This paper develops and tests a structural investment model nesting the Q theory and ...ve distortions: contract-induced CEO myopia, empire building, shirking, debt overhang, and ‡otation costs. Supporting the empire building hypothesis, founders’ (non-founders’) investment is consistent with their deriving an annual bene...t of $3.30 ($0.40) per $1000 of capital. Evidence of contract-induced m...

Despite the ubiquity of barcodes there exists no common product repository available today linking product master data to the corresponding barcodes. This paper proposes a social network game (Product Empire) that motivates users to scan barcodes and to enter basic product information, such as product name, brand and category and to upload a picture of the product. This user-generated product r...

Before the 1980s, the powerful link between empire and race was marginalised in British imperial history. The postcolonial 'turn' opened up new ways of exploring racial constructions of colonised subjects and stimulated debate over the extent to which representations of the colonised in colonial discourse underpinned imperial power. In Race and Empire, based on an AHRB/C-funded research project...