Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and strengthening). The focal point of this book...

1 Launching a Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-National Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood -- 2 The Role of Fathers in Child and Family Health -- 3 The Impact of Father’s Health on Reproductive and Infant Health and Development -- 4 The Impact of Fatherhood on Men’s Health and Development -- 5...

Introduction -- Job loss in the pandemic disruption in Egypt: A push to start a business? -- Disadvantaged migrant entrepreneurs and their selection of location -- Immigrant entrepreneurship and dynamics of being (dis)advantaged: An exploratory multi-case study of Eastern European origin...

1 Issues and New Business Trends in the International Trade of Secondhand Goods -- 2 Economic Impact of Imported Secondhand Agricultural Machinery in Rural Vietnam -- 3 International Trade of Used Trains: The Case of Japanese Used Rolling Stock in Indonesia -- 4 The Location Problem of...

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country’s opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product...

The end of the EURO -- The effects of alternative currencies to national economies: the European experience -- The role of FDI in increasing employment for South-Eastern Europe countries -- Trends in the Balkans and Eurasia under globalization – geostrategic analysis -- The impact of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Review of Regional Development, Disparities, and Public Policies in Mexico: Reflections on an Environment of Strategic Reconfigurations -- Chapter 3. Regional Advantages: Why U.S -- Mexico Trade Is Robust and Permanent -- Chapter 4. Regional Economic...