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- Title
The nature of the firm and peculiarities of the corporation.
- Authors
Lawson, Tony
- Abstract
Insights from social ontology are utilised to provide a novel, or at least clarified, conception of the firm. The latter is shown to be a particular form of social entity that is both of an economic and legal nature. The limited company or ‘corporation’ is shown to be a specific form of firm. A central distinguishing feature of the argument is that positioning matters in social identity constitution and different sorts of phenomena are positioned in different ways. The company/corporation is constituted in a manner that is a hybrid of other forms of positioning. Notions such as legal fiction and legal personality that abound in the related literature, often in confused ways, are also clarified. Various consequences are drawn for further analyses at the levels of method, theory and policy.
- Subjects
COASE, R. H. (Ronald Harry), 1910-2013; CORPORATIONS; JURISTIC persons; FICTIONS (Law); OBLIGATIONS (Law); LAWSON, T.; ONTOLOGY -- Social aspects
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/beu046