Louise Curran
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Curran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Curran |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | TBS Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9326-052X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rule-of-law backsliding, sustainability rollback and international business in the Trump era
Purpose This viewpoint paper examines how the return of the Trump administration is reshaping international business, sustainability governance and global institutions. Organised as a structured bricolage of three interrelated viewpoints, it analyses how rule-of-law backsliding, sustainability rollback and business-and-human-rights reconfiguration challenge responsible business and sustainable development frameworks. Design/methodology/approach T…
Contestation and Compromise in Shaping the European Union's Corporate Sustainability due Diligence Directive
This paper explores the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) in the context of ongoing debates on private and public governance of global value chains (GVCs). Conceptually, it draws on neo‐Gramscian perspectives to analyze how contestation and compromise between distinct stakeholders and dynamics of hegemony and counter‐hegemony shaped the CS3D. It draws on secondary lobbying databases and primary interviews wi…
The future of global production networks post Trump II
Recent changes in trade policy, especially by the Trump II administration, will have major impacts on global production networks (GPNs). While work in this journal and elsewhere has provided many useful insights into the dynamics of GPNs, recent novel policy interventions have changed the context significantly. Key effects of note are the undermining of faith in international agreements; the expansion of ‘strategic’ sectors; and the side effects …
Global production networks and circular economy territorialization
This article examines how different configurations of regional integration into global production networks (GPNs) shape the capacity of local and regional institutions to support circular economy (CE) initiatives. We present a theoretical framework that connects GPN theory with regional processes and CE territorialization. This framework focuses on how key GPN characteristics—cost–capability ratios, governance structures, and product materialitie…
Daniel Defoe in Context
The EU 's Covid‐19 policy response and the restructuring of global value chains
The COVID pandemic highlighted the interdependence which the expansion of global value chains (GVCs) has fostered across the world economy. Perceived fragilities in the supply of key products led to a growing global debate about the wisdom of high levels of reliance on overseas sources, with several commentators suggesting that the pandemic will foster ‘de‐globalisation’. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the economic disruption which accompanied …
The trade policy response to Covid-19 and its implications for international business
Purpose This paper aims to explore trade policy measures taken in response to COVID-19 and analyses in detail their extent and nature. It assesses their compatibility with World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements: specifically, whether they were necessary and justifiable efforts to protect the security and health of populations and asks how this widespread recourse to trade barriers may impact on international business? Design/methodology/approa…
The Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is organized as a viewpoint. First, it provides an overview of Covid-19 research in business and management and IB in particular. Second, it introduces a societally engaged IB perspective, around poverty and human rights as well as trade. Findings The paper o…
Building on open economy politics to understand the stalled EU–India trade negotiations
Global trade governance is increasingly characterized by a growing fragility in multilateral institutions and a preference for bilateral negotiations. The literature on such negotiations focuses primarily on successful agreements. Academic research on unsuccessful or stalled bilateral talks is limited, although better understanding of such outcomes may provide lessons for future negotiations. This article contributes to such understanding by prop…
Self-portraiture
This chapter explores the image of women looking at themselves and being observed by others in a significant body of satirical writing by women writers in the 1730s, 1740s, and 1750s. Though Jonathan Swift famously observed that satire ‘is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body’s Face but their Own’, these women did the opposite, often unflinchingly so, producing humane reflections on their personal appearances, and o…
The influence of tariff regimes on global production networks (GPNs)
Despite the recognition that trade policy—in particular, tariff regimes and rules of origin—can affect the geography of production, much GPN analyses pay scant attention to the tariff context of the sector studied. This paper proposes an analytical framework to more effectively integrate these regimes into applied GPN research. We test the framework, drawing on analysis of exports to the EU market in four sectors: textiles and apparel, floricultu…
Smoke screen? The globalization of production, transnational lobbying and the international political economy of plain tobacco packaging
In 2012 Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain tobacco packaging in an effort to reduce tobacco consumption. This move was vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry, which challenged it on several levels: nationally, bilaterally and multilaterally at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The political behavior of the tobacco companies in this case is puzzling both in terms of scale, operating at multiple levels at the s…
Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Milton's place in the British poetic canon was both contested and established. The first scholarly editions of Paradise Lost were printed, and the full range of his verse—both in form and content—was frequently imitated as well as discussed. Modern critics, such as Dustin Griffin (1986), have explored how Milton's poetry influenced writers in the succeeding century, yet its appropriation in miscellaneous…
Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing
Shifting trade preferences and value chain impacts in the Bangladesh textiles and garment industry
This article contributes to the debate on the key factors shaping global value chains in the garment sector by focusing on one aspect: namely trade regimes and their related ‘rules of origin’. We study Bangladesh, the leading least developed global garment manufacturer, to assess how changes in the European Union’s regime for preferential market access affect the trade profile, and upgrading prospects, of Bangladesh’s garment industry. We find th…
The impact of trade policy on global production networks
This paper seeks to shed light on the interactions between public institutions and global production networks (GPNs) through a case study of the 2012–2013 European Union anti-dumping investigation on Chinese solar panels. Drawing on trade data and interviews, as well as press reports and position papers, I analyze the facts of the case and the debate around it and explore the impacts on the geography of production. The case draws attention to two…
Woman to Woman
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics." English Studies, 94(6), pp. 737–738
Does the home‐region bias of international business vary by industry
Purpose – The fact that many international companies remain strongly orientated towards their home region has been highlighted in the work of several international business scholars. This work has given rise to the concept of “the liability of inter‐regional foreignness”. This paper aims to argue that the data that have so far been exploited in this debate are too aggregated and that more attention needs to be paid to differences between differen…
Pope and Swift
Into Whosoever Hands Our Letters Might Fall”
Research Article| January 01 2011 “Into Whosoever Hands Our Letters Might Fall”: Samuel Richardson's Correspondence and “the Public Eye” Louise Curran Louise Curran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 51–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-027 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Reason and Religion in Clarissa
Reason and Religion in Clarissa : Samuel Richardson and “The Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton” E. DEREK TAYLOR Farnham, Ashgate Publishing, 2009 vi + 171 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7546-6531-1, £55.00 hb As an
Clarissa's Painter
The impact of trade policy on global production networks
This paper seeks to shed light on the interactions between public institutions and global production networks (GPNs) through a case study of the 2012–2013 European Union anti-dumping investigation on Chinese solar panels. Drawing on trade data and interviews, as well as press reports and position papers, I analyze the facts of the case and the debate around it and explore the impacts on the geography of production. The case draws attention to two…
The influence of tariff regimes on global production networks (GPNs)
Despite the recognition that trade policy—in particular, tariff regimes and rules of origin—can affect the geography of production, much GPN analyses pay scant attention to the tariff context of the sector studied. This paper proposes an analytical framework to more effectively integrate these regimes into applied GPN research. We test the framework, drawing on analysis of exports to the EU market in four sectors: textiles and apparel, floricultu…
Global production networks and circular economy territorialization
This article examines how different configurations of regional integration into global production networks (GPNs) shape the capacity of local and regional institutions to support circular economy (CE) initiatives. We present a theoretical framework that connects GPN theory with regional processes and CE territorialization. This framework focuses on how key GPN characteristics—cost–capability ratios, governance structures, and product materialitie…
Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Milton's place in the British poetic canon was both contested and established. The first scholarly editions of Paradise Lost were printed, and the full range of his verse—both in form and content—was frequently imitated as well as discussed. Modern critics, such as Dustin Griffin (1986), have explored how Milton's poetry influenced writers in the succeeding century, yet its appropriation in miscellaneous…
Shifting trade preferences and value chain impacts in the Bangladesh textiles and garment industry
This article contributes to the debate on the key factors shaping global value chains in the garment sector by focusing on one aspect: namely trade regimes and their related ‘rules of origin’. We study Bangladesh, the leading least developed global garment manufacturer, to assess how changes in the European Union’s regime for preferential market access affect the trade profile, and upgrading prospects, of Bangladesh’s garment industry. We find th…
Woman to Woman
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics." English Studies, 94(6), pp. 737–738
Into Whosoever Hands Our Letters Might Fall”
Research Article| January 01 2011 “Into Whosoever Hands Our Letters Might Fall”: Samuel Richardson's Correspondence and “the Public Eye” Louise Curran Louise Curran Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 51–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-027 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Reason and Religion in Clarissa
Reason and Religion in Clarissa : Samuel Richardson and “The Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton” E. DEREK TAYLOR Farnham, Ashgate Publishing, 2009 vi + 171 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7546-6531-1, £55.00 hb As an
Clarissa's Painter
Does the home‐region bias of international business vary by industry
Purpose – The fact that many international companies remain strongly orientated towards their home region has been highlighted in the work of several international business scholars. This work has given rise to the concept of “the liability of inter‐regional foreignness”. This paper aims to argue that the data that have so far been exploited in this debate are too aggregated and that more attention needs to be paid to differences between differen…
Pope and Swift
Woman to Woman
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics." English Studies, 94(6), pp. 737–738
Shifting trade preferences and value chain impacts in the Bangladesh textiles and garment industry
This article contributes to the debate on the key factors shaping global value chains in the garment sector by focusing on one aspect: namely trade regimes and their related ‘rules of origin’. We study Bangladesh, the leading least developed global garment manufacturer, to assess how changes in the European Union’s regime for preferential market access affect the trade profile, and upgrading prospects, of Bangladesh’s garment industry. We find th…
The impact of trade policy on global production networks
This paper seeks to shed light on the interactions between public institutions and global production networks (GPNs) through a case study of the 2012–2013 European Union anti-dumping investigation on Chinese solar panels. Drawing on trade data and interviews, as well as press reports and position papers, I analyze the facts of the case and the debate around it and explore the impacts on the geography of production. The case draws attention to two…
Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing
Smoke screen? The globalization of production, transnational lobbying and the international political economy of plain tobacco packaging
In 2012 Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain tobacco packaging in an effort to reduce tobacco consumption. This move was vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry, which challenged it on several levels: nationally, bilaterally and multilaterally at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The political behavior of the tobacco companies in this case is puzzling both in terms of scale, operating at multiple levels at the s…
Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Milton's place in the British poetic canon was both contested and established. The first scholarly editions of Paradise Lost were printed, and the full range of his verse—both in form and content—was frequently imitated as well as discussed. Modern critics, such as Dustin Griffin (1986), have explored how Milton's poetry influenced writers in the succeeding century, yet its appropriation in miscellaneous…
The influence of tariff regimes on global production networks (GPNs)
Despite the recognition that trade policy—in particular, tariff regimes and rules of origin—can affect the geography of production, much GPN analyses pay scant attention to the tariff context of the sector studied. This paper proposes an analytical framework to more effectively integrate these regimes into applied GPN research. We test the framework, drawing on analysis of exports to the EU market in four sectors: textiles and apparel, floricultu…
Self-portraiture
This chapter explores the image of women looking at themselves and being observed by others in a significant body of satirical writing by women writers in the 1730s, 1740s, and 1750s. Though Jonathan Swift famously observed that satire ‘is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body’s Face but their Own’, these women did the opposite, often unflinchingly so, producing humane reflections on their personal appearances, and o…
The trade policy response to Covid-19 and its implications for international business
Purpose This paper aims to explore trade policy measures taken in response to COVID-19 and analyses in detail their extent and nature. It assesses their compatibility with World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements: specifically, whether they were necessary and justifiable efforts to protect the security and health of populations and asks how this widespread recourse to trade barriers may impact on international business? Design/methodology/approa…
The Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is organized as a viewpoint. First, it provides an overview of Covid-19 research in business and management and IB in particular. Second, it introduces a societally engaged IB perspective, around poverty and human rights as well as trade. Findings The paper o…
Building on open economy politics to understand the stalled EU–India trade negotiations
Global trade governance is increasingly characterized by a growing fragility in multilateral institutions and a preference for bilateral negotiations. The literature on such negotiations focuses primarily on successful agreements. Academic research on unsuccessful or stalled bilateral talks is limited, although better understanding of such outcomes may provide lessons for future negotiations. This article contributes to such understanding by prop…
Daniel Defoe in Context
The EU 's Covid‐19 policy response and the restructuring of global value chains
The COVID pandemic highlighted the interdependence which the expansion of global value chains (GVCs) has fostered across the world economy. Perceived fragilities in the supply of key products led to a growing global debate about the wisdom of high levels of reliance on overseas sources, with several commentators suggesting that the pandemic will foster ‘de‐globalisation’. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the economic disruption which accompanied …
The future of global production networks post Trump II
Recent changes in trade policy, especially by the Trump II administration, will have major impacts on global production networks (GPNs). While work in this journal and elsewhere has provided many useful insights into the dynamics of GPNs, recent novel policy interventions have changed the context significantly. Key effects of note are the undermining of faith in international agreements; the expansion of ‘strategic’ sectors; and the side effects …
Global production networks and circular economy territorialization
This article examines how different configurations of regional integration into global production networks (GPNs) shape the capacity of local and regional institutions to support circular economy (CE) initiatives. We present a theoretical framework that connects GPN theory with regional processes and CE territorialization. This framework focuses on how key GPN characteristics—cost–capability ratios, governance structures, and product materialitie…
Rule-of-law backsliding, sustainability rollback and international business in the Trump era
Purpose This viewpoint paper examines how the return of the Trump administration is reshaping international business, sustainability governance and global institutions. Organised as a structured bricolage of three interrelated viewpoints, it analyses how rule-of-law backsliding, sustainability rollback and business-and-human-rights reconfiguration challenge responsible business and sustainable development frameworks. Design/methodology/approach T…
Contestation and Compromise in Shaping the European Union's Corporate Sustainability due Diligence Directive
This paper explores the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) in the context of ongoing debates on private and public governance of global value chains (GVCs). Conceptually, it draws on neo‐Gramscian perspectives to analyze how contestation and compromise between distinct stakeholders and dynamics of hegemony and counter‐hegemony shaped the CS3D. It draws on secondary lobbying databases and primary interviews wi…
Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Global trade and economics (8 works) · International trade (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Corporate governance (5 works)