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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …
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Innovation and Leapfrogging in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Examples from Geely, BYD and Shifeng
Wang, Hua; Kimble, Chris - HAL - 2013
History provides numerous examples of incumbent market leaders being leapfrogged by newcomers that have exploited the opportunities offered by new technologies. In light of the growing number of ecological threats linked to the use of the internal combustion engine, can Chinese auto...
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China's new energy vehicles: value and innovation
Kimble, Chris; Wang, Hua - HAL - 2013
, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …
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Clustering of regional economic activity in a globalised economy/ Кластеризация региональной хозяйственной деятельности в условиях глобализации экономики...
Tarasov, Nikolay; Edelev, Dmitry - HAL - 2012
The article is focused on current problems of reproduction processes at the regional level considering globalisation requirements. Attention is paid to the analysis of preconditions of cluster development of regional economy which tent to become the major reproduction factor in case of...
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Mediating the transitions to work : the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective
Darmon, Isabelle; Perez, Coralie; Wright, Sharon - HAL - 2010
Labour market and career advice and guidance have received considerable recent research and policy attention and have been heralded as part of the new institutional resources required in reformed, active, welfare states. We seek to understand the meaning of such policy enthusiasm by proposing an...
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Analyzing and comparing Professional Service Firms over services, time and space. Proposition of a foundation framework
Gand, Sébastien - HAL - 2010
Research on professional service firms (PSFs) has been quickly developing over the last twenty years, especially emphasizing both PSFs' distinctiveness and their current challenges. Recent efforts by PSFs scholars have focused on the issue of understanding differences between PSfs regarding...
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008
suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a variety of economic and social activities …
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How do Japanese and French firms in steel industry address the institutional change and the globalization? Employment adjustment and age management in a downsizing context
Lanciano, Emilie; Nitta, Michio - HAL - 2010
Steel industry has been engaged for a very long time in a downsizing process which has deeply transformed social and industrial relations, work and employment management. Once, these industry was owned and managed by big national groups (sometimes public) and employed a lot of workers at...
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Shaping and reshaping the work organisation : including or excluding low skilled labour? The case of the nurse assistant in Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Grimshaw, Damian; Carroll, Marilyn; Jaehrling, Karen; … - HAL - 2006
The hospital industry could be characterised on the one hand as under “industrial constraints” (just in time, 24 hours opening, and on the other hand as a service activity with, in departments, a high degree of patient oriented activities. Very similar pressure are exerted on hospitals in...
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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis
Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006
comparison with France. It has been designed as follows. In section 1, we begin by comparing the general features of labour …
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