Prof. Kasra Ferdows, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA. A key for achieving excellence in global operations is the expertise for aligning internationally dispersed operations into a cohesive global network. The course is focused on exploring this vital core concept. It can help you...

The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

This conference will explore the inter-relationships between migration, immigrant integration, and development. The intent is to bring to the foreground issues that are often lost when we discuss these general topics in isolation from one another. In this way we hope to uncover new aspects of...

The following aspects of international employment patterns will be addressed to gain further insights into this topic and to deduce policy implications: - The degree of substitutability of labor across locations - Short run vs. long run effects of FDI - Multinational SMEs - Counterfactual...

Gilles Saint-Paul (University of Toulouse) Topics: - Explaining the divergence in the unemployment experience of different countries in recent years - The role of shocks and institutions - The role of a more volatile environment - Is there a unique natural rate of unemployment? - The...

Good Agricultural Practices are becoming more and more widely adopted with consumer demand for healthy safe and sustainably produced food driving their expansion. An ever increasing number of producers in more than 80 countries are choosing GLOBALGAP certification to fulfil this demand. The...

Thema: "Private Haushalte im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ökonomie und Ökologie" Themen der Veranstaltung sind: - der Konsum, der Energieverbrauch einschließlich der Treibhausgasemissionen, - die Pendler, die Nutzung und Einsparung von Flächen sowie das Abfallaufkommen und die Abfallwirtschaft aus...

Referent/innen: The winner of the Nobel Prize in economics Prof. Michael Spence, the founder of the Stakeholder-Theory Prof. R. Edward Freeman (University of Virginia) and the founder of Transparency International Pr [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's...

Prof. John Stopford, London Business School, UK The purpose of the workshop is two-fold. First, it is designed to broaden your perspectives on the forces that are shaping world-wide competition and how successful companies have adapted and must adapt further in the future. Not only must economic...