This paper reports a study of how the Indian IT industry navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Agility emerged as the crucial determining factor aiding the industry's successful survival. IT organisations' agility, facilitated by the state's response to the pandemic and by both their anticipation of...

This paper reports a study of how the Indian IT industry navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Agility emerged as the crucial determining factor aiding the industry's successful survival. IT organisations' agility, facilitated by the state's response to the pandemic and by both their anticipation of...

Economic development under capitalism is uneven, both socially and spatially. The existing literature, both mainstream social sciences and Marxist political economy, generally separates social inequality (inequality among classes and class-fractions) from spatial inequality. It also pays...

The rise of the middle classes in the Global South plays a key role in global development arguments characterized by "converging divergence," where there are decreasing inequalities between countries and increasing inequalities within countries. The concept of the middle class in the social...

The rise of the middle classes in the Global South plays a key role in global development arguments characterized by "converging divergence," where there are decreasing inequalities between countries and increasing inequalities within countries. The concept of the middle class in the social...

מלחמת הקודש המתנהלת בין המיליציות הרבניות לבין המיליציות האיסלמיות הינה מסוג חדש. אבל הדרך למלחמה בעזה נסללה עוד לפני כששת אלפים שנה, בעת שקמו לראשונה משטרי...

As a research field, social movement and political project, degrowth is a multifaceted phenomenon. It brings together a range of practices including alternative forms of living and transformative initiatives in civil society, business and the state. Yet no comprehensive theory of degrowth...

Making security has been Leviathan's home turf and its prime responsibility. Yet, while security states in advanced democracies share this uniform purpose, there is vast variation in how they legitimize and how they make security policies. First, the political authority of elected...

Carter (2024) examines the historical conditions that shape protection versus assimilation for indigenous communities, arguing that state-led conscription programs are one such factor. In a natural experiment leveraging conscription for a 1920s Peruvian highway designed to replicate a...

The development of the healthcare system is an important task for every country, given that long-term economic and social development is absolutely impossible without a healthy nation. Therefore, improving public health and ensuring that the maximum number of people have access to quality...

This editorial revisits the state - global production network (GPN) nexus in times of multiple crises affecting the global economy and society. Setting the scene, we first reflect on the role of geopolitics in transforming GPNs under conditions of increasing uncertainty before turning our...

A shifting paradigm in economic policy is re-asserting the centrality of the state for the transformative overhaul of global energy systems. Amid a burgeoning interest in state policy, however, contemporary scholarly discussions often lack a comprehensive examination of the state itself. We...

This editorial revisits the state - global production network (GPN) nexus in times of multiple crises affecting the global economy and society. Setting the scene, we first reflect on the role of geopolitics in transforming GPNs under conditions of increasing uncertainty before turning our...

A shifting paradigm in economic policy is re-asserting the centrality of the state for the transformative overhaul of global energy systems. Amid a burgeoning interest in state policy, however, contemporary scholarly discussions often lack a comprehensive examination of the state itself. We...

We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger institutions have had the highest numbers of cases and...

One of the most important and recurring debates in the field of International Political Economy and international affairs are the links between capitalism, fossil fuel energy and climate change. In these debates, the origins of our current climate emergency are rooted in how Britain became the...

L'Allemagne et la France se caractérisent par deux modèles différents d'organisation politique et administrative: un État fédéral d'un côté du Rhin et un État unitaire de l'autre, bien qu'il se soit décentralisé au cours des quarante dernières années. Ainsi, les régions françaises...

Als Bundesstaat auf der einen Seite des Rheins und als Einheitsstaat auf der anderen Seite, der jedoch in den letzten 40 Jahren stärker dezentralisiert wurde, bieten Deutschland und Frankreich zwei unterschiedliche Modelle der politischen und administrativen Organisation. So haben die...

We stand now at a turning point, wherein many roads sprawl out in front of us. With unprecedented access to information, the atlas seems to lie within our hands. But, at this crossroads, the popularizers of these many paths shout over one another to persuade new travelers, only to find that most...

This paper employs computational linguistics to introduce a novel text-based measure of firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings conference calls of listed firms. Our quarterly measures are available for more than 13,000 firms from 85 countries over 2002-2021. We document that...

How do social changes, new technologies or new management trends affect communication work? A team of researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) observed new developments in related disciplines. As a result, the five most important trends for corporate...

What is the long-term effect of theocracy on religiosity and pro-religious political preferences? I exploit a quasi-experiment in Italy, where a large river constituted the border between the theocratic Papal States and a secular, progressive state for three centuries. However, inheritance norms...

Throughout history, governments have engaged in exchange with private actors. Recent work has documented the prevalence of opportunism in a number of government bounty schemes, exploring how private entrepreneurs may rook the state and hence undermine the stated aims of these programs. We draw...

Authored by the University of Cambridge SupTech Lab, the State of SupTech Report 2022 presents insights on the current state of the digital transformation of financial supervision based on engagement with 146 supervisory agencies globally, including: i) Suptech demand from financial authorities,...

L’Allemagne et la France se caractérisent par deux modèles différents d’organisation politique et administrative: un État fédéral d’un côté du Rhin et un État unitaire de l’autre, bien qu’il se soit décentralisé au cours des quarante dernières années. Ainsi, les régions...

Als Bundesstaat auf der einen Seite des Rheins und als Einheitsstaat auf der anderen Seite, der jedoch in den letzten 40 Jahren stärker dezentralisiert wurde, bieten Deutschland und Frankreich zwei unterschiedliche Modelle der politischen und administrativen Organisation. So haben die...

This paper aims at investigating hospitality employers and employees' perceptions regarding governmental policies and measures implemented during Covid 19 crisis, in the Algarve, one of the most tourist regions of Portugal. The methodological framework is associated with a case study based on a...

Turkey has pursued a policy of divestiture over the past four decades. Yet, it seems that the scholarly research has largely neglected a full account of the recent divestitures. To fill the gap in the literature, this article employs a Marxian analytical framework to explain divestitures in...

Based on the data provided in the 2022 Sustainable Development Report the so-called People pillar, i.e., the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1-5 are studied to elucidate the state of compliance as well as the trends in development for the 193 countries included in the report. Data for all...