1. Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; and Department of Business & Law, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
2. The Local Governance Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
3. Department of Business & Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
4. Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.