Literary notes about corporate (AI summary)
The term "corporate" has been employed in literature to denote a sense of collective unity and organized structure, encompassing both metaphorical and literal applications. In sociological works—most notably those by Burgess and Park—it appears as "corporate action," a term used to describe how consensus or unified behavior emerges among individuals, imbuing social phenomena with a quality that transcends mere cooperation [1], [2], [3], [4]. In political and economic discourse, as seen in The Communist Manifesto and The Jewish State, "corporate" identifies structured entities such as guilds or formal bodies that exercise power and control within society [5], [6], [7]. Moreover, literary texts offering more symbolic narratives incorporate the term to evoke extended qualities; for instance, Edgar Allan Poe portrays a "corporate Silence" and speaks of a divested "corporate investiture" that elevates a character almost to a divine status [8], [9]. Even in discussions of military virtue and statecraft—as in the works of Clausewitz and Rousseau—the idea of a corporate will or spirit is central to expressing integrated collective forces [10], [11]. Finally, in modern contexts, "corporate" extends its scope to represent formal organizational entities within the business and technological spheres [12], [13], [14].