External Entities and Internal Aggregates: A Deconstructionist Conundrum
29 Pages Posted: 1 Jul 2009
Date Written: June 28, 2009
Abstract
Today the goal of many physicists, whether working with what are some of the largest machines ever built such as the newly christened Large Hadron Collider or with the rather more simple chalk and blackboard, is to develop a single unified theory that will explain the characteristics of the most elemental particles and integrating the four elemental forces, bringing together Heisenberg's Quantum Theory and Einstein's General Relativity. The law of business organizations lacks a similar goal of unification. Rather, we find ourselves continuously mixing, sometimes matching and sometimes not, aspects of business entity law, adding or removing features to various forms of organization without the benefit of a conceptual framework as to whether, across the range of business organization forms, we have made or are making progress. Now the question of "progress" must be distinguished from "motion," and I submit that it, at a minimum, needs to be debated whether the mixing and recombination of features has been motion without a preconceived determination of what will be progress.
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