Do Governments Favor Foreign Firms over Domestic Ones?
The long-held belief that governments favor their own country’s firms over outsiders may not hold up in today’s global business environment. Indeed, governments may actually favor foreign companies, particularly over politically weak domestic firms, according to preliminary research presented by Yasheng Huang, professor of international management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, during a Wharton conference on Management Strategy and the Business Environment. In general, … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Yasheng Huang | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: International
Japanese fight for their IP rights
No longer content to be subservient and stiffed, the country’s innovators are rising up, and cashing in, with a string of ground-breaking lawsuits.
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: International – Asia, Legal
How Mondavi is Growing Around the World
Joint ventures can hold the key to expanding globally, introducing new product lines and leveraging brand capital. But it takes good relationships – and patience.
Content: Case Study | Author: Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Industry Specific, International | Industry: Wine / Spirits | Company: Robert Mondavi Winery
The View from the East
India’s upstart IT-services firms face their own challenges from their giant rivals in the West.
Content: Article | Author: Justin Wood | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: International – Asia, Outsourcing / BPO
Cracking China
In a new book, Procter & Gamble tells how it brought consumerism to an untapped market.
Content: Article | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: International – China
Online Gaming Continues to Grow in Asia
European High-Speed Households
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
Why are joint ventures losing favor with transnational companies? Professor Mihir A. Desai discusses research that suggests globalization makes go-it-alone strategies pay off.
Content: Article | Author: Cynthia D. Churchwell | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: International, Strategy
India Outsourcing Market
Socialist Entrepreneurs
The founding fathers of European socialism are testimony that the principles of good management are universal, no matter what the ideology.
Content: Article | Author: Morgen Witzel | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: History, International – Europe
Trade Agreements Database and Archive
The complex and far-flung world of trade agreements has just been made much simpler, thanks to Dartmouth’s Tuck Center for International Business (CIB) Trade Agreements Database and Archive. This is an updated collection of bilateral and regional free trade agreements and customs union agreements, most of which have been notified to the World Trade Organization. The archive section contains full texts of 164 agreements, that … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Tuck Center for International Business (CIB) | Subjects: International, Trade
Are you ready to learn from your offshore affiliates?
Reverse knowledge transfers are beneficial to MNCs, but just how much so depends on the subsidiaries’ strategic mission, its country’s economic development and the ability of headquarters to absorb incoming information.
Content: Article | Authors: Björn Ambos, Bodo Schlegelmilch, Tina Chini | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: International, Knowledge Management
Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke – Trade and Jobs
“Despite what seems to economists to be a compelling case for trade, non-economists are far more skeptical. A perennial public concern, from the emergence of the “Rust Belt” in the 1980s, to the days of Ross Perot’s “giant sucking sound,” to the more recent debate about the effects of international outsourcing, is that the expansion of trade will cause production to move abroad, at the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Ben S. Bernanke | Source: The Federal Reserver Board | Subjects: Economics, International
African Mobile Market
State of the World 2004
Worldwatch’s venerable annual focuses on “the consumer economy” – how the world’s citizens live, eat, and buy energy, transportation, and consumer goods. Chock filled with data and examples. This is a great place to get grounding on global trends. There’s a viewpoint, to be sure, but it is delivered with so much authority that it seems hard to question, even if you want to. … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Source: Worldwatch Institute | Subjects: Economics, International
Chinese Search Market
The Costliest Places To Run a Business
Industry Structure Determines Whether and How to Expand Internationally
Race for the World: Strategies to Build a Great Global Firm
In Race for the World, consultants with McKinsey & Co. look at the vast changes in the world’s economy that are altering the way almost everyone does business. The authors believe that geographic barriers to business will virtually disappear over the next 30 years and that the implications for companies could be devastating–or incredibly rewarding. “Over time, the only class that matters will be world … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Jane Fraser, Jeremy M. Oppenheim, Lowell Bryan, Wilhelm Rall | Subjects: Economics, International