Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...

This article examines the nature of the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's Empagran decision through the lens of the global vitamins cartel, using legal and economic analysis and also empirical data to describe the effect. The article commences with a discussion of the analytic approach adopted...

This research was motivated by the absence of studies that specifically analyse the diversification patterns of Chinese large corporations from the point of view of interrelationship between diversification strategy and organizational structure. Current study followed standard procedures...

The success of an economy depends largely on how successful it is in allocating inputs and outputs across businesses efficiently with minimum disruption and frictions. Market institutions that impact this allocation potentially account for productivity differences across countries. Existing...

Since the emergence of the innovation economy paradigm, innovation has been recognised as the key competitive factor for enterprises and economies alike. In line with this recognition, recent years have seen a plethora of innovation metrics at the firm and the country-level. However, metrics at...

Many changes occurred in the last years in the economic and social framework make this question quite actual. This special issue argues that the new reality created by the great financial crisis has fostered cooperative banks’ development — at least at local level — and allowed them to...

The European Commission has proposed a directive on ‘preventive restructuring frameworks' for financially distressed firms. I demonstrate that the proposal is flawed because it creates a refuge for failing firms that should be liquidated, because it rules out going concern sales for viable...

There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained significance. To what extent this is economically sensible is the focus of our game-theoretic analysis. The competition authority applies some welfare standard while the competitor...