California's Flexible Purpose Corporation: A Step Forward, a Step Back, or No Step at All?

Authors

Christen Clarke

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The roads of social welfare and commercial enterprise have come to an intersection in recent years. Laws governing corporations are expanding to make room for new forms of business entities that seek to satisfy both social and financial goals. The two most prominent “hybrid” business forms are the Low-Profit Limited Liability Company and the Benefit Corporation. The newest hybrid entity to take effect is the Flexible Purpose Corporation, which was introduced in California at the beginning of 2012. With the existence of hybrid organizations that already fit into the mold of Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, is there really a need for this new Flexible Purpose Corporation entity?

Recommended Citation

Christen Clarke, California's Flexible Purpose Corporation: A Step Forward, a Step Back, or No Step at All?, 5 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. Iss. 2 (2012)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/jbel/vol5/iss2/4