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The rise of Korean leadership : emerging powers and liberal international order
\"South Korea has emerged as a new middle power playing a significant role in a wide range of important global issue areas and supporting liberal international order with its leadership diplomacy. The growing role played by new powers like Korea calls into question the prevailing view that global governance is polarized with emerging powers challenging the liberal international order established by the United States and its European allies after World War II. As the case of Korea shows, large developing countries like the BRICS are not the only emerging powers active in global governance. Newly developed or high income developing countries like South Korea, Turkey and Mexico are also active emerging powers, taking new initiatives, setting agendas and mediating conflicts between rival groups on the global stage. Because these high income developing countries have advanced under and benefited from the liberal international order, they see a great stake in its stability and show a willingness to protect it. \"Liberal internationalist\" developing countries are joining the expanding list of middle powers who contribute to the maintenance of liberal international order as niche players and system supporters\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Design-Led New Product Development in Chinese SMEs
Design-oriented new product development (NPD) has been recognised as beneficial for company growth; however, there is limited reporting on the understanding of its effectiveness in a real-world context especially in Chinese SMEs. This paper aims to explore issues related to the implementation of designer-led NPD in a Chinese SME. An experiment was setup whereby two NPD teams were assigned to conduct NPD concurrently. One of the teams carried out the conventional NPD process model used by the company, and the other adopted the designer-led NPD process model. A metrics tool was built in the form of questionnaires for obtaining the views of the participants. Results indicate that design-led NPD is perceived to be more inclusive of team members’ views, even if the effectiveness of designer-led NPD in Chinese SMEs requires further investigations.
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Ouverture de “New Perspectives in Global Competition”
The decline of international competitiveness of European companies began in the early 1970s and since then there has been no reversal of the trend. In recent years, also due to the growing concentration of investments caused by the 'Oversize Economy' (Brondoni, 2019), the degree of technological advancement of Europe, the United States and China has lost all relationship with the size of their respective Gross National Product. In fact, investments in technology grow when the resources of a large developed or developing market are coordinated by a system of large corporations and finalized by a policy of applied research put at the service of a design capable of mobilizing the resources of an entire country.
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Empowering a Knowledge-Based Economy: An Assessment of the Influence on Economic Development
Scientific research is one of the most important variables affecting the economic growth and development of a country, being the engine of innovation. In this regard, the relevance of various assessments of scientific interaction with economic development is determined by modern requirements. The study aims to investigate the impact of scientific research on economic development in Albania. The assessment was based on the analysis of secondary data from organisations such as Eurostat and INSTAT, which were further considered within the framework of an econometric model in EViews. The study highlighted the role of stimulating economic development in Albania in various sectors. The study demonstrated that scientific research is highly significant for the economic growth of a country. Based on the statistical data during the period from 1996 to 2022, a regression model was employed to simulate the relationship between independent variables (scientific labour force, public research and development (R&D) expenditures, and patents) and the dependent variable (gross domestic product (GDP) growth). The study shows that these factors have a positive impact on the gross domestic product per capita in Albania. The empirical research results revealed that the scientific labour force, public R&D expenditures and patents have a positive and significant impact on GDP growth in Albania. Based on the information received, recommendations were made to improve the quality of scientific research in the country. The result of this study could provide valuable information to policymakers and serve as scientific evidence for future studies.
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Embracing a rational approach toward “the ranking rush”
This research briefly examines the growing influence of major global university rankings, such as QS, THE, ARWU, and U.S. News & World Report, on institutional strategies. Using document analysis and a narrative review, this study investigates the \"ranking-mania\" driven by perceived links between league tables and institutional reputation. Comparative mapping of ranking methodologies shows that reputation and research indicators currently dominate the landscape, whereas indicators of student outcomes remain minimal. These findings suggest that current metrics often fail to reflect the diverse needs of domestic and international students. Consequently, the study recommends that institutions move beyond the \"ranking rush\" to adopt a rational, mission-centric strategy that prioritizes substantive institutional improvements over the pursuit of fluctuating external metrics.
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Brexit and the War for Talents
Brexit raised the question of whether the UK will continue to attract internationals. Here the focus is on academic staff - a critical component of the 'War for Talents' discourse and current geopolitics in the field. Despite a clear trend of loss of EU internationals, at least among western EU countries, the UK more than compensates for this fall with extra-EU internationals. This is even more evident among younger generations. However, the most notable effect, also having a long-term impact as far as it deals with newer generations, is about average quality of such talents (in this study: salaries at parity of age). Brexit is reducing the capacity to attract/retain the best academics. This happens especially among younger cohorts, and if they come from countries that perform better in GDP per capita, R&D investment, but also national ranking in tolerance and creative class scores. Overall, Brexit is detrimental to the UK in relation to attraction of talents, cutting through a long-term pattern of success. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
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CSR adoption strategies of Chinese state oil companies: effects of global competition and cooperation
Purpose
– The purposes of this paper are: to examine the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies related to environment protection by Chinese state oil companies; and to analyze the effects of global competitions and cooperation on the CSR adoption processes.
Design/methodology/approach
– Based on a content analysis of 58 corporate reports and three interviews with senior managers from Chinese-Western joint ventures, the authors analyzed the environmentally-related CSR adoption strategies and the effects of global competition and cooperation in Chinese state oil companies.
Findings
– The findings suggest that more cooperative CSR strategies related to environment protection have been adopted by Chinese state oil companies in the past decade. The main reasons are: the force of international and local environmental regulations; the pressures from partners of western oil companies and the desire to increase the global competitive advantage of the Chinese state oil companies.
Research limitations/implications
– Given that this study is based only on the analysis of corporate reports and three interviews, the authors' conclusions should be considered preliminary and inconclusive. Future studies should be done to collect more primary data by interviewing and surveying by questionnaire a significant number of managers from these companies to validate these conclusions.
Originality/value
– This paper highlights the adoption of CSR strategies by three Chinese state oil companies and the effects of global operations which have been little studied academically so far.
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Sustaining the ecosystem of higher education in China: Perspectives from young researchers
The sustainable development of higher education in China has been a key priority for the national, social, economic and political development. Responding to the severe competition in various university ranking systems, most universities in China have set aims to enhance their sustainability in research and publication. There has been a prominent conflict that young scholars are expected to be productive, with publications in academic journals, competitive in receiving national and municipal research grants, and prestigious in the national and international arenas, or they will be terminated by the ‘six-year-up-or-out’ policy. Recent reform in higher education that calls for a sustainable development for young researchers is a strategy to revert the side effects from global university ranking systems by nurturing young researchers in their early academic lives, enhancing their productivity in research and publication internationally, and enhancing their global competitiveness without harming sustainability in academic development. This research explored (i) the difficulties that most young scholars face in sustainable academic research development, (ii) the factors that enhance or inhibit research productivity of young researchers, and (iii) the work lives in their early-career development in China. A qualitative study was conducted with data obtained from semistructured, in-depth interviews of 24 young university researchers from three provinces and a municipality in China. Findings show that factors that relate to sustainable research productivity are individual attributes, discipline attributes, institutional attributes and policy attributes. Lastly, suggestions for policy making in higher education and for improving sustainable research development of young researchers in China are provided and implications for future research are discussed.
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Ouverture de ‘New Horizons in Global Management’
The Russian-Ukrainian War introduced new elements into the strategic assessments of large global corporations, changing competitive horizons and developing new models of competition. The impact of the recent BRICS expansion on the global corporations management and on the growth of sustainability goals reflects a growing global new competitive landscape that places global corporations in a delicate position as a possible counterweight to the EU, to the U.S and to the Asian World.
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Global competition, coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in higher education
While scholars have analyzed global higher education (HE) competition, they have largely failed to address how global spaces of equivalence are tied both to coloniality and to competition. Using the OECD's International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) as a case study and drawing on concepts from coloniality including Fanon's zone of being/non-being and Mignolo's geopolitics of knowledge, we reveal how coloniality underpins the desire for global spaces of equivalence through: the desire for opportunity and belonging; and the desire for recognition and pride. We illuminate how the nature of global competition is not simply tied to market-based economic or political rationalities, but also operates under psychosocial dimensions interlinked with belonging in the international community. We argue that AHELO represents the mediation and internalization of a HE competition focused on teaching and learning, which reproduces coloniality by valuing characteristics of the enterprising, globally competitive institution.
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