1. Introduction -- 2.History Lessons -- 3. On the Runway -- 4. Roles and Responsibilities -- 5. Living to Work -- 6. Bamboo Ceiling -- 7. All Work and Play -- 8. Metaphorically Speaking -- 9. Reverse Angle -- 10. A View to the Future.

Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...

In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...