joint-stock company

business entity which is owned by shareholders
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joint-stock company

Summary

joint-stock company is a type of business entity[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of type_of_business_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,689 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • joint-stock company's instance of is recorded as type of business entity[3].
  • joint-stock company's main regulatory text is recorded as stock corporation law[4].
  • joint-stock company is a type of limited company[5].
  • joint-stock company's Commons category is recorded as Joint-stock companies[6].
  • joint-stock company's said to be the same as is recorded as S.A.[7].
  • joint-stock company is the opposite of non-stock corporation[8].
  • joint-stock company's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Joint-stock companies[9].
  • joint-stock company's notation is recorded as ⅍[10].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Sechster Band[14].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[15].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • joint-stock company's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • joint-stock company's different from is recorded as kabushiki gaisha[18].
  • joint-stock company's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '日本の株式会社はQ1480166を使用'}[19].

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Definition and Type

joint-stock company's instance of is recorded as type of business entity[3]. It is a type of limited company[5]. It is the opposite of non-stock corporation[8].

Why It Matters

joint-stock company ranks in the top 9% of type_of_business_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,689 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Notation
    Opposite of non-stock corporation
    Instance of type of business entity
    Encyclopædia britannica online id money/joint-stock-company
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13350, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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