Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the role that different structures of socially embedded networks themselves play in tax non‐compliance or evasion, and the contribution that an application of network analysis can make to the study of tax compliance regulation....

Jardine Matheson & Company is a Hong Kong multi‐industry conglomerate that has gone through political upheaval, global and regional economic crises, and has survived and transformed itself several times in the process. Firm learning and adaptability are audited across five breakpoints (1832,...

Posits that, during the 1980s, many Western multinational corporations (MNCs) were seen as lumbering giants, going the same way as dinosaurs. Looks at globalization and its effects, with particular events from the protest in Seattle, in 1999, where 50,000 protestors against the WTO were involved...

Addresses cultural differences, stressing diversity should be seen as a benefit but that they are overlaid by inequalities within teams. Identifies eight contributory factors, offering guidance to team leaders on how to get to grips with them: cultural norms; individual behaviour; communication;...

This paper looks at some aspects of trade and investment relations between the EU and the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEEC). The approach used is based on a model of trade with, and development of, a frontier by a metropolitan economy developed by Ronald Findlay. Findlay’s model...

This essay sheds light on the problems arising from trade between asymmetric countries, particularly when associated with a different degree of power. At present, when the importance of external trade is clearly increasing and different countries of different size, wealth and stage of economic...

This paper looks at some aspects of trade and investment relations between the EU and the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEEC). The approach used is based on a model of trade with, and development of, a frontier by a metropolitan economy developed by Ronald Findlay. Findlay’s model...