Among the many forms the process of contemporay financial globalization takes, one of the most challenging is the search of the firms to raise capital in other countries. The effects of such a process are very complex and challenge the traditional wisdom. Such firms, even if they bear a certain...

The present paper will attempt to explore the argumentation frequently employed in the public discourse – but less in economic theory – by different categories of stakeholders that the exhaustion of world oil reserves will have a dramatic impact on global economic growth and development....

The recent punishment of the biggest global microprocessor producer, Intel Corporation, for the alleged break of the European legislation in the competition field is a result easy to have been anticipated starting with 2004, when European Commission fined the biggest global producer of operation...

Business literature, especially in the field of operations management, advanced several models of production systems used by firms, among which we can recall Fordism and Toyotism. While such a literature analyses the strenghts and weaknesses of each of these models, highlinghting their impact on...

The issue of whether a state has the ability to foster economic development despite what seems to be adverse conditions confronting it lies at the core of the field of international economics. Besides economic theory, public policy-making has a strong interest in such a debate. Why some states...