ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows several changes that are not only affecting centralised economies – recognised as in transition – to which comparable entities can be associated, but, rather, they concern all economies, emerging and mature. It explains the nature and scope of the transformations that affect both the logic and the framework of international trade and investment flows. The contributions drive the actors, in their diversity, to find new ways to mobilise their resources and skills, such as to consider new ways of interacting with the different stakeholders they interact with. Referring to the neo-institutional framework, the mutations and new relationships are studied at the field level, based on mostly inductive or abductive inferences. As a consequence, the new practices must, whatever their nature, involve their available tangible and intangible resources and seek new ones by activating and developing their networks.
