August 7, 1955 is an important date in commercial aviation history. You could say it began the jet airliner age, though other dates might also qualify. Jet engines had proven successful in military aircraft. But no one knew then whether members of the general public would ever want to fly in...

During the past 50 years, several consulting companies introduced important new ideas that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management consulting companies created and...

This Article contains chapters 8-9, 11-13, and the Conclusion of a World Bank-sponsored Report, prepared in December 2006, to the Russian Federal Service on the Securities Market. We discuss the liability under company law of directors, senior company officials, and controlling shareholders of...

The Russian version of this paper is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1001991. An updated Russian language version was published as Правовое Регулирование Ответственности Членов Органов Управления: Анализ Мировой...

This article examines the historical, doctrinal and theoretical bases of shareholder rights in British company law. These rights are, and always have been, essentially the product of private bargains, subjected to regulation of various explicit and implicit forms. This legal framework has...

Global competition and technology / Stephen P. Bradley, Jerry A. Hausman, and Richard L. Nolan -- How will information technology reshape organizations?; Computers as coordination technology / Thomas W. Malone and John F. Rockart -- A framework for the design of the emerging global...