At the heart of state sovereignty is a tension. On one hand it promises collective freedom and autonomy. On the other hand, sovereignty is laden with expectations. One of the most important of these, which comes from international society itself, is that states will pursue a project of national...

Nobody knows more about designing joints than designers do. This is as it should be and is to be encouraged. It sometimes appears to specialists of other disciplines, however, that a joint may lack certain desirable, or even necessary, features which from their particular point of view may...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) manifests itself in different ways and in order to evaluate the likely impact of FDI it is necessary to examine the strategic aspirations of multinational enterprises (MNE). This involves analysing the entry modes which MNEs use to gain access to foreign markets...

The development of multinational subsidiaries is of interest to academics, policy‐makers and the business community. Although there is a considerable literature on subsidiary typologies, there is a dearth of empirical investigation to accompany this. This article reports on a field‐work...

Reports on an empirical study which was undertaken to investigate the regional economic impact of the subsidiaries of foreign‐owned firms in the UK. The direct effects upon company employment and sales turnover are analysed as well as the indirect effects which are manifested through the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of uses and gratifications theory to social media. By applying uses and gratifications theory, this paper will explore and discuss the uses and gratifications that consumer receive from using social media. This paper seeks to provide a...