The current agenda in many countries for public service reform was provoked by certain Widespread perceptions of public service failure. However, failures are now appearing with the reform agenda itself. In order to understand these, it is necessary to go back to the characteristics of the pure...

The study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can best be mainstreamed within the wider social science literature if it is defined as firms voluntarily assuming responsibility for their externalities, thereby setting the puzzle of how this can be reconciled with the maximization of...

This study seeks to go beneath the generalizations that constitute characterizations of national economies in order to examine local and sectoral diversity - in particular, forms of capitalist organization at the level of localized sectors. It reports on the findings of research based on...