Driven by declining profits and government regulation, a new form of class-wide business
leadership has emerged: a transcorporate network that is giving a new coherence and …

This paper examines growth and survival amongst quoted and unquoted UK companies in
the period 1975-85 and compares the results with earlier UK and US studies. An …

During the s and s, many developing countries (DCs) have been engaged in
far-reaching reforms of their financial systems, liberalising them and making them more …

This article is the first study of long-run evolution of investor protection and corporate
ownership in the United Kingdom over the twentieth century. Formal investor protection …

This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of small firm performance.
Drawing on an extensive database containing financial, employment and ownership data for …

Researchers have argued that corporate contributions serve as necessitated investments,
social currency, or social responsibility efforts. This article integrates and extends these …

This study is a sequel to the Singh and Hamid's monograph (IFC Technical Paper No. 1) on
corporate financing patterns and structures in nine industrializing economies. Singh and …

THIS PAPER provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between size, growth and
acquisition activity of quoted companies in the United Kingdom. The evidence is based on …

Opposed theories of relations between business and government in advanced capitalist
democracies are predicated on contrary assumptions concerning the capacity of the …

Through a series of international case studies, the nature and the geographical implications
of the development of multinational corporations is examined. The volume concentrates on …