The authors trace the successive transformations of the large London commercial law firm, which entered the 20th century as a small group of partners, typically from one or more family groups, surrounded by a large group of working class clerks who performed much of the 'professional work'....

South Africa has been integrating into the global economy since the early 1990s through a rapid programme of trade liberalization. Its textile industry-an activity important in manufacturing value-added in most developing countries-illustrates the effects of this policy on firms and their...

The increased exploitation of renewable energy sources is central to any move towards sustainable development. However, casting renewable energy thus carries with it an inherent commitment to other basic tenets of sustainability: openness; democraticization etc.