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International agricultural trade regulation remains problematic despite the creation of the WTO and a specific Agreement on Agriculture in 1995. This title challenges this orthodoxy and presents a fresh conceptual method by which the problem of international agricultural trade in the WTO can be understood

"In this article we examine the role of right-wing parties in framing and mobilizing national identity against European integration. Using a multi-level analysis and combining individual-level and contextual data, we analyze public support for European integration within the Western European member states of the European Union from 1992 to 2002. The empirical analysis shows that national identities are contested and constructed within national contexts and that right-wing populist elites act as influential political cues in this process. Populist political entrepreneurs on the right side of the political spectrum play a decisive role in framing opposition to supranational governance with defense of the national community." (author's abstract)

Bargaining theory is used to evaluate the proposition that asymmetrical economic interdependence among states is a source of political power. It is shown that asymmetrical economic interdependence does not imply that less dependent actors will be able to exercise political influence over more dependent ones. The use of economic interdependence for political influence requires, instead, that the exchange of economic resources for political concessions make both parties to a relationship better off than they would be if they bargained over the distribution of the gains from the economic relationship alone. Whether this is true is independent of the degree of asymmetry in the economic relationship, or its direction. An explanation is given for the fact that other scholars have reached different conclusions, and the implications of these results for our understanding of a variety of types of relations among governments are derived.

"Compte rendu sténographique". ; Previously unpublished special numbers [no. 14, 26, 30, 33, 35-36, 39-40, 46, 48, 51, 53, 61, 68] of "La Correspondance internationale", 1926, consolidated in one volume. ; Mode of access: Internet.

To what extent has the macro-economic crisis of national governments and financial institutions affected ordinary Europeans at the micro-economic level? Eurobarometer surveys from all 27 European Union (EU) member states show that most individuals are coping with the crisis much better than their governments. Individual characteristics that caused people to have financial difficulties when the macro-economy was booming continue to be important, while groups such as pensioners are better able to cope than persons of working age. When Russians are compared with people from Central and Eastern Europe, similar influences hold and the political effects are marginal. In sum, the instability experienced in public and private sector financial institutions has had limited spillover effects on ordinary people. Adapted from the source document.

The future of interfirm contract research : opportunities based on prior research and nontraditional tools / Libby Weber, Kyle J. Mayer, Rui Wu -- Reprinted article putting patents in context : exploring knowledge transfer from MIT / Ajay K. Agrawal, Rebecca Henderson -- Alliances and performance / Joanne E. Oxley -- Reprinted article appropriability hazards and governance in strategic alliances : a transaction cost approach / Joanne E. Oxley -- A strategic look at the organizational form of franchising / Steven C. Michael, Janet E.L. Bercovitz -- Internal organization from a transaction cost perspective / Nicholas S. Argyres -- Organizational economics insights from acquisitions research / Jeffrey J. Reuer -- Limits to the scale and scope of the firm / Todd R. Zenger, Jeffrey Xiaofei Huang -- Diversification, industry structure, and firm strategy : an organizational economics perspective / Peter G. Klein, Lasse B. Lien -- Transaction costs in technology transfer and implications for strategy / Ajay K. Agrawal -- Intellectual property regimes and firm strategy : putting Hall and Ziedonis (2001) in perspective / Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Reprinted article the patent paradox revisited : an empirical study of patenting in the U.S. semiconductor industry, 1979-1995 / Bronwyn H. Hall, Rosemarie H. Ziedonis -- Value creation and appropriation through geographic strategy : evidence from foreign direct investment / Miguel A. Ramos, J. Myles Shaver -- Strategic organization of R&D / Bruno Cassiman, Alfonso Gambardella -- Beyond the economic institutions of strategy : strategic responses to institutional variation / Witold J. Henisz -- Reprinted article the institutional environment for multinational investment / Witold J. Henisz -- Integrated political strategy / John M. de Figueiredo -- Contracting with governments / Eric Brousseau, St(c)Øephane Saussier -- New frontiers in strategic management of organizational change / Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman -- Opportunities and new business models : transaction cost and property rights perspectives on entrepreneurship / Nils Stieglitz, Nicolai J. Foss -- The problem solving perspective : a strategic approach to understanding environment and organization / Michael J. Leiblein, Jeffrey T. Macher -- Foreword to economic institutions of strategy / Oliver E. Williamson -- Introduction / Jackson A. Nickerson, Brian S. Silverman

This book shows how the current reform in investment regulation is part of a broader attempt to transform the international economic order. Countries in the North and South are currently rethinking how economic order should be constituted in order to advance their national interests and preferred economic orientation. While some countries in the North seek to create alternative institutional spaces in order to promote neoliberal policies more effectively, some countries in the South are increasingly skeptical of this version of economic order and are experimenting with alternative versions of legal ordering that do not always sit well with mainstream versions promoted by the North. While we recognize that there are differences in approaches to the investment regimes proposed by countries in the South, we identify commonalities that could function as the founding pillars of an alternative economic order.

"The paper analyses the changing architecture of the European automotive industry
following the inclusion of East Central European (ECE) states into cross-border production
networks. It identifies distinct periods of the sector's expansion to ECE, each marked by different
policies of automotive OEMs and accompanied by varying responses by governments
and unions. The first phase, lasting until late 1990s, was characterised by a predominantly
market-seeking orientation of carmakers towards ECE and a clear-cut, hierarchical division of
competences between "new" and "old" sites, not conducive to the emergence of cross-border
union contacts. In the late 1990s, however, postcommunist countries' production profiles
became similar to those of advanced West European producers, such as Germany, largely due
to the organisational changes within the sector and FDI-attracting policies launched by ECE
states. This spurred German unions' interests in cooperating with their Eastern counterparts,
in an effort to attenuate cross-border competitive pressure and eliminate the East-West
benchmarking threat. Finally, the recent crisis brought increasing involvement of Western
states in the industry's affairs and the corresponding "national turn" in unions' behaviour." (author's abstract)