This paper draws upon the work of Lacan and Callon to interrogate and disrupt the foundational belief of neo classical economics in the rationality and autonomy of the individual. Lacan's account of the ego's foundation in the ‘imaginary' explains how the self may be grasped as if it were...

Where there has been little in-depth understanding of sovereign wealth funds, this paper describes the complex nature of one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, Temasek Holdings (“Temasek”), whose “active” investment strategy has been emulated by a number of other funds. The...

This paper on a family-controlled firm in Singapore suggests how such businesses, in competitive industries, may grow and survive. Located in the literature on small firm growth, we explore a corporate incident that threatened the survival of the firm under study. An analysis of the manner in...

Despite the reported decline of small retail businesses in Western Europe, these businesses still seem to compete and thrive in many urban areas. We explore this puzzle by assessing the closeness of perceptions between managers and customers of two small family-owned and managed businesses...

A number of scholars of private equity (“PE”) have sought to assess the performance of PE firms by adopting an ex-post perspective of asset pricing. In doing so a set of phenomena has been recognized that is thought to be specific to the PE sector. However, by continuing to draw on an...

In the last two decades, a number of private equity scholars have attempted to assess the ex-post returns (performance) of private equity funds (PEs). Such studies have produced both contradictory conclusions that have included a wide spread of abnormal realized returns ranging from -6%...