At the recent Financial Times Conference on Telecommunications and the European Business Market: the Perspectives for Change, two of the contributors examined the question of whether companies should "make" their own private telecommunications network, or "buy" a publicly-offered service. The...

Debates about the role of capitalist corporations depend ultimately on their response to the enduring question of 'who controls the large modern corporation'. This article aims to identify various competing schools of thought that can be classified as 'managerialist' and 'anti-managerialist',...