Klaus Meyer
klausmeyer.bsky.social
Klaus Meyer
@klausmeyer.bsky.social

Professor of International Business, studying whatever topics capture my imagination. Based on London Ontario. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

Business 65%
Economics 23%
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Multinationals may have critical resources to help addressing #climatechange, but many lack incentives to deploy them. Discuss! Our analysis is in our new paper in #JIBS link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business - Journal of International Business Studies
Nation-states are designing their industrial policies increasingly to not only enhance national competitiveness, but also to simultaneously address “Green Challenges”, concerns about the natural envir...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Hard-hitting commentary by the @financialtimes.com "Canadian prime minister’s legacy as one-time UN envoy and clean power advocate undermined by energy shift"

www.ft.com/content/e5a0...
Mark Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders
Canadian prime minister’s legacy as one-time UN envoy and clean power advocate undermined by energy shift
www.ft.com

"resource-intensive AI platform bubble in which the US dominates cannot last. A market correction will shift attention to alternative models. This will in turn create new opportunities for Europe, which has strengths in applied AI... build the most trusted AI stack..." 
www.ft.com/content/0308...
Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts
A market correction will give the EU the chance to offer a trust-based alternative to American tech
www.ft.com

A year ago, I chose a quote from Mark Carney's book "Values" to motivate reflections on what 'global leadership' means in the global economy.

I wonder if the quote was well chosen, or if, in fact, he himself remembers what he has written ...
bookstore.emerald.com/advances-in-...

Now in print: our Academy of Management Perspectives paper on competition policy in the digital age.

We argue that the principles underlying EU competition policy are sound, but they need to evolve to capture the new sources of market power in the platform economy.
journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
Is Competition Policy Fit for the Digital Economy? A European Perspective | Academy of Management Perspectives
Competition policy establishes the institutional framework for competitive dynamics in market economies. Recently, the relevance and impact of traditional competition policy has been challenged by the...
journals.aom.org

Spy used to be in the pay of the other side, not your own.

#Gullaume #Witkoff
We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.

Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

For no particular reason, I am thinking of Munich today.

in 1938, the West celebrated the Munich Agreement as preventing a major war.

Historians regard it as a massive failure and "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_...
Munich Agreement - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

we can handle #snow.
we can handle slow clearance of #footpaths.
But snow being dumped from the road onto the footpath makes walking a nightmare!

Photo: #LDNONT Windermere at Richmond, Monday eve wet sludge, Tuesday morning frozen sludge

Interesting choice of picture to illustrate bilingualism in Canada...

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Join us on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 12:30pm as we welcome Prof. Klaus Meyer, Ivey Business School, Western University to our Research Seminar Series. Prof. Meyer will be speaking on, "National Socialists infiltrating a University: A Micro Historical Investigation." #westernu

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Canada not on track to meet 2030 climate targets, report finds
Canada not on track to meet 2030 climate targets, report finds
A new analysis says Canada is not on track to meet its 2030 or 2035 emissions targets.
www.ctvnews.ca

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“We have two purposes: the first is to see as many international residents as possible participate in the elections. The second is to show them that they are welcome,” @martinlidegaard.radikale.dk #dkpol cphpost.dk/2025-10-24/n...
Radikale Venstre will run its election campaign in 10 languages - The Copenhagen Post
Radikale Venstre will run its campaign across Denmark in 10 different languages to include internationals in the local elections taking place on November 18. The Danish Social Liberal Party (this is t...
cphpost.dk
Although many ecosystems can weather several years of moderate drought, consecutive years of extreme dryness push them past a tipping point, resulting in dramatic declines in plant growth, researchers report in Science. https://scim.ag/4ogN9I8
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
scim.ag

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‘Motherhood penalty’: Working moms are paying a steep price amid return-to-office orders
‘Motherhood penalty’: Working moms are paying a steep price amid return-to-office orders
As companies across Canada enforce return-to-office (RTO) orders for employees, some wonder how to balance their responsibilities, especially mothers who juggle caregiving with their full-time careers.
www.ctvnews.ca

PRO: It saves money and keeps mail affordable. It’s a healthy little walk (But: why do people use a car for less than 100 meters?)

CON: Not convenient for those with mobility impairments, especially in winter. (But: if the box is on the opposite side of the footpath, walking isn’t safe either.)

My daughter: “If this were a movie, something would happen at this mailbox!”

No, #CanadaPost is on strike; nothing happens here today. An opportunity to think about the pros and cons of street mailboxes instead of home delivery.

#LDNONT

New sign: the expensive renovation of @westernu.ca Chemistry Parking lot (that removed green strips and 5 trees) REDUCED the number of parking spaces by 5% to accommodate larger cars. Why do people need a pickup truck to commute to work?

No wonder we need to put more green spaces under concrete

Update: the trees visible at the left and right edges of the right-hand picture have been felled this morning.

@iveybusiness.bsky.social

Yes, @westernu.ca, we are #AllinWesternU....

why is it today that the Economist publishes this story, which makes no reference to any contemporary events?
Political jokes are the ideal weapon of the weak. Even without the internet, they travel at warp speed, traversing a country before the censors have their pens out
First, they come for the comedians
But, try as strongmen might, the jokes always get away
econ.st

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Political jokes are the ideal weapon of the weak. Even without the internet, they travel at warp speed, traversing a country before the censors have their pens out
First, they come for the comedians
But, try as strongmen might, the jokes always get away
econ.st

It is painful to see, but not surprising.

The MAGA movement shares many traits and tactics with the Hitler movement, at least for 1928 to 1937. This includes virulent anti-immigration rhetoric (later action) and defamation, persecution (and later murder) of the most significant ethnic minority.

It seems I am not the only one who sees fewer #Monarch on my walks around town this year.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Co-ordinated plan needed to save ‘alarmingly low’ monarch butterfly population: study
Co-ordinated plan needed to save ‘alarmingly low’ monarch butterfly population: study
Researchers are urging Canada, United States and Mexico to take immediate action to save the monarch butterfly as the migratory insect faces a growing risk of extinction amid habitat loss.
www.ctvnews.ca

A strategy of extending the car-based infrastructure to bring even more cars to campus, reduces safety for walkers and cyclists, and pushes nature away from people is harmful for sustainable development and the mental health of students, staff, and faculty.

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Larry Cornies’ editorial hits right on the mark. London needs a better balance between development approvals and our mobility infrastructure. lfpress.com/opinion/colu...
Yet this council is full-speed-ahead on approvals without adequate regard for traffic implications. It’s simply not sustainable.
Cornies: Traffic could be London's undoing
In the face of growth estimates, the city's planned transportation infrastructure looks inadequate
lfpress.com

As I am nearing completion of my book "From Democracy to Fascism", I struggle how to communicate in a single Chapter the events in Germany in Jan to Apr @1933.

How can words express how quickly cruelty won out, people discarded their values, and opposition voices were silenced by intimidation?

At @iveybusiness.bsky.social and @westernu.ca, we enjoy the benefits of a biodiverse natural environment.

With this rich neighborhood comes responsibility. Let us protect it!

PHOTO: view of the Ivey building from the West.

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