Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2023.2165202
Mohsen Bahmani‐Oskooee, Ferda Halicioglu, H. Karamelikli
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2023.2165770
G. Clarke
Dear Readers, Welcome to the first issue of The International Trade Journal (ITJ)’s thirtyseventh volume, our annual special issue containing selected papers from the Western Hemispheric Trade Conference. The 26 Annual Conference was sponsored by Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), the A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business, and the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade, in partnership with the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT) Facultad de Comercio, Administración y Ciencias Sociales. The conference was held between April 6 April 8, 2022. Participants presented 87 papers in 24 in-person and online sessions. Electronic proceedings were also published, and the best papers were selected for this special issue of The International Trade Journal. The 26 Annual Conference kicked off on Wednesday, April 6th, with a keynote address by Jason Marczak, Senior Director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. His keynote address was entitled “The New U.S.-Latin America Relationship: Where are We Headed?” During his talk, Mr. Marczak touched on many important questions about the region. First, he argued that the region is changing rapidly. Some of these changes are due to COVID-19, which will continue to be an issue throughout the region, especially for poorer households. He argued that the pandemic exacerbated many of the region’s problems including inequality, poverty, and corruption. Another important change is the rise of populism throughout the region, potentially undermining democracy. Second, he noted that China is playing an increasingly active role in the region including in trade, infrastructure investment, and even vaccine diplomacy. This has allowed countries to reorient their economies and politics away from the United States. Given increased tensions between the United States and China, China’s growing importance in the region is likely to present some new challenges for the US. He argued that one thing the US could do to deal with the challenge from China would be to make more US investment available. Third, he argued that the US has many untapped opportunities to work with countries in the region and that US policy will need to adapt. He noted that many countries have become frustrated with US policy, which is often seen as scattershot and focused on US
尊敬的读者:欢迎阅读《国际贸易杂志》(ITJ)第37卷的第一期，这是我们的年度特刊，其中包括来自西半球贸易会议的精选论文。第26届年会由德克萨斯A&M国际大学(TAMIU)、A.R. Sanchez, Jr.商学院和西半球贸易研究中心主办，并与塔毛利帕斯州大学(UAT)商业学院Administración y Ciencias Sociales合作。会议于2022年4月6日至4月8日举行。参与者在24次面对面和在线会议中发表了87篇论文。会议还发表了电子论文集，并选出了最好的论文发表在本期《国际贸易杂志》特刊上。第26届年会于4月6日周三开幕，大西洋理事会Adrienne Arsht拉丁美洲中心高级主任Jason Marczak发表了主题演讲。他的主题演讲题为“新的美国-拉丁美洲关系:我们向何处去?”马尔扎克先生在讲话中谈到了有关该地区的许多重要问题。首先，他认为该地区正在迅速变化。其中一些变化是由于COVID-19造成的，这将继续是整个地区的一个问题，特别是对较贫困的家庭。他认为，疫情加剧了该地区的许多问题，包括不平等、贫困和腐败。另一个重要的变化是民粹主义在整个地区的兴起，这可能会破坏民主。第二，他指出，中国在该地区的贸易、基础设施投资甚至疫苗外交方面发挥着越来越积极的作用。这使得各国能够重新调整经济和政治方向，使其远离美国。鉴于中美之间日益紧张的关系，中国在该地区日益增长的重要性可能会给美国带来一些新的挑战。他认为，为了应对来自中国的挑战，美国可以做的一件事是让更多的美国投资进入中国。第三，他认为，美国在与该地区国家合作方面有许多尚未开发的机会，美国的政策需要做出调整。他指出，许多国家对美国的政策感到失望，美国的政策往往被视为漫无目的，只关注美国
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Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2155270
J. Blyde
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Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2149639
Ziad Ghaith, S. Kulshreshtha, D. Natcher
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Pub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2147107
C. Montaudon-Tomas, Anna Amsler, I. N. Pinto-López, Claudia Malcón-Cervera
ABSTRACT Even before the COVID-19 pandemic started, waves of unhappy workers had already spread ideas about their search for better working conditions. This article presents a collection of the most common ideas and notions that help to understand the shifts in employees’ perception of the workplace and their relationship to it. Emerging ideas about what the future will bring as a consequence of the Great Resignation are also included. Information was collected from news and management articles through content and trend-search analysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2148783
Olivija Filipovska, Marija Pendevska
ABSTRACT Technical advancements challenge traditional organizational structures, requiring more flexible, proactive, transparent, and inclusive financial services. The efforts to implement technological advancements in reducing the timeframe for executing financial services, but also maintaining safe and transparent financial services, require a high level of functional and technical knowledge. Using appropriate risk management and organizational knowledge flow for constant innovation optimizes the knowledge gaps and different knowledge levels.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2142706
Rusty V. Karst, Nolan T. Gaffney, Andrew Johnson
ABSTRACT The institutional context of firm internationalization has become increasingly important to research and practice. Institutional influence and effects are well documented across diverse aspects of firm internationalization. However, less is known about the reciprocal interplay of relationships between institutions and internationalization, and how this may spur their asymmetric co-evolution over time – as differentially influenced by highly varying forces and factors. We contribute to the literature by unpacking these relationships, introducing a model with propositions to account for the simultaneous interactions of institutions and internationalization leading to asymmetric co-evolution over time, and by extending unique theoretical support for the co-evolution process.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2140230
Leiza Nochebuena-Evans
ABSTRACT Supply chain finance (SCF) is a buyer-led financial innovation used to optimize working capital and increase liquidity within the supply chain. Advertised as win-win, little is known of the benefits to firms or shareholders. I explore whether these arrangements are beneficial to the initiating firm and whether such benefits percolate to the buyer’s investors. I find that although a firm’s days payable outstanding increases post-adoption, SCF arrangements are not beneficial to all firms. Liquidity and profitability decrease post-adoption. I also find that shareholders respond negatively to SCF adoptions, but this response may be attenuated by some firms increasing share repurchases.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2022.2139925
G. G. Clarke
Dear Readers, Welcome to the final issue of The International Trade Journal (ITJ)’s thirtysixth volume. The articles in this issue focus on technology and telecommunications. The first three articles look at different aspects of the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICT) and international trade. The fourth article looks at intellectual property rights provisions of international trade agreements. The fifth article looks at innovation by palm oil exporters in Colombia, while the final article looks at India’s draft e-commerce policy. The first article in this issue, by Simon Abendin, Duan Pingfang, and Etse Nkukpornu, looks at how ICT use has affected trade between the 15 countries in the Economic Community of West African States. Their measure of digital technology takes into account electronic sharing of information, big data use, cross-border e-commerce, mobile and fixed broadband use, basic and advanced digital skills, internet use, and the availability of digital public services. They combine their different measures into a single index using principal component analysis. They find that countries that use digital technologies more intensively trade more with other countries in the region than do countries that have adopted digital technologies less aggressively. The second article, by Radovan Kastratović and Predrag Bjelić, also looks at the relationship between ICT use and exports in 32 European countries. They use three separate variables to capture different aspects of ICT use: percent of turnover from e-commerce, percent of workers that use internet connected computers, and the share of the population that has interacted with public officials over the Internet. They analyze how ICT use has affected service, manufacturing, and agricultural exports. The only measure of ICT use that is consistently associated with exports is the measure of e-commerce. Countries where e-commerce is better developed have higher service and manufacturing exports than other countries. They do not, however, have higher agricultural exports. In contrast, the other two measures are not significantly correlated with any of the three export variables. The third article, by Reth Soeng and Ludo Cuyvers, also looks at how ICT development affects trade, focusing on Cambodia’s service exports. They describe the legal, institutional, and policy framework in the country and look at how the sector’s development has affected Cambodia’s service exports. Using panel data from between 1995 and 2012, they find that ICT development is positively
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