This paper suggests that current research on international business should provide for a more prominent role of Politics in its analysis. International research examines transactions that reach across national borders, yet nations and their borders have so far not been sufficiently...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

1. Introduction -- 2. Marx, Gramsci, and possibilities for radical renewal in IPE -- 3. The quality of global power: a relational view of neoliberal hegemony -- 4. The emergence of mass production practices and productivist ideology -- 5. State-society relations and the politics of industrial...

The European automotive industry is the second largest manufacturer of motor vehicles worldwide (after China) and generates directly and indirectly millions of jobs EU-wide. It is characterized by a high degree of export orientation and the largest share of exports can be ascribed to the US...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy: A curse or a blessing? -- 2. Institutional change, policy...

Wir sind derzeit Zeugen von zwei Megatrends, die unterschiedlichen Logiken gehorchen: auf der einen Seite 'McWorld', also der Trend zur Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft, der Weltgesellschaft, der Weltkultur. Auf der anderen Seite 'Jihad', also der Trend zur Fragmentierung aller Lebensbereiche....