This collection of cutting- edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The authors draw on cultural theory, anthropology, political theory, and legal history to consider the place of the firm in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American society. ÍNDICE: Introduction Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia: Crossing Corporate Boundaries Part I: The Corporate Project 1.Naomi R. Lamoreaux: Partnerships, Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in US History: An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture. 2.Colleen A. Dunlavy: >From Partners to Plutocrats: Nineteenth-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation 3.Kenneth Lipartito: The Utopian Corporation 4.Gerald Berk: Whose Hubris? Brandeis, Scientific Management, and the Railroads Part II: Corporate-State Interdependencies 5.Louis Galambos: The Monopoly Enigma, the Reagan Administration's Antitrust Experiment, and the Global Economy 6.David M. Hart: Corporate Technological Capabilities and the State: A Dynamic Historical Interaction 7.David B. Sicilia: The Corporation Under Seige: Social Movements, Regulation, Public Relations, and Tort Law since World War II Part III: The Business of Identity 8.Charles Dellheim: The Business of Jews 9.Juliet E. K. Walker: White Corporate America: The New Arbiter of Race? 10.Melissa Fisher: Wall Street Women's Herstories 11.Eric Guthey: New Economy Romanticism, Narratives of Corporate Personhood, and the Antimanagerial Impulse Afterword Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia: Towards New Renderings