"The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "market-institutional" perspective - which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions. This perspective offers a compelling alternative to the...

Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a social process and creating a firm requires both the mobilization of social networks and the use of social capital. This book addresses the gap that exists between the need to take these factors into consideration and the understanding of how network...

This PhD dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters that all study separate aspects of firms' expansion in export markets. Although the three projects study different questions, and do so using different approaches, they share a common focus on how firms grow in foreign markets and...