This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework that maps and disentangles the impact of different types...

• Russia is a pill Europe cannot swallow nor can spill; exit costs from Russian trade and foreign relations will have long lasting and adverse effects on businesses and trade globally.• The factors discussed in this article indicate the economic war in Europe. Greece bail out or not, Russia...

Does it pay to be a multinational? Despite decades of empirical research, we still do not know. We undertake a large‐sample, cross‐national replication of Lu and Beamish (2004) and Berry and Kaul's (2016) works to examine whether the multinationality–performance relationship is S‐shaped...

An estimated quarter- to half-million guns are smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico each year. Seventy percent of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes are traced back to the U.S. Many of these weapons are military-styled assault rifles, shipped into Mexico by U.S. drug gangs. This pipeline...

The recent Covid-19 global health crisis not only brings into sharp relief the current problems afflicting the international intellectual property regime (IIPR) but also calls into question its legitimacy as an interna- tional authority. Against this backdrop, the article aims to launch an...

The Appellate Body crisis unveiled the unprecedented challenges which has long plagued the internal structure of the WTO Dispute Settlement System. The purpose of this paper is to make a critical assessment of the foundational issues that resulted to the appellate body crisis, examine the...

SMEs play an important role in the world economy and contribute substantially to income, output and employment. Reaching global markets is a dream for every. Opening new markets enables firms to increase their sales and hence enabling growth, through increased customer base. Risk is spread by...

The last decade has witnessed remarkable developments in the digital economy, creating new opportunities for crossborder trade and investment and the ongoing emergence of novel and disruptive businesses models. At the same time, the Internet is transforming how goods and services are produced,...

Defined as a single industrial sector, the global production, distribution and consumption of energy is the world’s largest in terms of annual capital investment (US$1.83 trillion in 2019) and the second largest nonfinancial industry in terms of sales revenue ($4.51 trillion). Over 100 million...