International Leadership: Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World -- Enacting Opportunities Across Borders -- Early and Rapid or Late and Slow? -- Cooperation with Distributors in Arabic-Speaking Countries -- The Curious Case of Leadership in International Branch Campuses in...

The global economy as the macro-environment -- Theories of internationalization -- Market entry decisions -- Market entry modes -- The coordination and configuration of global value chains (GVCs) -- The management of the multinational firm.

This book includes papers presented at the 11th International Conference “Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries” (EBEEC), held in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2019. It sheds new light on the micro- and macroeconomic developments in the Eastern European and Balkan countries,...

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm...

Why is the policy of no alternatives so dangerous? -- What does "crisis policy" mean and why do its consequences have a disintegrative effect? -- What are the costs of the low interest rate policy? -- How much was the debt relief for Greece really? -- To what extent do national additional money...

Where is a liability union already evident today? -- To what extent is the reconstruction fund the blueprint for a fiscal-centralist European Monetary Fund? -- Is debt relief coming? -- Are Greek "geuros" and Italian "minibots" as government money the solution? -- Why are national parallel...

This book integrates three levels of political-economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia,...

Based on their ability to facilitate interdependencies across the borders of national and regional markets, multinationals enterprises (MNEs) act as the key drivers of world trade and investment activities. While recent global challenges additionally highlight the need to explain and assess the...

This book presents stimulating new perspectives on three key sets of issues: a fair globalization, the policies that might be adopted in response to protectionist pressures, and sustainable development policies involving G7 and G20 actions to lay the foundations for renewed trust. The individual...

Introduction (Paul Dobrescu) -- Part I. Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates -- Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not? (Ian Goldin) -- Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses (Anne L....