The special issue emerges at a time of intense debate concerning the role of manufacturing in the developed world. A general consensus that manufacturing strengthens the economy in which it is carried out and that innovation follows manufacturing combines with a recognition that manufacturing...

While alleviating the adverse effects of employees’ pursuit of their subgroups’ goals over organizational goals is important, finding ways to avoid them may be even more important. In this paper, we investigate whether strategic planning can be used to reduce organizational members’...

In this paper, we study the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between the EU countries and China on EU home investments. We consider BITs as "treatments" that provide further access to global value chains (GVCs). We identify the causal impacts of the BITs on the relationship...

The current crisis is different from the situation 2008/2009, but again it is a tremendous chal-lenge for the economies across Europe. The Corona-crisis is hitting the economies symmetri-cally, though with differences in magnitude levels, while the 2009 crisis was primarily a crisis of the...