The countries of Eastern and Central Europe have been progressing on the road to a market economy for a number of years now. UK companies, like other western firms, aware of the region’s inhabitants pent-up desire for numerous consumer and industrial products and services have invested...

This report is an update to the above mentioned UNCTAD/World Bank study (the "first phase"). Following that researchers revisited eight operations in four countries(Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania),conducting a total of 113 detailed additional interviewswith 349 stakeholders...

An experiment was designed to assess the effects of an enclosed incentive (bookmark), a promised incentive (offer of free copy of the survey results), the target country and the nationality of the parent company on response from a sample of American and Japanese-owned foreign subsidiaries. Logit...

This article discusses inter-partner relationships and their impact on joint venture performance. It explores the changes in the nature of relationships (conflict, commitment, co-operation, trust) which have important implications for the continuity and performance of partnerships. In doing so,...