For too long, students of the political economy of corporate governance have been
enthralled by the language of ownership and control. This language stems from Berle and …

Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in
farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance has been identified as one of the main …

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or
bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a'chain': an often extended …

Drawing on several years of fieldwork-based research on and in the “farmland investment
space”, this paper argues that a combined reading of debates on assets and assetization in …

Financial and business services (FABS), including accounting, law, and business
consulting, are crucial for understanding the world economy. Professional services …

China's state-led financialisation of infrastructure is an alternative narrative to prevailing
accounts of neoliberal financialisation in the advanced capitalist core, where the expansion …

This paper explores the determinants and implications of the growing allocation of insurance
companies and pension funds to emerging markets. The key contention put forward is that …

Using a unique database on investment funds and the conceptual framework of global
financial networks, this paper examines the spatial structure of the European investment …

Purpose: Investor sentiment, the willingness of market participants to invest, is a difficult
concept to measure. Exploring the relationship between investor sentiment and stock returns …

ESG metrics are increasingly important in the global investment management industry. Why
this came to pass given the limited appetite for responsible investing in the industry is the …