Purpose: This paper aims to examine two important issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship. First, the study problematises CSR as a form of self-regulation. Second, the research explores how CSR strategies can enable firms to recognise and internalise their externalities...

Introduction -- Africapitalism : a management idea for business in Africa? -- Business elites to the rescue! Reframing capitalism and constructing an expert identity : implications for Africapitalism -- Africapitalism and corporate governance -- Rethinking human capital development in Africa :...

We present a critique of corporate governance research grounded in agency theory and propose that cross-national comparison of corporate governance should consider how the nature and extent of agency relationships differ across different institutional contexts. Building on prior governance...

There are few better examples of public policy being used to cut through what might to many seem to be sound legal reasoning than in the recent decision of the House of Lords in Re Supply of Ready‐mixed Concrete (No. 2), Director General of Fair Trading v Pioneer Concrete (UK) and Another ....

On announcing the debacle of Barings, the Bank of England emphasised that the circumstances were ‘unique to Barings’ in an attempt to calm its effect on the rest of the financial community. But those in charge of banking and securities operations around the world must know that what has...

At a recent meeting of government officials in Trinidad to discuss regional security and in particular the threat of regional and, indeed, international dcstabilisation presented by the illicit drug trade, considerable attention was focused on the role of offshore financial centres in...