The Changing Global Power Balance : Challenges for European Firms

Catia Fernandes Crespo

ISBN 10: 1836627653 / ISBN 13: 9781836627654

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited Jun 2025, 2025

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Neuware - This volume covers three key vectors: The changing global power balance in the world economy, how to deal with rapid changes in technology and innovation, and how to understand and assess the resulting challenges for Europe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Changing Global Power Balance : Challenges for European Firms
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Jun 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1836627653
• ISBN 13: 9781836627654
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 33D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 738 grams

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Synopsis

The 2023 conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) was held in Lisbon, three decades after the previous EIBA Lisbon conference in 1993. Over this 30-year period, the international business environment changed dramatically, passing through phases of globalisation, increased nationalistic sentiments in a large number of countries, and a ‘cascade of crises’ or a ‘poly-crisis’. Currently, MNEs operate within a changing global power balance, with China and its allies challenging the hegemony of the U.S. and its allies. For European MNEs as well as for policy makers, the world economy is no longer characterized by a clear set of relatively stable enabling global conditions but rather by increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA).

Volume 19 of the Progress in International Business Research (PIBR) series covers three key vectors: The changing global power balance in the world economy, how to deal with rapid changes in technology and innovation, and how to understand and assess the resulting challenges for Europe. A wide variety of perspectives are presented here, including a chapter from Elisa Ferreira, the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, who takes stock of the present situation and looks into the future from a European policy perspective. By choosing ‘innovation’ as a major area of focus, we pay tribute to one of the leading international business authors in that area – and a long-term EIBA member – John Cantwell.

About the Author

Rob van Tulder is emeritus full Professor of International Business - Society Management at RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and AIB and EIBA fellow.

Nuno Fernandes Crespo is Associate Professor at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon (Portugal). EIBA President (2023).

Vítor Corado Simões is a Professor at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon (Portugal). EIBA Fellow. EIBA President (1993).

Cátia Fernandes Crespo is currently Adjunct Professor at the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic of Leiria (Portugal).