Summary of JOIE article ( First View 04 February 2021) by Chiara Amini, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Elodie Douarin, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London and Tim Hinks, University of West of England. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Even though individualism has…
Author: Nikhilesh Sinha
Nikhilesh Sinha teaches courses at the Hult International Business School London, where he is also a Research Fellow. While his primary discipline is economics, his research draws on the wider social sciences and is focused on issues facing the poor in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa. He has published most recently on rental housing and on the 2010 Microfinance Crisis in India.
Let’s do it Frank’s way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 22 March 2021) by Marek Hudik, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business and Per L. Bylund, School of Entrepreneurship, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University The full article is available on the JOIE website. Our paper makes an argument for finding the proper balance between…
Is Tax Morale Culturally Driven?
Summary of JOIE article (Published 23 February 2021) by Luca Andriani, Department of Management, Birkbeck University, Randolph Bruno, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Elodie Douarin, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London and Paulina Stepien-Baig, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. The full article is available…
Economic Freedom and Antisemitism
Summary of JOIE article ( First View 27 October 2020) by Niclas Berggren, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden, and Therese Nilsson, Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden. The full article is available on the JOIE website. One of the oldest forms of intolerance and hatred is directed against Jews for being Jews….
Financial globalization and institutions in Africa: the case of foreign direct investment, central bank independence and political institutions
Summary of JOIE article (16(6), December 2020) by Abel Mawuko Agoba, Department of Banking and Finance, Central University, Tema, Ghana, Elikplimi Agbloyor, Department of Finance, University of Ghana Business School, Afua Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako, Department of Finance, University of Ghana Business School, and Mac-Clara Acquah, Zenith University College, Trade Fair, Accra, Ghana. The full article is…
Financial Institutions and the British Industrial Revolution: Did Financial underdevelopment hold back Growth?
Summary of JOIE article (17(3), June 2021) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. The complete article is available on the JOIE website. This is a summary of an article that addresses the role of financial institutions in empowering the British Industrial Revolution. Prominent economic historians have argued that investment was largely…
On the Limits of Markets
Summary of JOIE article (First View, 04 August 2020) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. The complete article is available on the JOIE website. This is a summary of a review essay of Markets without Limits by Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski and of The Invisible Hand? by Bas van Bavel. In very…
Medieval Corporations, Membership and the Common Good: Rethinking the Critique of Shareholder Primacy
Summary of JOIE article (First View, 09 July 2019) by Samuel F. Mansell, School of Management, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK and Alejo José G. SISON, School of Economics and Business, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. This article appeared in the Symposium on Corporations edited by David Gindis. The complete article is available on the…
A New Understanding of the History of Limited Liability: An Invitation for Theoretical Reframing
Summary of JOIE article (First View, 08 June 2020) by Ron Harris, Kalman Lubowsky Chair of Law and History at Tel Aviv University School of Law. This article appeared in the Symposium on Corporations edited by David Gindis. The complete article is available on the JOIE website. In this paper, I investigate the historical development of limited liability…
The Anglo-American misconception of stockholders as ‘owners’ and ‘members’
Summary of JOIE article (First View, 07 October 2019) by David Ciepley, Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, Virginia. This article appeared in the Symposium on Corporations edited by David Gindis. The complete article is available on the JOIE website. This article critiques the notions, deeply rooted in Anglo-American treatments of the business corporation,…