Chapter 1 Shareholder Advocacy and the Development of the Corporation: The Timeless Dilemmas of an Age-old Solution

Chapter 2 An Admiralty for Asia: Business Organization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in the Dutch Republic, 1590–1640

Chapter 3 Shareholder Activists Avant la Lettre: The “Complaining Participants” in the Dutch East India Company, 1622–1625

Chapter 4 The Great Expropriation: Interpreting the Innovation of “Permanent Capital” at the Dutch East India Company

Chapter 5 Litigation Plus Regulation: The Protection of Investor Rights in Late-Medieval Venice

Chapter 6 Shareholder Activism in the Virginia Company of London, 1606–1624

Chapter 7 Shareholders’ Rights in the Early Italian Companies: Agency Problems and Legal Strategies

Chapter 8 Compagnie des Indes: Governance and Bailout

Chapter 9 The Rise and Fall of the Rishengchang bank model: Limiting Shareholder Influence to Attract Capital

Chapter 10 A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse

Chapter 11 Corporate Governance and Stockholder/Stakeholder Activism in the United States, 1790–1860: New Data and Perspectives

Chapter 12 Origins of “Offensive” Shareholder Activism in the United States

Chapter 13 Contemporary Issues in Shareholder Advocacy