In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Made in the World -- 2. Workhorse Models -- Part II. Location -- 3. Contracts and Export Behavior -- 4. Contracts and Global Sourcing -- 5. Contracts and Sourcing: Evidence -- Part III. Internalization -- 6. The Transaction-Cost...

In this paper we investigate how income growth rates in one country are affected by growth rates in partner countries, testing for the importance of pairwise country links as well as characteristics of the receiving country (trade and financial open- ness, exchange rate regime, fiscal...

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Priorities for the Strategic Development of the Global Economic System Until 2030 -- Contents -- Part I: The Conceptual Vision of the Future Context and Foundations of the Strategic Development of the Global Economic System Until 2030 -- 1 “The Lean and Six...

The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications employs a variety of empirical methodologies to establish two broad regularities that apply to international activity at the firm, industry, and country levels - the law of semiglobalization and the law of distance - and explores some of their...