This volume focuses on the latest findings concerning financial environment research and the effects on business. Major topics addressed range from finance-driven globalization, contagion risk transmission, financial sustainability, and bank efficiency, to oil price shocks and spot prices...

This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road"-strategies that lead to better New Growth Path-related outcomes. It then focuses on...

Part 1: International Growth Concerns -- Economic Nationalism: Constrained and Fragmented, if any? -- Digitalization: Disrupting the Business Models of Multinationals -- Part 2: EU Policies for Growth -- EU Corporate Governance Framework; The Role of the EU Institutions -- The EU Digital Single...

This book studies the economic recovery of individual European Union member states more than ten years after the beginning of the global economic crisis. In light of austerity policies and conservative government investments in many EU countries, it explores how higher growth rates can be...