Matthew C. Godfrey discusses one example of the history of corporation and the Church, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
Matthew C. Godfrey, Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007)
[Matthew C. Godfrey explores how the Church's involvement in the sugar industry, particularly through the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, led to tensions with the federal government.]