The financial inclusion assemblage: subjects, technics, rationalities

This article introduces financial inclusion as a global assemblage of subjects, technics, and rationalities that aim to develop poor-appropriate financial products and services. Microfinance forms the foundation, but also the boundary of the assemblage, which is premised on the assumption that the 2.7 billion poor people in the world who do not currently have access to formal loan, savings, and insurance products are in need of such offerings. The work of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, with its emphasis on ethnographic research into culturally grounded monetary practices and logics, is presented as an alternative to the quantitative, economic, and financial logics that drive the assemblage. © The Author(s) 2011

CSR Management strategies stakeholder engagement and MNE subsidiaries efforts to foster sustainable development

Shows both the diversity and the coherence in the way social responsibility, corporate responsibility, sustainability, and governance inter-relate Offers a truly global perspective on the integrated concepts of sustainability, governance and social responsibility Links the theory of corporate social responsibility back to the domain of real-world business situation

Competitive interactions: the international investment patterns of Japanese automobile manufacturers

Analyzing the timing, patterns, and competitive interactions of foreign direct investments (FDIs), we find evidence that Japanese automobile manufacturers compete selectively with their domestic rivals. While some firms appear to follow rivals’ investments, they also steer away from markets with incumbent Japanese competitors. Competing in some key markets, these firms also avoid unnecessary competition in other markets. This finding provides evidence that the “bandwagon effect” is not universal for FDI within oligopolistic industries. Journal of International Business Studies (2008) 39, 864–879. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400391

Another day, another dollar: enterprise resilience under terrorism in developing countries

This study extends the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries by offering a two-stage explanation for the paradoxical observation that enterprise activities often flourish under extreme adversity. Our findings complement the base-of-pyramid and peace-through-commerce attention to the growing role of business in international development by fleshing out the functions of enterprise resilience under terrorism. We first explain how terrorism conditions (outbreak, escalation, and reduction) may create psychological incentives for enterprise resilience; then we show that, controlling for ex ante terrorism conditions, enterprise resilience yields more favorable economic payoffs at higher levels of terrorism, especially for informal entrepreneurs