Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

Introduction to Globalization and Development - Economic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives from Emerging Markets -- An Overview: Globalization Development Within the Group of Twenty (G20) as Indicated by Globalization and Innovation Indices -- Globalization and the Informal Economy in Developing...

INTRODUCTION—RETHINKING THE GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN THEORY -- Chapter 1. Understanding the Background of the Upgrading of Chinese Enterprises -- Chapter 2. Literature Research into Enterprise Upgrading -- Chapter 3. Case Study of Enterprise Upgrading -- Chapter 4. Empirical Study on Overall...

Part I Introduction to Megatrends -- Megatrends in International Business: An Introduction to the Theme -- Megatrends and International Business -- Part II Entrepreneurship Trends -- Trends in International Entrepreneurship -- IGOs and Entrepreneurship: Understanding the Impact of Policy...

Empirical Overview and Theoretical Perspectives -- Politics and Power in Emerging Market Multinationals -- Sustainability and Emerging Market Multinationals -- Changing Global Labor Conditions -- Regional Expansion Strategies to Europe -- Conclusions

1. Towards a New Framework for Analyzing Trade Growth Dynamics -- 2. An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Banking Sector Development (BSD) in West Africa -- 3. Impact of FDI and TRIPS on the Absorptive Capacity of Manufacturing firms in India -- 4. The Trade Impact of...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It...

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the...