Systems theory and agency theory were employed as the theoretical bases for a study of lobbying and the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) during the years of the Core Standards Programme, 1993-98. External parties made use of formal and informal channels to lobby the IASC. The...

Over the last decade there has been significant interest and attention devoted towards understanding the complex structure of the Internet, particularly its topology and the large-scale properties that can be derived from it. While recent work by empiricists and theoreticians has emphasized...