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India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation : The Unfinished Economic Agenda
Taneja, Nisha (ed.); Dayal, Isha (ed.) - 2017
This book explores the unfinished India-Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book “India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations” published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral...
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Vietnam’s Economic Entities in Transition
Sakata, Shozo (ed.) - 2013
During the last two decades, Vietnam has been undergoing a process of deregulating economic activities and integrating … Vietnam's rapid growth over this period. In order to cope with such a socioeconomic and institutional transformation, Vietnam … result, the reorganization of Vietnam's domestic economic entities, such as the equitization of many state-owned enterprises …
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Transformations of Global Prosperity : How Foreign Investment, Multinationals, and Value Chains are Remaking Modern Economy
Dowlah, Caf - 2018
This book presents an in-depth understanding of the transformation of modern economy in the twenty-first century by examining the interface and interplay of three key forces of contemporary global economy-Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), and Global Value Chains...
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Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe
Pavlínek, Petr - 2017
This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success....
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Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe : Shifting Locales in the Motor Vehicle Industry
Jacobs, A. J. - 2017
This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989 onwards. Enticed by relatively lower-wage labour and significant government incentives, the world’s...
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A Successful Transformation? : Restructuring of the Czech Automobile Industry
Pavlínek, Petr (contributor) - 2008
This is a brilliant examination of the complex processes of the post-1990 transformation in the Czech automotive industry and its selective integration into the West European system. The post-1990 restructuring of the industry is analyzed in the context of its pre-1990 development and in the...
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The Historical Consumer : Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000
Francks, Penelope (ed.); Hunter, Janet (ed.) - 2012
This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the...
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Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship : An Analysis of the European Textile and Apparel Industries
J. Hodges, Nancy; Link, Albert N. - 2018
This book examines knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) with a focus on the European textile and apparel industries. The primary purpose is to review the extant academic literature related to the European textile and apparel industries and reflect on that review empirically using a new and...
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Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry : Opening Up Before the Reform
Broggi, Carles Brasó - 2016
The aim of this book is to track the historical origins of China’s economic reforms. From the 1920s and 1930s strong ties were built between Chinese textile industrialists and foreign machinery importers in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta. Despite the fragmentation of China, the contribution of...
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Product Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry
Jin, Byoungho (ed.); Cedrola, Elena (ed.) - 2018
This volume explores the essence of the fashion evolution has been constant innovation, which is the utilization of new ideas to produce new products, processes, services or business practices. As an initial attempt to understand innovation in fashion, this volume focuses on product innovations,...
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