Enterprise Corporatism - New Industrial-Policy and the Essence of the Legal Person
Enterprise Corporatism - New Industrial-Policy and the Essence of the Legal Person
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企业法团主义——新产业政策与法人本质
DOI:
10.2307/840187
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
G. Teubner
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作者:
G. Teubner
The legal person has become an inert person indeed. While in the 19th century it was a fiery fighter for political and economic freedoms against government regulation, today it is no longer trusted with any role in major economic policy controversies. What can the legal person, of all persons, possibly contribute to current issues such as the "new industrial divide," the European choice between "Americanization" and "Japanization" of industrial organization, the strategies of new flexibility, and the "management of uncertainty"?' The search for the "essence" of the legal person, which has fascinated whole generations of lawyers, has now been tacitly abandoned due to an everyday familiarity with this legal entity. Today the legal person is having to pay the price of success: nobody is interested in its essence any longer, and, despite warnings to the contrary, it is no longer taken seriously, not even when the issue involved is the famous "piercing of the corporate veil" that so inflames the legal imagination.2 To be sure, there have been some recent attempts to rediscover the political dimensions of the legal person.3 In an impressive rein-