The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

By John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge. 2003

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Institutional open access at home and outward internationalization (2015, unknown): “Legal rights help entrepreneurs use the corporate form to maximize profits and limit liabilities (Micklethwait & Wooldridge, 2005), and protect investors and creditors from expropriation (La Porta et al., 2000).”
Extending the Horizons: Environmental Excellence as Key to Improving Operations (2006, background): “In particular, the widespread, international movement toward limited-liability joint-stock firms has allowed for unparalleled growth while simultaneously creating complex tensions among investors, employees, and society (Micklethwait and Wooldridge 2003).”
Private Equity and the Culture of Value Extraction (2007, background): “The public company and the idea of stock-market capitalism do have their defenders when authors like John Micklethwaite and Adrian Wooldridge celebrate the public company as a great twentieth century invention.(12) But, from the 1980s onwards, the public company was seen as problematic for mainstrea”