We develop an approach to studying new business governance models and we illustrate how these models take the general interest into account. We outline the main prevailing trends, in the context of the QuÈbec model of development, and discuss the new conceptions of the state and of its role in...

Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be silent on investors’ responsibilities to...

Public enterprises are policy instruments that are "rediscovered". In parallel, a separate scientific literature exists on entrepreneurship in the public sector but has not focused on public enterprises. This article suggests that a new perspective linking both streams of research could lead to...

Have public enterprises become obsolete policy instruments? Should they be privatized or can their governance be radically transformed so that they could still be used as policy instruments? The world around them has changed and forced governments to move. After a discussion on the arguments in...