{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1584617006","doi":null,"title":"Nexus of Contracts Corporation: A Critical Appraisal","display_name":"Nexus of Contracts Corporation: A Critical Appraisal","publication_year":1989,"publication_date":"1989-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1584617006","mag":"1584617006"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.law.miami.edu:fac_articles-1869","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles/872","pdf_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1869&context=fac_articles","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196784","display_name":"University of Miami School of Law Institutional Repository (University of Miami)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I145608581","host_organization_name":"University of Miami","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145608581"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Articles","raw_type":"text"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1869&context=fac_articles","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5009248220","display_name":"William W. Bratton","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5232-259X","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5232-259X"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"William W. Bratton","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5009248220"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":20.1626,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":140,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.98547046,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":"74","issue":"3","first_page":"407","last_page":"465"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12982","display_name":"Legal principles and applications","score":0.4431000053882599,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3308","display_name":"Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12982","display_name":"Legal principles and applications","score":0.4431000053882599,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3308","display_name":"Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14102","display_name":"Corporate Governance and Law","score":0.2542000114917755,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1408","display_name":"Strategy and Management"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11762","display_name":"Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems","score":0.09220000356435776,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2002","display_name":"Economics and Econometrics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/20","display_name":"Economics, Econometrics and Finance"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/theory-of-the-firm","display_name":"theory of the firm","score":0.8090000152587891},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/corporate-law","display_name":"corporate law","score":0.5049999952316284},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/individual-versus-group","display_name":"individual versus group","score":0.5540000200271606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/business-organization","display_name":"business organization","score":0.37400001287460327},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/legal-entities","display_name":"legal persons","score":0.6700000166893005},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/inter-firm-cooperation","display_name":"inter-firm cooperation","score":0.546999990940094}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C148609458","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7021281","display_name":"Nexus (standard)","level":2,"score":0.8952947854995728},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778348171","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167037","display_name":"Corporation","level":2,"score":0.71433424949646},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C152541439","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5186693","display_name":"Critical appraisal","level":3,"score":0.6474003791809082},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144133560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830453","display_name":"Business","level":0,"score":0.4334963858127594},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.3700975775718689},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C190253527","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295354","display_name":"Law and economics","level":1,"score":0.3330705165863037},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C10138342","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43015","display_name":"Finance","level":1,"score":0.18304479122161865},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.15667778253555298},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.059924423694610596},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C149635348","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193040","display_name":"Embedded system","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142724271","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7208","display_name":"Pathology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204787440","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188504","display_name":"Alternative medicine","level":2,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":4,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.law.miami.edu:fac_articles-1869","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles/872","pdf_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1869&context=fac_articles","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196784","display_name":"University of Miami School of Law Institutional Repository (University of Miami)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I145608581","host_organization_name":"University of Miami","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145608581"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Articles","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:scholarship.law.cornell.edu:clr-3409","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol74/iss3/1","pdf_url":"https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3409&context=clr","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402381","display_name":"Scholarship @ Cornell Law (Cornell University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Cornell Law Review","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:scholarship.law.upenn.edu:faculty_scholarship-1838","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/839","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196469","display_name":"Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository (University of Pennsylvania)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I79576946","host_organization_name":"University of Pennsylvania","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I79576946"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"All Faculty Scholarship","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"mag:1584617006","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://paperity.org/p/81319205/nexus-of-contracts-corporation-a-critical-appraisal","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S194663980","display_name":"Cornell law review/The Cornell law quarterly","issn_l":"0010-8847","issn":["0010-8847"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["abdc-a-star","jufo-2","norway-1","poland-140","russia-white-list-1"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315954","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315954"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cornell University"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Cornell law review/\u0098The \u009cCornell law quarterly","raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.law.miami.edu:fac_articles-1869","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/fac_articles/872","pdf_url":"https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1869&context=fac_articles","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196784","display_name":"University of Miami School of Law Institutional Repository (University of Miami)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I145608581","host_organization_name":"University of Miami","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145608581"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Articles","raw_type":"text"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.666700005531311,"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W1584617006.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W1584617006.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1648982797","https://openalex.org/W7098927444","https://openalex.org/W2089812888","https://openalex.org/W2165008051","https://openalex.org/W2510929465","https://openalex.org/W4388417341","https://openalex.org/W7126890762","https://openalex.org/W1578614332","https://openalex.org/W2307489789","https://openalex.org/W3215130785"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0],"fundamental":[1],"question":[2,105],"in":[3,54],"any":[4],"theory":[5],"of":[6,14,31,76,96,106],"the":[7,11,17,20,26,29,34,37,61,74,94,97,104],"firm":[8,27],"is":[9,16,57],"whether":[10],"appropriate":[12,108],"unit":[13],"analysis":[15],"individual":[18,35],"or":[19],"group.For":[21],"a":[22],"positive":[23],"gloss":[24],"on":[25],"and":[28,36,51],"problem":[30],"conflict":[32],"between":[33,49],"group":[38],"see":[39],"VinogradoffJuridical":[40],"Persons,":[41],"24":[42],"COLUM.L.":[43],"REV.594,":[44],"594":[45],"(1924)":[46],"(\"An":[47],"adjustment":[48],"selfish":[50],"altruistic":[52],"tendencies":[53],"social":[55],"life":[56],"rendered":[58],"possible":[59],"by":[60,69,73],"fact":[62],"that":[63],"men":[64],"are":[65],"allied":[66],"not":[67],"only":[68],"moral":[70],"insight":[71],"but":[72],"necessities":[75],"business":[77],"cooperation.\").2":[78],"Nevertheless":[79],"corporate":[80],"law":[81],"presupposes":[82],"some":[83,89],"theoretical":[84],"conception:":[85],"\"[W]e":[86],"must":[87],"make":[88],"pre-legal":[90],"cognitive":[91],"peace":[92],"with":[93],"phenomenon":[95],"organization":[98],"before":[99],"we":[100],"can":[101],"intelligibly":[102],"tackle":[103],"its":[107],"normative":[109],"treatment.\"":[110]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":19},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":15},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":9},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}