The paper deals with the role that universities can have in promoting innovation in general and at local and regional level in particular. In doing this, the nature of universities and the quality of their relations to industry and governments is of paramount importance. During the last three...

The paper suggests a partial solution to the disjunction between the institutional environment and the institutions of governance by considering the budget constraint. This approach is put in the perspective of the comparative analysis of economic organizations as discrete structural...

Corporate governance in transformation economies : a comparative perspective / Bruno Dallago -- Economic transformation and corporate finance in the post-communist world / Fumikazu Sugiura -- Corporate governance, ownership concentration and foreign direct investment in the Czech Republic /...