Frank A.G. den Butter explains the importance and means of keeping transaction costs as low as possible. He illustrates how this transaction management can contribute to making firms and nations more competitive by exploiting gains from the division of labour and international fragmentation of...

1. Introduction : setting the stage -- 2. From peak to trough -- 3. The trade finance confusion : tales of capital, finance, credit and trade -- 4. The international value chain myth -- 5. Protectionism is just around the corner! -- 6. An alternative hypothesis : the forgotten role of trade...

1. Introduction -- 2. International fragmentation of production : a survey of theory and the measurement issue -- 3. Production fragmentation and trade patterns in Japanese manufacturing -- 4. Determinants of fragmentation trade -- 5. Structural transformation and labour market adjustment in...

1. The changing global economic landscape : the factors that matter / Jan Fagerberg -- 2. How global is foreign direct investment and what can policymakers do about it? : stylized facts, knowledge gaps, and selected policy instruments / Peter Nunnenkamp -- 3. Labour market frictions as a source...

Cross-Strait linkages : historical perspective and empirical evidence / Richard C.K. Burdekin, Yijing Shen and Hsin-hui I.H. Whited -- A comparison between the CEPA and the ECFA / Yun-Wing Sung -- Assessing the impacts of the integration of the ICT investments of Taiwan and China upon economic...

Contents: Foreword / Paul Beamish -- Introduction / Peter J. Buckley -- Part I A personal perspective -- 1.'The applied economics of (international) business: a personal perspective', (International Journal of the Economics of Business, 21 (1), 3-6) -- Part II The theory of international...

The field of management education and research has become an industry of its own – an industry with fierce international competition in a global arena. Here, the authors argue that a series of mechanisms has led to mimicking and thus strategic convergence among business schools. The authors...