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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
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National minorities and national policy in the Southern Urals in the 1930s
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2023 Background. Modern Russia is a multinational unity due to the historically established national policy. The study of the historical experience of the administrative-territorial structure, cultural and educational policy among the non-Russian population
Albina I. Azhigulova
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Soviet Physicians and Struggle against Epidemics in Xinjiang: Late 1920s – 1940s
Oriental Studies, 2023 Introduction. The long-overlooked topic of Soviet–Xinjiang medical cooperation can facilitate a better understanding of why Xinjiang was that important to the USSR in the interwar period.
Vsevolod Yu. Bashkuev
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Soviet Youth Films under Brezhnev: Watching Between the Lines [PDF]
, 2013 The central argument of my dissertation emerges from the idea that genre cinema, exemplified by youth films, became a safe outlet for Soviet filmmakers’ creative energy during the period of so-called “developed socialism.” A growing interest in youth ...
Klimova, Olga
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Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary The rise of emerging market lead firms (LFs) in global value chains (GVCs) challenges the prevailing view that only multinational corporations (MNCs) from advanced economies lead systems integration, design, and innovation activities.
Yuanyuan Wu, Paola Perez‐Aleman
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
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, 2010 At the beginning of the Cold War, the gathering of intelligence on the Soviet Union's current and future military capability seemed a near-impossibility. Soviet high-level communications were secure against decryption.
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Allocation under dictatorship : research in Stalin’s archives [PDF]
, 2005 We survey recent research on the Soviet economy in the state, party, and military archives of the Stalin era. The archives have provided rich new evidence on the economic arrangements of a command system under a powerful dictator including Stalin’s ...
Harrison, Mark +3 more
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Geopolitics and global strategy: Making money under anarchy
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Multinational firms conduct cross‐border trade and investment in a world of anarchy, where nation‐states must secure their survival in the absence of a world government. We develop a geopolitical‐economic order (GEO) framework to argue that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types ...
Daniel J. Blake +2 more
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Secrecy, Fear and Transaction Costs: The Business of Soviet Forced Labour in the Early Cold War [PDF]
In 1949 the Cold War was picking up momentum. The Soviet state had entered its most secretive phase. The official rationale of secrecy was defense against external enemies.
Harrison, Mark
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