Corporation (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same or a similar title.

•  Corporation_(general): A legal entity that is distinct from its owners and may employ people, buy and sell assets, and lend or borrow money; it is jointly owned by shareholders, who participate in its profits but are not personally liable for its debts. ^[e]
• Incorporation: The legal act of creating, establishing or founding a commercial, nonprofit or public corporation. The act is typically facilitated and symbolized by a constitutional document termed the articles of incorporation. ^[e]
• Company (business): Add brief definition or description
• Company foundation: A foundation created by a business corporation out of company earnings or profits. (Tax law often allows corporations to donate a limited amount for such purposes). Distinct from a family foundation created by members of a family-owned business out of their own personal wealth. ^[e]
•  Limited liability company: Legal form of business company that provides limited liability to its owners. ^[e]
• C Corporation: Add brief definition or description
• S Corporation: Add brief definition or description
•  Benefit_corporation: For-profit corporation chartered with responsibilities of providing shareholder value, but also benefit to the society; a.k.a. B-Corp ^[e]
• B Corporation: Add brief definition or description
•  Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Nonprofit, government-chartered quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization organization that receives and distributes funds, from the general treasury, to public broadcasting organizations (radio, television and new media) ^[e]
• Corporation for National and Community Service: Add brief definition or description
•  Nonprofit corporation: Any of a number of types of corporation recognized by tax authorities as subject to nondistribution constraints. ^[e]
• Corporate law: Add brief definition or description
• Corporatism: Add brief definition or description
• Incorporation (Constitutional law): Add brief definition or description
• Incorporation (Corporate law): Add brief definition or description
• Incorporation (a.k.a. inclusion): Add brief definition or description
•  Corporate person: legal entity through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if they were a single composite individual for certain purposes. ^[e]
•  Dummy corporation: A company created to serve as a front or cover for one or more legitimate companies. ^[e]

Companies with Corporation in their names:

•  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers: A.k.a. ICANN, the top-level international organization that directing the Domain Name System (DNS), Internet Protocol addresses, and other technical identifiers that must be unique for the proper operation of the Internet ^[e]
•  News Corporation: Owned by Rupert Murdoch, a news and entertainment conglomerate that owns or controls a large number of news media, publishers, television, and film outlets ^[e]
• RAND Corporation: Add brief definition or description