Recent research into international trade has highlighted the role of trade costs in determining the geography of trade. We propose that the notion of comparative advantage has to be expanded to include different capacities to transact and the pertinent factor endowments (organizational and...

We posit that comparative advantage is discovered via alternative transactional regimes of trading. Transactional regimes are performative, based on different forms of embedded agency. The theory is applied on a study of Brazilian coffee business which manifests the increasing importance of...

Recent research into international trade has highlighted the role of trade costs in determining the geography of trade. We propose that the notion of comparative advantage has to be expanded to include different capacities to transact and the pertinent factor endowments (organizational and...

Die vielbeachtete Dynamik des wirtschaftlichen Wandels im ostasiatischen Raum stellt für die dortigen Länder nicht nur den erfreulichen Weg zum Wohlstand dar, sondern ist gerade durch die erreichte Geschwindigkeit eine immense Herausforderung an Flexibilität and Anpassungsfähigkeit der...