When populist leaders are voted into office, they often create unpredictable business environments which drive down investment by foreign companies, research from NEOMA Business School reveals. Alfonso Carballo Perez and Margherita Corina, Assistant Professors at NEOMA, find that foreign direct investment (FDI) can drop by over 10 percent following the election of a populist government. This is largely because populist leaders habitually attempt to disrupt the political and economic institutions in their country that guarantee the security of foreign investment, the researchers explain. However, countries with strong institutional frameworks can mitigate the negative effect of populist governments on FDI by…
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Remote workers’ feelings of isolation related to being away from the social environment of the office and digital technology contribute to them finding video conferences especially draining, according to recent research from NEOMA Business School. ‘Techno isolation’ is caused by digital tools making it harder to have spontaneous interactions with colleagues, share useful information, and find experts or pull groups together to resolve issues quickly, explains Dr. Agata Mirowska, Assistant Professor of Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour at NEOMA. Based on in-depth interviews with employees and human resource directors at French companies, Mirowska co-authored a study which finds this…
Siri Pettersen Strandenes has been awarded the prestigious Onassis prize of USD 200,000 for her work in shipping. A Professor emerita at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Strandenes is the second woman in history to be awarded the Onassis prize in shipping. The Onassis Prizes are awarded every three years by the Onassis Foundation, Bayes Business School, University of London and their Center for Shipping, Trade and Finance. Strandenes receives the prize this year for her extensive research on shipping and transport economics, including how environmental regulations have an impact on shipping. In 2002, Strandenes became NHH’s first female professor.…
A brand new bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics and Data Science has been launched at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. The second programme ever to be offered at the bachelor level by NHH, the course will provide economics students with the opportunity to specialise in technology, reflecting ongoing innovations in the world of business. “The special skills appropriated in this programme are in high demand in business life today, and our purpose is to give students a solid platform of competence to solve the challenges of today and in the future,” says Øystein Thøgersen, the Rector at NHH. The first class…
Higher levels of air pollution in a city increases rates of property crime, finds new research from Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business (NU GSB). David DeRemer, Assistant Professor from NU GSB, and Birzhan Batkeyev, Assistant Professor from Kazakh-British Technical University, investigated the impact of air pollution on crime rates. They used the location of Almaty in Kazakhstan as it relies heavily on coal heating in winter, and air pollution in the city regularly exceeds international safety standards. For seasonal air pollution in winter, Almaty ranks among the dirtiest 2% of cities worldwide. They collected data on air pollution, crime,…