Trade liberalization during the neoliberal era since the 1980s has been on the political agenda of many countries. However, in recent years and especially in the course of rising populist movements, protectionist measures seem to be gaining importance again. Nationalist economic policies...

Competition is at the core of economics, being both a central concept of economic reasoning and a main prerequisite for economic action. Yet, the attempt of a clear definition of competition is challenging as the concept of competition has been used in different historical and disciplinary...

This paper introduces a framework to facilitate an interdisciplinary analysis of 'competition'. While such an interdisciplinary analysis can be justified by referencing the various fields of social and economic life in which 'competition' is important, three challenges are found to aggravate...

This paper provides an institutional and empirical analysis of the highly concentrated market of academic publishing, characterized by over-proportionally high profit margins for publishing companies. The availability of latest research findings is of primary importance for researchers,...

In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known...

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit der Frage des Pluralismus in der ökonomischen Politikberatung. Anhand von drei empirischen Beispielen wird gezeigt, dass sowohl was politisch-ideologische Orientierung als auch das Geschlechterverhältnis betrifft, ökonomische Politikberatung in Deutschland lange...

The article is a contribution to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways competitization is and has been studied across different disciplines and research programs. The article goes beyond a classical literature...

Economics holds a unique position in terms of the severity and persistence of gender imbalances and the underrepresentation of female researchers within the social sciences. There exist various reasons for this fact, as well as a variety of channels through which these imbalances are...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich ein deutlicher Trend abgezeichnet: Universitäten sind zunehmend von vielfältigen Wettbewerbsformen durchdrungen, die eine zentrale Rolle in der Organisation des Wissenschaftssystems spielen. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Verwettbewerblichung der Wissensproduktion...