BRITISH BUSINESS ACADEMYRESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL · UNITED KINGDOMUNITED KINGDOM · SINGAPORE · UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
International economic systems and foreign trade
Analyse world economic architecture, cross-border business, economic diplomacy, international contracts, trade finance, logistics, compliance, investment and the transformation of global markets.
Research studies, papers and teaching materials related by their questions and methods. A cross-disciplinary connection does not imply that a study was conducted within every linked sector.
How can one enterprise operate responsibly within two different governance systems? This study compares Russian and Chinese institutional and legal arrangements and proposes an integrated framework for cross-border corporate decision-making, accountability and risk management.
Read the research overviewDigital platforms and AI systems are reshaping where legal authority is exercised. This paper explores conflicts of jurisdiction, extraterritorial rules and data governance, with particular attention to regulatory interactions involving Russia and China.
Read the research overviewA practical research pathway for experienced managers: frame an organisational problem, test assumptions against evidence, assess strategic options and turn the analysis into a coherent applied DBA dissertation.
Read the research overviewA research pathway connecting corporate governance with digital regulation. Two independent studies provide complementary perspectives on authority, accountability and institutional coordination across borders.
Read the research collectionA comparative legal dissertation connects corporate governance, capital markets, insolvency, compliance and financial technologies across national legal systems.
Read the research overviewA joint doctoral manuscript develops a governance perspective on the potential return of foreign companies to a market affected by sanctions and institutional uncertainty.
Read the research overviewA thematic collection of separately attributed DBA manuscripts examines business-process outsourcing in warehouse logistics and its implications for a geographically distributed organisation.
Read the research overviewPlanned studies from the Academy's 80-project agenda. Each detailed page contains a research problem, hypothesis, proposed methods, work packages and sources.
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How should executives choose strategy when competing trade and investment scenarios remain plausible?
When does joining a platform improve access but weaken bargaining power?
Under what conditions does supply-chain proximity create genuine strategic value?
How do resource constraints change location and growth decisions?
Can traceability systems verify labour and environmental claims rather than merely record documents?
Which legal design principles reconcile data obligations across incompatible jurisdictions?
Who bears responsibility when an AI agent enters contracts or changes records?
Which evidence rules support disputes involving automated order fulfilment?
Is extending legal personality to autonomous systems useful or conceptually misleading?
How can participating jurisdictions coordinate corridor governance without obscuring local accountability?
What actually breaks when a transnational data workflow confronts new transfer restrictions?
Which governance practices help foreign projects withstand policy discontinuities?
How should exporters choose routes when transit, insurance and geopolitical risks change simultaneously?
Do digital trade documents lower SME costs or merely shift complexity to new intermediaries?
How exposed are industrial value chains to highly concentrated material processing?
Which business services become more tradable as AI alters delivery and verification costs?
What happens when many critical operations rely on the same small set of providers?
How can physical hazard exposure propagate through credit, insurance and trade?
Through which channels does sovereign risk affect private investment decisions?
How can companies detect legal exposure without relying on static country risk lists?
Under what conditions does dynamic pricing improve matching or create exploitative outcomes?
How can researchers avoid mistaking executive narratives for verified organisational facts?
When do synthetic datasets support legitimate method development but fail substantive inference?
How should research teams handle consent and jurisdictional differences in data use?
Can qualitative scenarios be transparent enough for independent critique?
Which city investments protect vulnerable residents rather than raising property values alone?
Which signals anticipate service breakdown rather than merely describe it after the fact?
Which evaluation designs distinguish transformation effects from business-cycle noise?
How do cyber incidents and energy shortages interact across infrastructure?
Which feedback loops determine whether circularity reduces rather than relocates environmental burden?
How do climate events, shipping disruptions and household income interact to affect diet affordability?