In a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world, technology disrupts and globalization magnifies and propagates the dramatic changes in the workplace, in communications and transactions, and the way companies operate and create value. New groups of multinational companies emerge ("Digital...

In this contribution, the meaning of economic nationalism and the possibilities of pursuing nationalist policies in the context of increasingly interdependent economic processes are discussed. Economic nationalism need not solely be affiliated with statist protectionism, while very few states...

The aim of this chapter is to present the stages of development of corporate governance of the European Commission by referring to Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and their role in the Industrial Policy of the EU. The latter refers to measures aimed at stimulating growth and...

Since 2010, the EU policy concerning the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy aimed to advance EU growth with concrete actions, in order to "unleash the potential of e-commerce". Among the major achievements of the Digital Single Market Strategy is the Regulation on Online...

The present chapter discusses the relationship between small and medium enterprises and state aid. SMEs are very essential to promote competitiveness, job creation, economic growth, social stability and a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the EU. For that reason they are at...

The paper focuses on the financial support provided, in terms of both funding schemes as well as actual funds, by the Structural Funds to Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), within the Cohesion Policy Framework. For this purpose, a special report of the European Court of Auditors is...

The EU faces a disinvestment crisis. Its response was the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) that I first attempted to evaluate in a 2016 paper. In this chapter, I pursue the endeavor by analyzing three basic points of the EFSI, inasmuch as these are the main aspects that were found...

This chapter investigates the impact of FDI on the GDP, in three groups of European countries; the European Union countries (EU-28), the Euro Area countries (EA-19), and the Eastern European Countries (EEC). An empirical model for this correlation was used to calculate the level of this...

The present contribution discusses foreign direct investments in the Russian Federation, mainly after the imposition of the western sanctions, the state of play of the European sanctions, and uses the Western Balkan countries as a case study of Russian and European influence in their economic...

The current European financial crisis is a triple threat and the austerity measures that have been pursued to tackle it (at least so far) have led to a fiscal trap that slides into a deflationary vortex which, on the one hand, pushes economies into a recession by increasing the number of the...