Trust (business) (English Wikipedia)

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  • "trust". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.). "A group of companies, industries, etc., organized to reduce or eliminate competition, or to control production and distribution for their common advantage. Also: spec. such a group with a governing body of trustees holding a majority of the stock of each participating company, and therefore having a controlling vote in their conduct."

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  • Orbach, Barak; Campbell Rebling, Grace E. (2012-05-17). "The Antitrust Curse of Bigness" (PDF). Southern California Law Review. 85 (605) (published 2012): 610. Retrieved 2018-04-05. Standard Oil continued expanding uninterruptedly, but state laws and organizational complexities made its size an impediment. Samuel Calvin Tait Dodd, who served as Standard Oil's general solicitor from 1881 to 1905,[...] devised a solution. He created a legal instrument to manage size — the 'trust.'[...] In January 1882, Dodd converted the common-law apparatus to a corporate device that would promote the accumulation of capital and managerial efficiency.