The last few decades have witnessed a proliferation of preferential trade agreements and regional trading blocks. Yet little research has been done to integrate trading block considerations into country attractiveness and foreign direct investment decisions. In this paper, we show how network analysis can be used to study, track, and forecast the structural changes among countries in regional t...

Exaggerated sexual dimorphism and symmetry in human faces have both been linked to potential 'good-gene' benefits and have also been found to influence the attractiveness of male faces. The current study explores how female self-rated attractiveness influences male face preference in females using faces manipulated with computer graphics. The study demonstrates that there is a relatively increa...

Let’s rethink. What is strategy? To many, strategy once meant selecting the most attractive product/ market segments and determining the appropriate level of investment in each. Many useful tools and concepts, developed largely during the 1970s, gave managers important insights into the comparative attractiveness of the business options they faced (Exhibit 1). These constructs, which characteri...

Organisms partition resources into life-history traits in order to maximise fitness over their expected lifespan. For the males of many species fitness is determined by qualitative and quantitative aspects of costly sexual signals: The notion that epigamic traits are costly forms the cornerstone of those theories that propose parasites drive sexual selection. Consequently studies examining this...