While many environmental issues can be delegated to specialists and operational managers, there are five key strategic...

Transparency International annually publishes its Corruption Perception Index. It includes a range of countries, from the least corrupt to those with the most widespread corruption. There are too many countries with a low grade. Why is it that in some countries not only the perception, but actual cases are on the rise? I believe there…

European banks have just made it through the latest round of stress tests. But now what? Will lending make a come back? Looking toward the future, do these tests really guarantee a clean bill of health? These are just a few of the questions that many people are asking themselves. But really, one question sums…

Different countries offer different travel and living conditions. This has an effect – identified as the "hassle factor" by professors Andreas Schotter and Paul Beamish from the Ivey Business School in Canada – on companies' decisions to locate their operations in a particular country. Not all countries are the same in Africa, and the hassle…