This paper discusses the main approaches to the regulation of outsourcing to date, taking in particular the perspective of incomplete and relational contracts. The paper is the foundation of a larger project on the reorientation of outsourcing and its regulation in the light of recent...

The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock...

This article considers social and cooperative enterprises whose governance differs categorically from the shareholder corporation, and asks what scope there is for these alternative formats of the firm to transform what has become a “market society” into a more social market economy, in...

The state traditionally procures from either market actors or charitable providers. If it buys from the market, the tendering process is subject to national and European public procurement law, but if it buys exclusively from charities, some exemptions apply—either as a result of special...

This chapter explains the worldwide growth of social and cooperative enterprises as a counter-movement to global shareholder capitalism, at a time when traditional democratic structures suffer from systemic blockages (linkages between formal political process and global economic power organised...