In this article, we advance a framework that highlights the relational nature of rivalry emergence and its ongoing manifestations, before illustrating in practice through an analysis between Serbs Albanians over issue Kosovo. We argue locus lies inherently social character human desire destructive reciprocity elicited by mimetic behaviour. The manner which rivals portray their plight, legitimis...

Despite their importance in public discourse, numbers in the range of one million to one trillion are notoriously difficult to understand. We examine magnitude estimation by adult Americans when placing large numbers on a number line and when qualitatively evaluating descriptions of imaginary geopolitical scenarios. Common conceptions of the number line suggest a logarithmic compression of the ...

The concept of communicability is introduced for complex socioeconomic networks. The communicability function expresses how an impact propagates from one place to another in the network. This function is used to define unambiguously the concept of socio-economic community. The concept of temperature in complex socio-economic networks is also introduced as a way of accounting for the external st...

Knowledge spillovers—non-rival information goods with the potential to be adapted by neighboring producers—have been the focus of a large body of empirical and theoretical economic research. However, the majority of existing work only examines two industries (academic and patent citation networks), and only focuses on estimating the effects of individual geopolitical units on knowledge spillove...

Mobile telecommunication firms have increasingly found Sub-Saharan Africa to be a favorable location for business and investment. We explore the competitive actions responses of multinational MNOs in three leading sub-regional markets: Kenya, Nigeria, South based on conventional content analysis online-sourced data from time first major move was made each market until 2015. Our findings suggest...