With the increasing interest in business relationship issues, relationship value has emerged as an important aspect. What makes a business relationship valuable for the standpoint of the customer has become critical for supplier. The present paper reviews the alternative conceptualizations and...

Growing scientific evidence suggests that human-induced climate change will bring about large-scale forced international migration and resettlement, with potentially millions of people displaced by coastal flooding, extreme weather events and agricultural disruptions. The probable occurrence of...

The relationship between aspects of environmental uncertainty, such as dynamism and hostility, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been well established in the literature. Drawing predominantly on perceptions of uncertainty, there is general consensus that dynamism and hostility nurtures...

Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of economic activity. We engage with Williamson’s (1996) challenge to organizational scholars to address ‘which transactions go where and why?’ to explain the...

A corollary of the principle of comparative advantage is that international trade will lead to economic convergence between countries. This encouragement of development makes trade a central part of the economic policies of agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank....

Business Globalization carries with it a justification based in part on democracy in markets: equal opportunity in market exchange. Markets admit all comers; outcomes are determined by endowments of quality, efficiency, and merit. In this way businesses, governments, organizations and...

Co-production and strategic partnerships may generate valuable learning opportunities for firms to access to the knowledge and expertise of their partners. Such sharing and transfer of knowledge has become an increasingly common way for organising corporate finance and resources. However, not...