In this contribution, we propose to make a comparative study of the factors of attractiveness at work in Hungary and Tunisia during the past decade, which underly cumulated flows of investment, localization, and effects of swarming in industrial fabric. After having recalled the objectives of...

Storytelling and narrating can be a very efficient and great vessel for changes in our society. One of the experts in storytelling in management being David Boje, developed the notion of antenarrating. A specific type and application of antenarrating being Phronesis antenarrating. Phronesis...

It's clear today that the world is changing rapidly. Innovation is taking place faster. Digital platforms are permeating ever greater portions of our lives, transforming the ways we work, play, and interact with one another. Pulling from various economic, communications, and other disciplines,...

The implementation of digital channels as avenues for economic transactions (e.g., online and mobile banking/FinTech) has shifted the paradigm of customer–bank interactions, providing unprecedented opportunities for both parties. The prevailing belief is that digital banking has several...

Determination and implementation of effective policies that enhance and sustain U.S. competitiveness internationally requires a clear understanding of the concept of competitiveness as it relates to a nation. This paper addresses the ambiguity that surrounds the notion of nations competing, and...

Many great economic thinkers, including Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons discussed the importance of joint production, or productive complements, and there are important applications. Yet many students today could complete an economics major and never be introduced to this important...

Individual and organizational actors enter into a large number of relationships that include benefiting others without ensuring the equality of reciprocal benefits. We suggest that actors have evolved mechanisms that guide them in the choice of exchange partners, even without conscious...

Adopting an International Sustainability Standard (ISS) helps firms improve their sustainability performance. It also acts as a credible market “signal” that legitimizes firms’ latent sustainability practices while improving their market value. But how do these signals function when firms...

Until recently, predatory pricing was a rapidly dying area of antitrust. Following years of judicial tapering of predatory pricing liability in the lower courts, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating, and perhaps final, blow to the hopes of predatory pricing plaintiffs with its 1993 decision in...

In this paper we extend the gift-exchange game setting to include a new experimental treatment where subjects are paired with the same partner for the whole game. We observe that the matching mode is more critical to cooperation levels than the contractual arrangement, and that trust-based...