A memorable example of these sorts of schemes " involved the idea of running the poor through a joint-stock company ".

* Akcionersko društvo ( aкционерско друштво ), a joint-stock company, in Macedonia

In a joint-stock company the members are known as shareholders and their share in the ownership, control and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own.

Thus a person who owns a quarter of the shares of a joint-stock company owns a quarter of the company, is entitled to a quarter of the profit ( or at least a quarter of the profit given to shareholders as dividends ) and has a quarter of the votes capable of being cast at general meetings.

: The Court the East India Company you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor ; while the ' Daily News ' and my Lord Ellenborough of India, 1841-44 are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty ... motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift — which is always a favour — by any joint-stock company among her subjects.

The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası ) was founded in 1930, as a privileged joint-stock company.

Complex Marriage was abandoned in 1879 following external pressures and the community soon broke apart with some of the members reorganizing as a joint-stock company.

The British East India Company was an English and later ( from 1707 ) British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent.

The Dutch East India Company ( founded in 1602 ) was the first joint-stock company to get a fixed capital stock and as a result, continuous trade in company stock emerged on the Amsterdam Exchange.

* Plymouth Company, an English joint-stock company founded by King James I in 1606 to establish coastal settlements on North America

* Aktsionernoye obschestvo, a Russian corporate entity similar to a joint-stock company

In 1975 the factory was consolidated in the AvtoZAZ holding, which was transformed into joint-stock company in 1990s.

The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt.

In a notable example of crossover between stock companies and banks, the Bank of England, which opened in 1694, was a joint-stock company.

In 1916, the House of Fabergé became a joint-stock company with a capital of 3-million rubles.

Bayerische Flugzeugwerke ( BFW ) ( Bavarian Aircraft Works ) was reformed in 1926, in Augsburg, Bavaria, when Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH was changed into a joint-stock company.

About pushed this idea to invent the story of a brigand chief who converts his business into a registered joint-stock company.

The company operating the airport is Prague Airport ( Letiště Praha, a. s .), a joint-stock company that has one shareholder, the Ministry of Finance.

On 25 June 1990, the production association was transformed into an open joint-stock company.

Gemeinschaft may be exemplified historically by a family or a neighborhood in a pre-modern ( rural ) society ; Gesellschaft by a joint-stock company or a state in a modern society, i. e. the society when Tönnies lived.

By 1850, Parliament had enacted several statutes on a case-by-case basis to deal with issues regularly faced by certain types of organizations, like joint-stock companies, and with the impetus for most types of group litigation removed, it went into a steep decline in English jurisprudence from which it never recovered.

According to Charles MacKay, this had little effect on the creation of " Bubbles ", ephemeral joint-stock companies created during the hysteria of the times.

In 1709 Davenant published Reflections upon the Constitution and Management of Trade to Africa, in which he “ reverted to his normal attitude of suspicion and outright hostility towards the Dutch .” This pamphlet advocated renewing the Royal African Company ’ s monopoly on slave trade on the basis that the Dutch competition “ necessitated the maintenance of forts, which only a joint-stock company could afford .” Waddell states that there had been close collaboration between the company and Davenant and that he may have been compensated for writing it.

The airline was established on 25 July 1988 as a joint-stock company, but had to wait two years before it could start services, due to a delay in air transport liberalization.

The primary and most profitable whaling grounds of this joint-stock company came to be centered around Spitsbergen in the early 17th century, and the company's royal charter of 1613 granted a monopoly on whaling in Spitsbergen, based on the ( erroneous ) claim that Hugh Willoughby had discovered the land in 1553.

The first shares list appeared in June 1866 and by then Shanghai's International Settlement had developed the conditions conducive to the emergence of a share market: several banks, a legal framework for joint-stock companies, and an interest in diversification among the established trading houses ( although the trading houses themselves remained partnerships ).

By 1588, the Levant Company had been converted to a regulated monopoly on an established trade, from its initial character as a joint-stock company.

The East India Company was established in 1600 as a joint-stock company of English merchants who received, by a series of charters, exclusive rights to English trade with the " Indies ", defined as the lands lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan ; the term " India " had been derived from the name of a river, the Indus, long important to commerce and civilization in the region.

Companies and organizations registered in the region include 1153 joint-stock companies, 63 investment institutions, 34 commercial banks, 35 insurance companies, 1 voucher investment fund, 1 investment fund, 17 nongovernmental pension funds, 2 associations of professional stock market dealers, and 3 exchanges ( stock, currency, and agricultural ).

Following the 1978 reforms, the People's Republic of China instituted what it calls a " socialist market economy ", in which most of the economy is under state ownership, but the state enterprises are reorganized into joint-stock companies where various government agencies own controlling shares through a shareholder system.

The " Big Four " were joint-stock public companies and they continued to run the railway system until 31 December 1947.

These early canals were constructed, owned, and operated by private joint-stock companies.

" It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians.

They dissolved a number of petitions for patents and charters, and abolished more than 80 joint-stock companies of dubious merit.

This was the usual set-up for Dutch joint-stock companies at the time.

Like modern joint-stock companies, the publicani were legal bodies independent of their members whose ownership was divided into shares, or partes.

The current article incorporates information about both the brand and the joint-stock successor of AZLK for the sake of simplicity.

A result of these events was the Bubble Act, which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.

But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

During the night, a phone company technician had deadened the bells and installed red blinkers on the phones.

The men of our company had a dozen fights defending your name.

He had become the center of the company, such stories he had to tell.

Letch had made it abundantly clear that he did not care for the company of my own precious daughter.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

A road had to be hacked through trackless forests between Hanover and Portsmouth to permit Governor Wentworth and a company of gentlemen to attend the first Dartmouth commencement in 1771.

The directors sold directly to concessionaires, who had to make their profits above the high prices asked by the company.

The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

Stuart had been laid off at the produce company and had to go back to sitting in his father's office, taking what salary his father could hand out to him.

He was not reduced to poverty, but his job at the steel company had become a real job and not a method of passing the day.

So when old Mr. Lovejoy, the company president, talked about putting in a single sales manager for both branches after the head of the regular steels had gone with Carnegie-Illinois, it looked like the perfect chance for Bobbie.

But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.