business organization, an entity formed for the purpose of carrying on commercial enterprise. Such an organization is predicated on systems of law governing contract and exchange, …

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In Anglo-American common-law countries, public and private companies account for most of the business associations formed, and partnerships are entered into typically only for professional …

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When the magazine began losing money in the late 1960s, he formed Virgin Mail Order Records (so named because Branson considered himself inexperienced in business) to raise funds, …

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John P. Davis, Corporations: A Study of the Origin and Development of Great Business Combinations and Their Relation to the Authority of the State, 2 vol. (1905, reprinted 1971), …

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A corporation is a legal form of business organization, chartered by a state, that exists as a separate entity from its owners. In the United States, the default corporate form is the C …