Academic Articles & Research Papers

Economics of International Business

Economics of International Business sets out a new agenda for international business research. Mark Casson asserts that it is time to move the subject on from sterile debates about transaction cost economies and resource-based theories of t...

International Business Cycles: Theory and Evidence

We review recent work comparing properties of international business cycles with those of dynamic general equilibrium models, emphasizing two discrepancies between theory and data that we refer to as anomalies. The first is the consumption/...

International Business Management

The Importance of Digital Transformation in International Business

This study was developed under the scope of a Portuguese project focused on the entrepreneur’s perspective and perception on the internationalization process of his company: more specifically, about the factors that enhanced the company ent...

International Business: Strategy, Management, and the New Realities

I. FOUNDATION CONCEPTS 1. Introduction: What is International Business? 2. Globalization of Markets and the Internationalization of the Firm 3. Organizational Participants that Make International Business Happen 4. Theories of International...

Language in International Business: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

A fast growing number of studies demonstrates that language diversity influences almost all management decisions in modern multinational corporations. Whereas no doubt remains about the practical importance of language, the empirical invest...

Colour-Blind Attitudes among Welfare Professionals: Examining the Relationship Between Colour-Blind Attitudes, Anti-immigration Attitudes and Social Desirability

Colour blindness is a concept that is established in the US context, and it has gained increased attention among European scholars. Yet we find less studies in the European context that measure colour-blind attitudes and show its prevalence...

Social Innovation in Education and Social Service Organizations. Challenges, Actors, and Approaches to Foster Social Innovation

Social innovation became a widely discussed topic in politics, research funding programs, and business development. Recent European and US economic and science policies have set aside significant funds to generate and foster social innovati...

The Life is “Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish”, But Not Short: The Deserted Old in the Extreme Reality

Aging is an inevitable reality of human lives, and hundreds of thousands of studies address the questions of what makes people old. However, the underlying fact behind the question of what makes us old is the apprehension to face the grim r...

FORMAL AND SIGNIFICANT MUTATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DIPLOMACY

The purpose of this thesis is to make an empirical research over the existing literature regarding the new paradigms of diplomacy in the new era and identify future approaches of the field that enhance our understanding over the subject. Fu...

Islamic Financial Literacy and Sustainable Financial Performance: The Mediating Role of Green Banking

This study examines the effect of Islamic financial literacy on sustainable financial performance, with green banking as a mediating variable in Islamic banking institutions in Semarang City, Indonesia. A quantitative approach was employed ...

Role of AI and IoT in Advancing Renewable Energy Use in Agriculture

This paper discusses how integrating renewable energy, AI, and IoT becomes important in promoting climate-smart agriculture. Due to the changing climate, rise in energy costs, and ensuring food security, agriculture faces unprecedented chal...

Partnership for large and small businesses in the development strategy of the industrialized region

The article deals with the integration of large and small businesses in order to increase mutual effectiveness. Currently, large business, mainly in form of transnational and national corporations, is the foundation of the economy on a glob...

BRIDGING GENDER GAPS IN TOURISM: EXPLORING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Tourism plays a vital role in driving economic growth and community development. The active participation of diverse social groups is essential to achieving sustainable tourism. However, the persistence of patriarchal norms continues to h...

Disintegration of the World Trade System: Reasons and Consequences

The article presents the study results of the world trade stagnation issues associated with the WTO systemic crisis. The aim of the article is to summarize the main reasons for the world trade system disintegration and to identify feasible ...

A theory of algorithmic markets

This paper develops a dynamic framework for analyzing markets in which decision-making is increasingly delegated to adaptive algorithms. In contrast to classical approaches that treat equilibrium as the primitive object of analysis, the fra...

Conceptual System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modelling Simulation of Interorganisational Fairness in Food Value Chains: Research Agenda and Case Studies

System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple produ...

An Investigation into the Effect of Knowledge Management on Employee Retention in the Telecom Sector

Employees in the telecom sector are knowledge workers and, thus, managers, HR professionals, and policymakers in the industry need to retain them through knowledge management policies. It is against this premise that this study investigated...

A techno-economic quantification of carbon reduction strategies in the Trinidad and Tobago power generation sector using Carbon Emission Pinch Analysis (CEPA)

Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) conditional commitment to the Paris Agreement requires an overall power emission avoidance (EAT) of 28.7 MtCO2-e from Business-As-Usual by 2030, dependent on international financing. T&T has outlined several init...

Does the Effectiveness of Risk Management Committee Mitigate Earnings Management Practices?

Recently, there has been a lot of debate on the issues of earnings management practices. Most of these arguments have been confirmed by past studies in developed economies, where their regulations and institutional settings of corporate gov...