The European Union and the United States of America present the world´s largest exporter and importer of goods, services and capital. The idea of increasing foreign trade between them based on the implementation of the lowest degree of economic integration, a free trade area, is not new. A...

The deregulation of financial services in the European Union and the development of information technology have fostered recent changes in the European banking industry. This process, that has affected market competition, has been accelerated by the establishment of the Economic and Monetary...

The recent financial crisis has clearly shown that the relationship between bank internationalization and risk is complex. Multinational banks can benefit from portfolio diversification, reducing their overall riskiness, but this effect can be offset by incentives going in the opposite...

This paper develops a new conceptualization of the relationship between regional determinants and roles of foreign subsidiaries and empirically investigates this relationship in the UK at a disaggregated regional level. It focuses particularly on a relatively under- investigated field, that of...

Objective: The objective of the article is to explore internationalisation patterns of family high-tech firms, especially their internationalisation motives, intensity, speed, and entry modes. Research Design & Methods: The empirical part adopts a quantitative approach. The results of the survey...

Literature has been produced in this area as a result of the different approaches taken in research, and this has unquestionably enriched scientific debate. Nevertheless, the theoretical review we carried out shows us that the different focuses that exist have imposed a degree of divergence and...

The objective of this article is to provide a survey of basic facts about process of globalization. We can define globalization as the international economic integration through particular markets. Globalization is largely continual and objective process that began approximately in the middle of...

The inspiration to create this summary was research carried out on the Polish-Ukrainian internationalization of business activity conditions and their models. The article contains conclusions based on the authors' interviews with Ukrainian businessmen and government officials, as well as an...

Purpose: The goal of this study is to investigate the empirical effect between competitiveness and FDI inflow in ASEAN member countries over the period 2007-2017. Design/methodology/approach: The effect of competitiveness and foreign direct investment (FDI) was investigated by using Pearson...