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  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

Keywords: by Valeria Giacomin
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

suggests that economic clusters—usually used to explain development in local economies—have had a much wider impact on world economics than generally recognized. Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Valeria Giacomin... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in extreme cases, imprisonment of their civilian employees during wartime. Harvard-Newcomen Fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

Keywords: by Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones, and Erica Salvaj
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914–1947)

Keywords: by Christina Lubinski, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer
  • January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
  • Technical Note

Deglobalization and Alternative Futures

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin
This note reviews the evidence that the world is undergoing an era of de-globalization. It shows that available metrics show some support for this theory. However there is also evidence that what is happening might be better described as regionalization. The nature of... View Details
Keywords: Global Business; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes; Populism; Geopolitics; Business History; Globalization; Change; Financial Crisis; China
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  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

forthcoming Management Science Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs By: Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati Abstract—Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
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  • September 2022
  • Article

Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality

By: Valeria Giacomin and Geoffrey Jones
This article discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States, and has... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Foundations; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Values and Beliefs; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets

By: Valeria Giacomin and G. Jones
This working paper discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Foundations; Philanthropy; Business Leaders; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Emerging Markets; Ethics; Values and Beliefs
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  • Nov 2016
  • Panel Discussion

Cluster Governance and Shifts in Cluster Boundaries: Plantation Economy in Late-colonial Malay(si)a

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • Mar 2017
  • Conference Presentation

The Role of Singapore in the Southeast Asian Plantation Cluster

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • Sep 2013
  • Panel Discussion

Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asian Commodity Markets: An Overview

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • 2017
  • Article

Negotiating Cluster Boundaries: Governance Shifts in the Palm Oil and Rubber Cluster in Malay(si)a (1945–1970 ca.)

By: Valeria Giacomin
Keywords: Cluster Governance; Institutional Change; Agency Houses; Palm Oil; Rubber; Malay(si)a; Decolonization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Southeast Asia
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  • Summer, 2018
  • Article

The Transformation of the Global Palm Oil Cluster: Dynamics of Cluster Competition between Africa and Southeast Asia (c. 1900–1970)

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • Mar 2017
  • Talk

Palm Oil and Cluster Competition

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • Jun 2015
  • Panel Discussion

The Evolution of the Palm Oil Industry in Malaysia and Indonesia in the 20th Century

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • Jun 2015
  • Conference Presentation

The Evolution of the Palm Oil Industry, 1900–1980s: Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

By: Valeria Giacomin
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  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2018
  • Book Review

Review of "Natural Resources and Economic Growth. Learning from History"

By: Valeria Giacomin
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