Research

Corporate Governance in the 19th Century: Evidence from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

Authors

• Gary Previts
• Robert Russ
• Edward N. Coffman

Published

Accounting Historians Journal , December 2009

Website

http://www.aahhq.org

Abstract

Use of a stockholder review committee by the C&O shareholders shows how the stockholders used this committee to supplement corporate governance structure. The structure is also reviewed from the structure espoused by Hart in 1995.