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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher, Richard S. Grossman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE JANISSARIES OF THE 20th CENTURY: MOHSIN HAMID’S NOVEL RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST

Lìteraturnij Proces: Metodologìâ, Ìmena, Tendencìï, 2019
DOI: 10.28925/2412-2475.2019.147   The article deals with Mohsin Hamid’s novel “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” (2008), a reflection on the events of 9/11 in New York.
Mariya Shymchyshyn
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The Narrative Continent: Discursive Recognition and the EU's Technological Actorness

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Recognition in global politics is not only earned through institutions or capabilities; it is narrated into being. This article investigates how the European Union (EU) is framed as a technological actor in global discourse, focusing on the symbolic dynamics of discursive recognition.
Mahmoud Javadi
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist Theory Reveals a Need for Justice over Autonomy in Research Ethics

Voices in Bioethics, 2018
Informed consent has remained one of the more debated topics within research ethics.  Many scholars and bioethicists have wondered the best way to obtain it, who should give it, and if it is even necessary at all.
Alix E. Masters
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
wiley   +1 more source

Words Matter in Public Policy: Reflections on the Special Issue

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Words matter in public policy and politics. But how do we understand the influence of words exactly? Is language a vehicle to express thoughts and ideas, delivering ideas to audiences akin to a conveyor belt? Or does language form ideas in the first place, and is language constitutive of realities, shaping the thoughts of both those who ...
Maarten A. Hajer
wiley   +1 more source

Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

Platforms and the Critique of Political Economy

Etkileşim
The study of platforms, or multi-sided markets, has seen exponential growth in economics, media studies, social sciences and humanities. However, the critical political economy of media has been relatively quiet, with notable exceptions in areas such as ...
Paško BILIĆ
doaj   +1 more source