While studies on international corporate social responsibility (CSR) have expanded significantly, their true global nature can be questioned. We systematically review 494 articles in 31 journals over a 31-year period. We assess the embeddedness of CSR in international management/business (IB);...

Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) spanning from 1995 to 2010, this paper firstly investigates the drivers of Global Value Chain Reconfiguration (GVCR) and their influencing mechanisms; empirical results indicate that technological progress and regional cooperation have significantly...

Globalization, defined in economic terms as the phenomenon of increased integration of the world economy, generates strong reactions due to some negative effects of the growth of international trade, the internationalization of industrial production, and unrestricted cross-border capital flows,...

Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that...

The paper reviews the cost and benefits of globalization (i.e. greater integration of national and global economies) from the perspective of India. It argues that India’s hesitant and reluctant globalization had a significant cost in terms of forgone growth, delay in the eradication of...

Modern world has shrunk into a global village. The ever-expanding and multifarious links in communication, transportation, trade, services and myriad of other factors have rendered the world a single market. The trend has, no doubt benefited the people all around, but it entails the inevitable...

Modern world has shrunk into a global village. The ever-expanding and multifarious links in communication, transportation, trade, services and myriad of other factors have rendered the world a single market. The trend has, no doubt benefited the people all around, but it entails the inevitable...

Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...

The institutional structure of global commodity chains and cross-border production networks will have a profound impact on how the benefits of globalized production are distributed. This paper develops a model that combines the insights of earlier unequal exchange theorists and new work on...

This paper discusses the normative foundation of a global competition regime. It asks: What kind of normative values do we need? What objectives ought we to pursue? Why value economic competition at such a tough time as this? Are the disputes on these issues in the US and EU jurisdictions likely...