Abstract Cross-border regions are the laboratories of European integration. Daily interactions across borders let citizens experience benefits Union (EU) internal market. Still, many border barriers continue to prevent individuals and organisations from exploiting full-potential a more integrated territory. Amongst these absence or inappropriate supply cross-border public transport services. In...

Emphasizing the importance of cross-border effectiveness in the contemporary globalized world, we propose that cultural intelligence—the leadership capability to manage effectively in culturally diverse settings—is a critical leadership competency for those with cross-border responsibilities. We tested this hypothesis with multisource data, including multiple intelligences, in a sample of 126 S...

CROSS-BORDER AND LOCAL COOPERATION ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE Cross-border and local cooperation can foster local learning and contribute positively to business performance and social cohesion. This paper considers firms’ economic motivation for both types of cooperation around the Irish border. This area, while inevitably impacted by civil unrest in Northern Ireland, sha...

In recent years, Chinese enterprises have conducted cross-border M&A more and more frequently. Cross-border M&A becomes an important way to achieve internationalization strategy for Chinese enterprises. In this paper, taking China’s A shares listed companies’ cross-border M&A in 2011 as samples, using the factor analysis method to conduct Principal Component Analysis of multiple financial indic...

The corporate sector all over the world is restructuring its operations through different types  of  consolidation  strategies  like  mergers  and  acquisitions  in  order  to  face challenges  posed  by  the  new  pattern  of  globalization,  which  has  led  to  the  greater integration of national and international markets.. The intensity of cross-border operations recorded an unprecedented ...