Specters, Inc.: The elusive basis of the corporation

Veldman, Jeroen and Parker, Martin 2012. Specters, Inc.: The elusive basis of the corporation. Business and Society Review 117 (4) , pp. 413-441. 10.1111/j.1467-8594.2012.00413.x

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Abstract

In this article we discuss the political and economic consequences of the contemporary legal theory of incorporation. We argue that incorporation has developed historically in a way that makes it internally inconsistent, but that this inconsistency is useful for the powerful because of its legal and economic effects. The corporation can “shape shift,” which is very helpful for claiming some rights and disavowing certain responsibilities. Of course this flexibility comes at the expense of consistent concepts and this leads to the creation of what we term an “ideal-type reified singular representation.” We go on to show the far-reaching effects of this representation for legal studies, economics, and political theory, and show it worked in the pro-corporate decision in the recent Citizens United case. We conclude by providing several alternative ways to think about the nature of corporate organization.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0045-3609
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 09:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/51193

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