Firms of every description sought to squeeze out inefficiencies, sell off non-core businesses and close redundant operations, all in the name of shareholder value.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

Local managers were allowed to do their own thing operationally until it was time for their companies to become chips and be traded in for something new, always in the name of increasing shareholder value.

ECONOMIST: Liberty Media

It was the Dutch, nearly a century later, starting in 1598, who wrote the very first chapters, introducing sugar cane, importing the first slaves, and giving the island the name by which we know it today, Mauritius, after a wealthy shareholder of the Dutch East India Company.

BBC: Blending of cultures in Mauritius