Exploiting the economic dividends of the mega-infrastructure investments related to the Belt and Road Initiative as a timely global South-South cooperation model, this study follows the New Structural Economics theory to examine the effects of the BRI membership on Africa's industrialization. A...

Today's ecological and political instability has stimulated interest in how similar problems have arisen in the past - and how they have been resolved. But this research has long been divided along different research traditions. I draw together five broad research strands: neo-institutionalism,...

Today's ecological and political instability has stimulated interest in how similar problems have arisen in the past - and how they have been resolved. But this research has long been divided along different research traditions. I draw together five broad research strands: neo-institutionalism,...

In the second half of the XX century the neo-Malthusian theory became the basis for the practical politics of many developing countries. Thus, governments­ have recognized that Malthusian laws are a?reality of the traditional society­, that they are the laws of history. The neo-Malthusian...

Purpose – Aims to prove that a firm's perception of the strategic nature of supply depends on how it defines its competitive advantage within the marketplace. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected using a random stratified cross‐sectional design from 142 large manufacturing...