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 :I reverted you since this article is about joint-stock companies, not corporations. The paragraph you removed had a good citation. One of your statements seems bizarre to me: ""Only if shareholders have control of the corporate decisions can they possibly be considered owners. They do not. Their vote in practice is ineffectual in determining Board of Director composition."" I don't see why ""control of the corporate decisions"" or ""determining Board of Director composition"" should have any bearing on the question of who owns the thing.   "