Tag: Business
Scotland’s Money?
What currency options would be available if Scotland became independent? This pamphlet describes how the globalisation of finance and the digitisation of...
Managing Uncertainty: A Conversation with Greg LaBlanc at unSILOed
https://www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/john-kay
Capturing the regulators
A new book by Financial Times journalist Dan McCrum tells the story of Wirecard. The German company, which acted as a payment processor (an...
The Bezzle Years
This essay was originally written for Project Syndicate in 2015. If anything, it is more relevant now.
More than...
RIP PLC: The Rise of the Ghost Corporation
From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th, one form of economic organisation seemed to be displacing all others—the limited...
Adam Smith and the Pin Factory
‘One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at...
Business Gurus
Lynda Gratton, Eddie Obeng, and I discussed business gurus on the Radio 4's The Bottom Line. Listen to that conversation here, and...
Ethical Finance
I was introduced to Catholic social teaching through the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre brought the concept of Aristotelian virtue ethics into...
The Concept of the Corporation
The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Business History (15 Jan 2019) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00076791.2018.1509956.
Hybrid Organisations: The Ambiguous Boundary Between Public and Private Activity
Introduction
What do
Channel 4, Companies House, the Post Office, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the
Royal Mint and URENCO (a...
