The purpose of the paper is to appraise the impact of Marshall?s ideas on today?s analysis of localized industrial activities, with a special focus on his vision of the entrepreneur?s action on the emergence of local industrial atmosphere. The first section uses Marshall?s approach to industrial...

This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...