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |