Literature on technology, business and society refers to five ‘generations of innovation,’ a ‘fourth industrial revolution,’ a ‘fourth paradigm of scientific research,’ and a ‘second machine age,’ amongst others. A unifying theoretical framework is yet to make explicit underlying...

Purpose: This paper aims to argue that certain insights offered by Kuhn and Foucault may be of use to those seeking to resist a global paradigm of inequality in access to the outcomes of pharmaceutical development. It is further argued that these relationships are not independent of certain...

Informal sector participation has been described as a trap associated withimpoverishment (Cassim, 1982); as the survivalist responses of marginalised personswith no alternatives (Habib, 2005); yet it has also been described as potentiallydynamic (House, 1984). The former conceptions prescribe an...