Azerbaijan: legal status of business entities
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to investigate the legal status of business entities in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Azeri government intends to establish a suitable environment for local and foreign companies working in the country.Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a scientific investigation aimed at discovering and interpreting facts related to legal entities in the Azeri context. The goal of the research process is to produce new knowledge, through the exploratory research, which structures and identifies new problems, and the constructive research, which develops solutions to a problem.Findings – The main finding is that constructing the legal entities within the legal frameworks and in compliance with the European standards play a substantial role in overall economic growth and in attracting foreign investments in the local economy as well as in implementing measures for continuing economic reforms, further improving business climate and developing the non‐oil sector in line w...
The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm
Despite the diversity of economic environments and organizations utilized throughout history, historical studies of organizations and organizational innovations, by and large, have concentrated on the very recent past. Arguably, this reflects the perception that historical records are not rich enough, with respect to the more remote past, and organizational problems in past economics are irrelevant to contemporary organizational analysis. This paper combines historical information and game theory to demonstrate that the study of past organizations is both feasible and relevant. Specifically, it presents a game theoretical analysis of the factors that led to the emergence of the late medieval family firm in the Latin, rather than the Muslim, world. Furthermore, it explores various organizational innovations related to the family firm, evaluating their sources and the ability to combine game theory and evolutionary economics for the study of organizational evolution. Copyright 1996 by Oxford University Press.
Business Crime: Its Nature and Control
Part 1 The nature of business crime: business crime and organizational deviance the nature of business crime. Part 2 Empirical studies of business crime: employee crime and industrial relations - disputed definitions insurance fraud - can the insurance industry control it? taxation - enforcement, equity and effectiveness liquidations and receiverships - the battle for control, by Sally Wheeler financial institutions - securities and investments the regulation of industry - safety versus profits. Part 3 Control.