This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850. Based on a dataset of over 450 company constitutions together with qualitative information on governance practice, it finds little evidence to...

Recent studies of the innovation process have viewed it as the outcome of organizational dynamics rather than as the product of technological developments exogenous to the governance of firms. We apply this approach to our examination of British coastal shipping companies during the early...

This paper investigates the role of women as shareholders in joint stock companies, and how far they can be characterised as active investors. It is based on a large database of company constitutions, together with procedural records and the pamphlet literature of the period. The penetration by...

<DIV><P>Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their origins in Europe during the seventeenth and...</p></div>

Cette etude dresse un portrait de l'etat de l'air, de la qualite de l'eau et du probleme des dechets solides et des dechets dangereux. Cela donne donc un bon apercu de l'etendue des besoins. De plus, on retrouvera une liste (etablie par le gouvernement malais) des secteurs industriels devant...

This report looks at the growth of the Republic of China's national fleet and the role of second-hand tonnage in this expansion

Le secteur des produits et services environnementaux prend de plus en plus d'ampleur dans ce pays, et les besoins sont immmenses. La taille du marche est actuellement estimee a plus de 250 millions de dollars US et elle augmente d'environ 20 % par an. Des possibilites existent en ce qui concerne...

There are two stories to tell about women's employment and economic reform in Cuba. The first is the 'official version which says that during the years of the "Special Economic Period in Peacetime" of the 1990s women/s economic participation was maintened in spite of all difficulties they...