<i> Financial and corporate governance systems and technological change: the incompleteness of fit the UK and Italy </i> (di Andrew Tylecote, Francesca Visintin) - ABSTRACT: Our argument revolves around a simple link: technological (and therefore economic) performance of firms and countries is a...

This paper assumes, with Perez (1983, 2002), that technological development follows a ?long wave? rhythm, in which new ?techno-economic paradigms? succeed one another at long intervals; the latest being the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paradigm. When the new paradigm appears a...

There has been a long debate, with an extensive literature, over the control of the firm: who controls it, and how, and what implications does this have for managerial objectives and performance? It is not too simplistic to describe the argument for the most part as between those who see control...