Publisher Summary This chapter surveys and synthesizes the issues for developing
economies. Two features of developing economies are particularly germane to the link …

For individuals to enter mutually beneficial exchange relationships they have to recognise
them as such and they have to be able to commit to fulfil their contractual obligations. The …

An endogenous growth model with multiple assets is developed. Agents who face random
future liquidity needs accumulate capital and a liquid, but unproductive asset. The effects of …

This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national
institutions on bank net interest margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks …

Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American
addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak …

“Business groups” are sets of legally separate firms bound together in persistent formal
and/or informal ways. The level of binding is intermediate between, and should be …

Ronald Coase's celebrated query as to why economic actors typically aggregate into entities
called 'firms' rather than transacting as individuals in a market has engendered a vigorous …

Alfred Chandler's portrayal of the managerial revolution of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries does not extend well into the late twentieth century, when widespread …

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European
historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as' static'or'backward'. Jack …

Business groups have received increasing attention from academics interested in
interorganizational relations and their impact on firms. As part of industrial reform, the …