Europeanisation and Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Domestic Political Economies in the ‘Southern Periphery’

FDI entry strategies and the impacts of economic freedom distance: Evidence from Nordic FDIs in transitional periphery of CIS and SEE

“…These study findings have important implications for both theory and practice. The theoretical contribution of our study stems from the application and empirical testing of the Totev, 2002;Barry, 2004;Galego et al, 2004;Balkir et al, 2013) Moreover, it is also important for the managers to consider the within-sample variance in the transition periphery economies because a large economy like the Russian Federation has certain attributes that differ from those in small host economies like Serbia for example. As transitional periphery economies represent different and relatively unstable institutional environments compared to the home countries of Nordic MNEs, these differences may result in high uncertainty in decision making for managers.…”

“…The term transitional periphery of the EU was coined by sociologists and economists a decade ago (see e.g. Totev, 2002;Barry, 2004;Galego et al, 2004;Balkir et al, 2013) and includes countries located in territories bordering core EU economies in the SEE region as well as ex-soviet states that are members of CIS (Demekas et al, 2005(Demekas et al, , 2007Aslund, 2012;Uvalic, 2013, 2014). These economies are generally characterized by significant challenges for investing foreign MNEs, such as macroeconomics and political instability, problematic legal systems, official corruption, crime and mafia, lack of information about market conditions and uncertainty, and lack of a business culture by local employees and local partners (Demekas et al, 2005(Demekas et al, , 2007Bitzenis, 2009;Uvalic, 2013, 2014).…”

Europeanisation of Employment Policy in Turkey: Tracing Domestic Change through Institutions, Ideas and Interests

“…In detecting the degree of change, it relies on the categories of 'transformation', 'accommodation', 'absorption', 'inertia' and 'retrenchment' proposed by Balkir, Bolukbasi and Ertugal (2013). Our conceptualisation and operationalisation of change rest upon comparing the degree of change across different components of employment policy in Turkey.…”

Europeanisation in the ‘Southern Periphery’: Comparative Research Findings on the EU's Impact on Domestic Political Economies

“…Keywords: Europeanisation; Political Economy; Ideas; Interests; Institutions; Southern Europe This article presents comparative findings based on the six case studies on Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Turkey included in this volume titled ''Europeanisation and the Southern Periphery' in Retrospect: Another Decade of Dynamism, Asymmetry, and Fragmentation?' through an analytical framework drawn up on the basis of the research questions set out by Balkir, Bolukbasi and Ertugal (2013). Its goal is to show how the contributions in this volume aim to follow the most recent research design focusing on f as represented in the equation Y ¼ f (X), where X represents the EU input and Y represents domestic change (Radaelli 2012).…”

“…Readers will notice that the three research stages that the contributors of this volume follow are, in fact, structured so as to answer the research questions set out in the introductory article (Balkir, Bolukbasi & Ertugal 2013). The rest of this article is organised as follows.…”