This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.

Within the field of study of infrastructure, several works have addressed the issue of the coherence between technology and institutions of network industries. In a dynamic perspective, issues arise about how technology and institutions co-evolve, what stimulates improvement of infrastructure...

Within the area of study of infrastructure, various works have addressed the issue of the development of technological and institutional systems of network industries. In a dynamic perspective, issues arise about how technology and institutions co-evolve, what stimulates improvement of...

Accounting research raises the concern that firms in the health care and defence contracting industries, when facing a dual payment system with both cost-based and fixed-rate payments, have an incentive to reallocate overhead costs through increasing inputs used in cost-based operations....