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The stockholders-of large corporations, through their elected board of directors, usually hire managers managers operate the firm efficiently and satisfy customers? Offering consumers value at a low cost is the ticket to profitability. In an owner-managed firm, the owner’s property right to the residual income provides a strong incentive both to reduce costs and to please consumers. This is not necessarily so for the managers of a corporation.
For a large corporation with many stockholders – millions in some cases – the situation is complex. Stockholders own the residual income (profits), but professional managers operate the firm. Stockholders want managers to cut costs while increasing output and revenues, but managers might want high salaries for themselves, large offices, first- class travel, and other expensive perks. They might also prefer the power and prestige associated with expanding the business (by taking over another firm, perhaps), even if it might reduce profitability. Can the stockholders control the actions of managers and direct them toward the pursuit of profitability? Direct control by many stockholders is unlikely. Few of them own enough shares to give them the incentive or information they would need to exercise direct control. Most find it too expensive even to attend the annual shareholders’ meeting, much less to monitor managers closely. Instead, stockholders elect a board of directors, which in turn appoints the company’s high-level managers. As the following series of posts describes, however, not all is lost when stockholders don’t directly run the company themselves. Internal corporate policies and competition for control of the firm by outsiders help mitigate principal-agent problems when managers run the company instead.

The business firms that are corporations account for more than 8.5 percent of total business revenue, even though they constitute only 20 percent of all firms. What accounts for the attractiveness of this business structure? From its start. by an Act of the British Parliament in 1862, the corporation, or “joint stock company,” as it is also called, grew in importance for two main reasons. First, although the stockholders of the corporation are the Iegal owners, their liability is limited to the value of their shares of the corporation. If a Corporation owes you money, you cannot directly sue the stockholders. Of course, you can sue the corporation. However, if a corporation goes bankrupt, you and others to whom the firm owes money may simply be out of luck. This limited liability makes it possible for corporations to attract investment funds from a large number of “owners” who do not participate in the day-to-day management of the firm.
Second, ownership can easily be transferred under the corporate structure. The shares, or ownership rights, of an owner who dies can be sold by the heirs to another owner without disrupting the business firm. Because of this, the corporation is an ongoing concern. Similarly, stockholders who become unhappy with the way a corporation is run can hail out merely by selling their stock.