Business Diplomacy
Interconnections - Perspectives on international management practice
Welcome to this edition of Interconnections. We hope our theme of international management practice provides interesting and stimulating reading and is successful in provoking thought and debate. As with the two earlier editions of Interconnections, our contributors are connecting the insights provided by academic theory into the challenges and issues facing international management practitioners, just as the experience of practitioners feeds back into academic theory.
Interconnections 3 (cover) to printers.pdf (Business - Government - NGO Relation: Their Impact on Global Economic Governance
Non state actors like Business Diplomats and Transnational Economic NGO Diplomats with their multitude of transborder alliances and pressure groups have added to the traditional domain of economic diplomacy a "supraterritorial relations" component and are thereby partially undermining sovereignty of states in conducting international economic relations. At the same time, faced with globalisation and competition for foreign direct investment as well as with the growing influence of international economic standard setting organisations (WTO, ITU,ILO etc), ...
Organizational Dynamics
Saner, R., & Yiu, L. 2005. Swiss Executives as Business Diplomats in the New Europe: Evidence from Swiss Pharmaceutical and Agro-Industrial Global Companies. Organizational Dynamics, 34 (3).
29th Meeting of Directors and Deans of Diplomatic Academies and Institutes of International Relations
18th September 2001, Vienna : 29th Meeting of Directors and Deans of Diplomatic Academies and Institutes of International Relations. A presentation by Professor Raymond Saner (Director, Centre for Socio-Economic Development, CSEND) together with Mr. Rodrick M. Wright (research Associate, CSEND) and Dr. Lichia Yiu ( President, CSEND) to be followed by round table and discussion.
Academy of Management Executive
Saner, R., Yiu, L., & Sondergaard, M. 2000. Business Diplomacy Management: A Core Competency for Global Companies. Academy of Management Executive, 14 (1): 80-92.