公司是存在于特定社会的产物,其概念本身随着不同历史背景而不断演变。18世纪之前,Corporation所对应概念的内涵不仅仅限于经济范畴,由于源于价值观念的认同而具有一定政治属性以及道德属性。当时对于公司概念界定的方式属于“套套逻辑”用相近的词语相互印证,但赋予其现实属性,从而类别化“公司”的初期概念。 A company is a product of existence in a particular society, and its concept itself evolves with different historical backgrounds. Prior to the eighteenth century, the concept of Corporation connotation not only limited to economic categories, due to the recognition of values ​​and have a certain political and moral attributes. The way in which the concept of the firm was defined at that time belonged to the “set of logic,” which contrasted with similar terms, but given their real-world attributes, thereby classifying the initial concept of “firm.”