The Neglected Benefits of the Corporate Form: Entity Status and the Separation of Asset Ownership from Control

Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Blair, Margaret M ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracts; Corporate law; Ownership and control; Singer; Theory of the firm; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919650676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269761.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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