Corporation
（重定向自Incorporated business）
![McDonald's Corporation is one of the most recognizable corporations in the world.](/Images/godic/202501/20/New_McDonald's_restaurant_in_Mount_Pleasant,_Iowa2439.jpg")
![1/8 share of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated June 16, 1288.](/Images/godic/202501/20/Stora_Kopparberg_12882439.jpg")
![A bond issued by the Dutch East India Company, dating from 1623, for the amount of 2,400 florins](/Images/godic/202501/20/Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond2439.jpg")
![Chart of the South Sea Company's stock prices. The rapid inflation of the stock value in the 1710s led to the Bubble Act 1720, which restricted the establishment of companies without a Royal Charter.](/Images/godic/202501/20/South-sea-bubble-chart2440.png")
A corporation is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. Early incorporated entities were established by charter (i.e. by an ad hoc act granted by a monarch or passed by a parliament or legislature). Most jurisdictions now allow the creation of new corporations through registration.