Provides insights into business partnerships and international economic interdependence. This book concentrates on the specification of partnerships and reasons for business partnerships in the context of a globalisation.

The turbulence in world markets follows from changes in expectations based on variations in trust between many stakeholders. This book provides a collection of conceptual and empirical research papers which extend the understanding of the role of trust in

The globalisation of commerce and science means that new structures of governance are required to handle new and novel situations, such as across state and institutional boundaries. Sound governance, including elements that encourage foresight, is an important ingredient of managing global and local crisis situations. These crises are ever more apparent as a result of interdependence between consumer, firms and states across the world, especially with the ever increasing advent of instantaneous and low cost communication. This book examines the role of governance in local and multi-national...