CONTENTS



4 Contributors to this issue
8 Editorial
Blanche SEGRESTIN


WHAT STANDARDS FOR BUSINESS?


BUSINESS OBJECTS AND RULES: GENEALOGY OF SOME KEY CONCEPTS


14 "My name is nobody": the construction of legal personality or the virtues of patience
Edward RICHARD
45 Subordination and "revolutions" of labor and employment law (1776-2010)
Philippe LEFEBVRE
79 Making do with imperfect law: Small Firms in France and Germany, 1890-1935
Timothy W. Guinnane and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
96 From the diversity of accounting practices with the purpose of accounting: the case of L'Air Liquide (1902-1939)
Karine Fabre
111 Management of public companies since the late nineteenth century: the right maintains the confusion of practices
Hervé JOLY


CRISES AND PARADOXES OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAW AND BUSINESS


126 Can we share the management of the company? Back on the "democratic enterprise"
Sébastien GAND et Blanche SEGRESTIN

141 The Explosion of Executive Pay and the Erosion of American Prosperity
William LAZONICK

165 Limited liability of shareholders and corporate social responsibility
Jean-Philippe ROBÉ

RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: WHAT PROPOSALS FOR THE POST-CRISIS?


184 The legal reality of the company. Reflections on the right perception of material reality of the company
Charley HANNOUN
194 The Social and Legal Foundations of Managerial Authority
Robert FREELAND
218 The company, a modern invention waiting for right?
Blanche SEGRESTIN and Armand HATCHUEL

DISCUSSION


234 What governance for "the company post-crisis"?
with Olivier FAVEREAU , Pierre-Yves GOMEZ,  Amelie RAFAEL, Denis RANQUE and Alessandro STANZIANI
Interview by Frédérique CHAVE and Blanche SEGRESTIN


DOCUMENT


240 How to avoid "fictitious profits" and oversee the distribution of dividends? Bill of 1838, the Companies Acts of 1856 and 1867
by Nelly HISSUNG-CONVERT


CHRONIC


In reading the thesis and HDR
247 Thibault Daudigeos
Make the company responsible neoliberal: the role of institutional logic and functional experts
by Franck AGGERI
249Paul Lagneau-Ymonet
Between market and state, the stockbrokers. A sociohistoire economic intermediation official at the Paris Stock Exchange
by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur
251 Nicolas Marty
The relationship between standards and markets: the construction of the quality of bottled water in Europe nineteenth-century
by Patrick Fridenson
253 News archives
The U.S. Tobacco Companies' Archives on the Web
256 Wink
The shareholder, the manager and the employee
Gérard MATHIEU
257 News
259 Books Received
260 Abstracts
110 List of back issues of Business History and
268 2010 Subscriptions