Professor Tae-Hee Jo
Intermediate Microeconomics
14th November 2017
Summary of an article “Continued Evolution of Corporate Power” by William M. Dugger
A corporation is very different from other form of businesses like sole proprietorship, Partnership, or Limited Liability Company. For example, while other form of businesses have particular owner entitled to the company, corporations doesn’t have owners, rather it is formed by the shareholders. In other words, Corporation is formed when it is consolidated by groups of investors who have responsibility for company, determined by the holdings of particular corporation stocks. In today’s world, these top corporations have become very large and uncontrollable that our economy is now more reliant to these giants for well-being and ills rather than governments. Meaning, these corporations have become so much powerful that they mostly control our …show more content…
Economic pondering questions of business organization has been involved with markets for merchandise, has assumed that business behavior in every market is explicable as an endeavor to maximize profits there, has understood monopolistic markets as involving the exercise of variable degrees of monopoly power by one or a lot of business enterprises, and has appraised issues of monopoly power within the lightweight of sure conceptions of noncompetitive exploitation on one hand, and sure conceptions of business potency, on the opposite. The growth of varied massive enterprise has created this abstract theme. It's going to possess power during a specific market not solely by virtue of its place within the organization of that market but additionally by virtue of the scope and character of its activities elsewhere. It may be ready to exploit, extend, or defend its power by tactics nevertheless people who area unit historically related to the idea of