What is the purpose of the company and its role in society? From their origin in medieval times to their modern incarnation as powerful transnational bodies, companies remain an important part of business and society at large. Drawing from a variety of perspectives, this book adopts a normative...

The measurement methods used in financial accounting affect our perception of the value and performance of businesses by determining the amount of reported profit or loss and the resources of the business. Thus, measurement affects shareholders and other stakeholders in the business. It has even...

Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre-industrial economic development went down different paths. The...

Die vorliegende Übersicht kartiert die rasant wachsende Forschungslandschaft zum Arbeit-Migration-Nexus entlang angelsächsischer, deutschsprachiger und spanischer Diskursfelder. Die Diagnose einer umfassenden Prekarisierung grenzt hierbei den Zugriff auf das Phänomen "migrantische Arbeit"...