This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the period from 1967 to 2009. The review provides a structured overview of prior research topics and findings and identifies gaps in the existing literature that may be addressed in...

Metro Cebu is as popular as Metro Manila. As early as 1980's, Metro Cebu has been referred to as the principal urban settlement of the Central Visayas Region. This paper attempts to present the metrowide challenges faced by Metro Cebu and discusses the issues and options for management structure...

The US research university is a very successful model of higher edudaction and research. We examine its core elements and follow the current discussion on a necessary reform. Focusing on the institutional structure, we review possible causes of shortcomings and frictions. During the last 50 to...

In the context of current economic and financial crisis a comparative analysis of the main indices of economic and social performance of the EU member states is necessary. In such line of argument, the authors propose, as novelty, an economic power-economic performance matrix as a methodological...

As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this pa-per aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of different concepts of economic power - such as those of Schumpeter, Perroux, Predöhl, or...

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...

Eine Reihe von Ländern in Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika steigen zu wichtigen Akteuren auf und verschieben die Koordinaten in der Weltpolitik und -wirtschaft. Die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Verschiebungen zugunsten dieser Regionalen Führungsmächte gehen mit einem relativen...

An economic group is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that operates as a single economic organism under the same legislature of control. The decisions taken by the economic groups in any country are among the most influential factors that impact its market and the country's...

Warum reagieren Gesellschaften so zögerlich auf die Klimakrise? Die in dem Essay verfolgte These lautet: Die wirtschaftlichen, politischen und sozialen Prozesse moderner kapitalistischer Gesellschaften weisen Macht- und Anreizstrukturen auf, die hinreichende Reaktionen auf die Klimakrise...

The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all...