This introduction sketches out what relevance wood and wood products have had in Europe's industrial societies. It also summarizes some peculiarities of the wood-based businesses caused by both the materiality of wood and the ecologies of forests. Most importantly, the introduction...

The era of free trade seems to be over. Increasing protectionism and new or intensified trade wars are to be expected at the latest with the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump. Tariff threats and geopolitical conflicts are focussing attention on the issue of (supply) security....

The study investigates the challenges to stability in international (agricultural) trade flows, driven by escalating geopolitical and geoeconomic disruption. Against the backdrop of growing protectionist tendencies and the increasing securitisation of international trade, the article addresses...

Given the prevalence of dual directors who serve simultaneously on the parent as well as the subsidiary board, it is important to examine their functions, a topic largely ignored in the existing literature. Exploring the functions of dual directors highlights equity carve-out objectives other...

This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period of massive trade opening in the early 1990s in Latin...

The purpose of this paper is to use China’s World Trade Organization accession as a quasi-natural experiment and examine whether conglomeration affects firmss’ ability to respond to a significant increase in competitive pressure. Conglomerate segments have higher sales growth and higher...