According to the information revolution, the most important characteristic of knowledge is to be sought in this equation: knowledge = information. This involves reducing different facets of knowledge to quantitative information which leads to knowledge legitimacy crisis. In addition, having a...

International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and market correcting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...

Companies are dedicated to being sustainable organizations through building long-term shareholder value while being a responsible corporate citizen. It is globally believed that the only way to achieve that is to incorporate economic, social and environmental codes of conduct into business...

This report explores the growing importance of corporate headquarters in a world of global value chains. It examines the real and purported benefits of hosting corporate headquarters, and recent trends in location and operation of headquarters around the world and in Canada. It concludes with...

In the past decade, policymakers and others in a number of developed countries have expressed concern that firms in their countries appear to be increasingly locating their R&D facilities outside the home country. For example, in Foray and van Ark (2007), we read: “There are concerns expressed...

Civil unrest is a powerful form of collective human dynamics, which has led to major transitions of societies in modern history. The study of collective human dynamics, including collective aggression, has been the focus of much discussion in the context of modeling and identification of...

Globalizationis viewed as a centuries-long process, tracking the expansion of human population and the growth of civilization, which has accelerated dramatically in the past 50 years. The verb globalize was first attested by the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1944, however its concepts permeated...

The term “neoliberalism” is encountered everywhere today. In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a place-holder for “contemporary capitalism”, “austerity politics”, and “all that is bad in our world”, giving that rhetoric the appearance of a new diagnostic edge....

Corporate communication is becoming increasingly international. Very little is known, however, about the profile, business context and qualifications of German PR specialists responsible for this worldwide communication. This article reports on the initial findings of a new study on this topic

The emergence of integrative trade and global value chains (GVCs) over the past 20 years has changed the competitive landscape in international goods and services markets. Competition in many lines of businesses, particularly in the manufacturing sector, is now taking place more at a value chain...