Scandals of corporate governance in the United States and Europe in the aftermath of theTMTbubblecaptured thepublic imagination. Inplay were the interests of senior executives in relation to investors, prompting debate over countries’ standards of corporate governance in the global market place. Ahold was (and is) an especially important instance, involving significant internal accounting and r...

This paper examines the financial sector preconditions for the successful development of a high technology sector. It argues that there is a close relation between types of activities undertaken in different countries and their institutional structures. A distinguishing characteristic of the financing of high technology firms is their evolving pattern of control by different investor groups. Wh...

The post-pandemic economy is like the Mona Lisa. Each time you look, see something different. Following chaos in banking industry, many analysts are now convinced world heading for a “hard-landing” recession. Few seem to expect “no-landing” scenario, which remains untroubled by rising interest rates—a fashionable opinion just weeks ago and one itself supplanted common view late 2022 that mild r...

This paper critically examines and explains the increasingly influential idea of ‘global governance’. After outlining the evolving intentional order and the new actors that are prominent part of contemporary governance structures, I assess the implication of these developments for the state.

The word ‘governance’ is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on ‘good governance’. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of ‘global governance’. The European Union issues a White Paper on ‘Governance’. The US Forest Service calls for ‘collaborative governance’. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term ‘governance’ and to what does...

Whilst the global governance architecture for the Internet has evolved at pace in the last ten years the EU's role and influence in its formation and development has been relatively understudied. This paper contributes to closing this gap in the literature through an investigation of how the EU has sought to shape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its quest for ...

in his perspective “navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. this comment sets out how the application of a predomina...