This article presents an interview technique adjusted for use within a firm's environment. The Structure Laying Technique (Flick, 2009) is a powerful form of a problem-centered interview, most appropriate for revealing the implicit theories held by interviewees. The issue is that this method...

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the effects of economic diplomacy on international flows (trade and FDI). The tools of economic diplomacy under investigation in our study are: embassies, other foreign offices, investment promotion offices, export promotion offices, trade missions and...

Heterodox economists have ‘always’ criticized mainstream economic textbooks, but what about criticisms put forward by mainstream economists? A limited but lively and rather overlooked mainstream debate is identified in this essay, in which the general message is that there is a critical gap...

The marketing and sales polices of Iranian crude oil have been revised and changed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Production policy that drastically cut back production in order to maintain oil reserves for future generations. In terms of marketing Iranian crude oil, the new revolutionary...

CGEMs are one of the most potentially powerful tools for simulating policies. However, a major restriction they face is them needing a huge number of parameters that are not always available, and even at times impossible to obtain. When CGEMs are applied to trade, Armington elasticities of...

This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...

The paper discusses the subject matter and approach of business ethics, and reflects on the roles of philosophy and economics in this field. I argue that, although established economics and ethics seem to be obvious reference points for business ethics, the methods of business ethics cannot just...