Organisational ambidexterity is the difficult act of balancing two diametrically opposedorganisational qualities – adaptability and alignment. Adaptability is about focusing onthe future. It is the ability to respond to change, to be nimble, to progress. Alignmentis about maximising the...

In the absence of a broad international agreement, national climate policiesare less efficient, due to carbon leakage, and more costly, due to causingunemployment and a loss of competitiveness on international markets. As,in many countries, a substantial fraction of emissions results from the...

Greater China comprising the PR China, Hong Kong and Taiwan 1 does not exist as an entity, neither as a trading arrangement nor as a monetary arrangement or political grouping. Yet, both the reminiscence of a common history and the ethnical homogeneities have always stimulated fantasies of how...

This paper suggests that current research on international business should provide for a more prominent role of Politics in its analysis. International research examines transactions that reach across national borders, yet nations and their borders have so far not been sufficiently...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

[...]This article presents four measures of externalorientation using industry-specific and time-varying datafor manufacturing industries in four countries—theUnited States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan.For each of these countries, we report export revenueshare, imports relative to...

This paper analyses the transformation of two of the staple trades of the pre-modern international economy –those in wool and dried codfish– during the transition from the late medieval to the early-modern period. The development of early modern long-distance trade was subject to three major...