Emerging market economies (also known as emerging economies, EEs) have become important on the world economic stage, where they now play a vital role in international trade and financial flows and account for a conspicuous fraction of the global economic dynamic. Despite the relatively tepid...

Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and capital account liberalization as well as improvements in transport and communication technologies. As a consequence, the importance of spillover effects is likely to have increased...

PART I: Sustainable Food Systems and Circular Economy: Tackling Resource Use, Efficiency, Food Loss and Waste Problems -- Chapter 1. Challenges and Prospects of Tackling Food Loss and Wastes in the Circular Economy Context -- Chapter 2. Tunnel farming as an adaptation tool for climate change...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how purchasing organizations implement supplier diversity (SD) initiatives over time. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study approach was conducted. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with participants from purchasing organizations,...

The emerging Europe has been hardest hit by the surge in the non-performing loans (NPLs) in the aftermath of the global financial turbulence and the crisis-induced recession. The surge in the NPLs generated a severe banking distress, and left a legacy of a debt overhang that dramatically...