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A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Simon Deakin ,
David Gindis Open the ORCID record for David Gindis [Opens in a new window]  and
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Simon Deakin
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law and Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
David Gindis
Affiliation:
Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, Hatfield, UK
Geoffrey M. Hodgson*
Affiliation:
Emeritus, Loughborough University London, Institute of International Management, Stratford, London, UK
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Despite agreement on many points, including our shared insistence that ‘corporation’ and ‘firm’ are different concepts, Jean-Philippe Robé still maintains that they are mutually exclusive: no corporation is a firm, and no firm is a corporation. In contrast, we follow standard nomenclature when we point out that all (business) corporations are firms, but some firms are not corporations. We show here that this is a standard practice among lawyers writing in leading law journals and note that Robé seems to have abandoned the task of defining the firm.

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Business corporationsfirmslegal institutionalismlegal personalityB52D20K10L20
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , August 2022 , pp. 703 - 706
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Millennium Economics Ltd.

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