Philip Cheng, Brian Hilton and Chong Choi argue that the importance of knowledge has created a convergence of research interests for developed, high income and developing, low-income economies that makes the issue of knowledge a critical one in research into the evolving global economy. They...

The East Asian economic crisis of 1997 and the rapid recovery by 1999 has become a widely debated topic among researchers; its analysis primarily based on economic theories of financial crises and their origins. This paper sets out to show how analyses based on an institutional and...

Different societies use different mechanisms to assist people or organizations achieve cooperation. The purpose of this paper is to compare three different approaches to achieving cooperation. They are a contractual approach widely used in Anglo-Saxon societies, a trust approach more common in...