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...

Die kapitalistische Entwicklung und Weltmarktintegration Südkoreas hat bis jetzt 35 Jahre gedauert. Die Menschen in Südkorea haben in diesen dreieinhalb Jahrzehnten eine Entwicklung durchgemacht, die in den alten Industrieländern 150 oder sogar 250 Jahre gedauert haben.

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...