Purpose – One of a business strategist’s most fundamental responsibilities is to help define the corporation’s highest purpose. This column explains why that duty has an even greater importance in a business environment plagued by “short-termism”. Design/methodology/approach –...

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Douglass North’s contribution to economics and the social sciences by examining the origins and structure of his New Institutionalist Economic History (NIEH). Informed by contemporary debates in the philosophy of economics, Krul describes the...