Institutional Change Of The Virginia Company Of London(1606-1624)

The establishment of early modern England chartered companies of the UK has produced profound influence to the modern social transformation.The Virginia company of London is one of many franchise in the UK a case,it is not only a joint types of franchise company,is a microcosm of the modern joint-stock company predecessor.The company mainly for the purpose of colonial,it a series of system has an important influence on the development of the British North American colonies.Current research on this problem of domestic scholars rarely involved,foreign scholars have long focused on,but there is no institutional change in the Virginia company made systematic study,therefore,this article choose the Virginia company institutional change as the research object,have certain academic value.The London Virginia company was founded in 1606,is the scope of its main activities in the Americas,aimed at called Virginia region to establish a colony at the time,so the companys operating mainly affected by the rise and fall of a colony.The Virginia Company of London established Jamestown was the first colony in the Americas,and then spreading,formed by a dozen settlements of colony.After 19 years,the companys system successively on the basis of the king issued three charters do the corresponding adjustment,but still cannot solve the company's huge debt problem,the company interior also divided into two sides fight each other,finally in 1624,the charter was recovered by the King,the company disintegrated.In this paper,besides introduction and conclusion,the subject of chapter 4,respectively,for the establishment of the Virginia company of London,the London Virginia company corporate,the London Virginia company system of adjustment and dissolution and transformation of the Virginia company of London.In the preface,this paper explains the foundation of the topic,discriminates the key conception and core professional term,combs the domestic and foreign studies on legal person problem of the Virginia Company of London,introduces some original documents of this paper and clarifies the theory and method of the author's research and the main contents.The establishment of the first chapter for the Virginia Company Of London.Mainly elaborated the Virginia Company of London set up under the background,as well as first charter of the system of the company.Mainly discusses the concept of British colonial North America in the background of the rise,and under the background of the Virginia company how to establish the process;System section in the company,mainly through 1616 charter and company a series of instructions from the original system design and the landing location principle.The second chapter is the corporatization of the Virginia Company of London.This paper mainly discusses the Virginia Company to apply for a second reason and process of charter,and on the basis of the second charter how to adjust the Virginia company system.The second charter is the Virginia Company to become a legal entity,has a series of rights,and undertaking corresponding obligations.The third chapter for the London Virginia company system adjustment.After first discussed the company become a legal entity,began to adopt the way of the governor to manage colonies,and then describes the colonies of the development of three under colonial rule,and during that time,companies began to privatization of land problems.Then discusses the company to apply for the reason of the third charter,and after the third charter enacted,the system of the company is how to adjust the content;In addition also discussed the company a significant reform in 1618.The fourth chapter is the Virginia Company of London dissolution and transformation.In the first section discusses the company within faction struggles,external again after the massacre,gradually towards disintegration.The second section discusses the process of company dissolution,charter and the king back to Virginia,Virginia colony of reorganizationEpilogue part aimed to institutional changes in the Virginia company of London summary and generalization.