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According to official sources the Saudi economy, its demographics and customer purchasing power render it an appealing market for the franchising industry. With a population of about 31 million people, there exists a craving for entrepreneurial activities by the younger generation. Franchising as business model, has witnessed tremendous growth in recent times, supposedly generating employment, technology transfer and contributing to revenue, among other effects. Surprisingly, this tempo has n...

The modern debate about monetary reform has taken on a new twist with the development of private digital currencies employing distributed ledger payments technology. In order to consider the appropriate state response, we go back to first principles of money and finance and the case for financial regulation: to ensure provision of a safe money asset and a stable supply of credit within an inherently unstable financial system. We consider calls to privatize money or to restrict money issue t...

While transforming the investment, trading and infrastructural landscape in Africa, Chinese firms are also generating much-publicised controversy about their real motives. Many of the large Chinese firms operating in Africa focus mostly but not exclusively on engineering, infrastructural projects and mining. This Africa–China engagement has only recently begun to receive critical attention in the area of management and organisation studies. With reference to Kenya, we found that this phenomen...

This paper examines the dynamics of entrepreneurial acquisitions undertaken by UK high growth small and medium enterprises (S M E s). While entrepreneurial acquisitions are increasingly deployed by S M E s, little is known about their antecedents, motivational drivers and organisational outcomes. Drawing on detailed case study evidence from Scotland, the key factor found to be driving these acquisitions was the desire to augment and exploit technological complementarities between the acquirin...