State-owned and other state-invested enterprises (SIEs) have become more prominent in the global economy over the last decade. A growing role for state-invested enterprises in the marketplace is not in itself onerous. According to an OECD consensus, as expressed through the Organisation’s...

This paper ('Sfb-Arbeitspapier') illustrates the links between the self-regulation of transnational business networks and the law by analysing the management of chemical substance risks in the electric and electronic equipment industry. National product regulation (and to some extent regulation...

Contents: Foreword / Paul Beamish -- Introduction / Peter J. Buckley -- Part I A personal perspective -- 1.'The applied economics of (international) business: a personal perspective', (International Journal of the Economics of Business, 21 (1), 3-6) -- Part II The theory of international...