The article overviews cross-border cooperation across Polish borders in the last three decades. Deeply rooted conflictive border legacies and shifts first half of twentieth century, they quickly became locations symbolic reconciliation with neighbours functional aiming at economic development. non-linear character these processes resulted from changing political environment region.

This paper explores the impact of cross-border M&As on host economies of Korea ; China; and Hong Kong, China. For an intensive analytical research on this topic, this paper presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the various impacts of cross-border M&As on the competitiveness of the host economies. We apply this framework to the data from five outstanding and considerable cases of each...

It is the new period of rapid development of cross-border e-commerce, which could make distance shorten between product and market in time and space. It will be the main mean of promoting trade a facilitation, upgrade trade development and promote the effective implementation of national policy. There is a new development of cross-border e-commerce and it also spawned a new ecological model. It...

Fair trade is a means of governing South-North supply chains to increase the benefits of international trade integration for poor southern producers of agricultural and handicraft goods. Although the approach itself is arguably innovative in comparison with commercially orientated supply chains, many consider that its formalisation within third-party, Fairtrade International certification, has ...

As genetic testing (GT) is now available for many rare disorders, no GT laboratory can be expert enough to provide every test. Samples are therefore sent between laboratories for testing, often across borders. Such cross-border testing raises some questions: The 2003 OECD survey of 827 molecular GT laboratories in 18 countries found that 64% of laboratories had received samples from abroad. Thi...