This book offers new quantitative insights into how South African economy reacts to external economic shocks. The analysis includes focusing on economic growth and financial spill over, effects of capital inflows, contrasting the stock market price returns and volatility on economic growth and...

This book is one of the very few published investigations of international business in a Japanese context, based on an up-to-date overview of the Japanese mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in particular. The author explicates recent developments in Japanese business and shows how Japanese...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that...

Caroline S. Wang untersucht die Einflüsse wichtiger standort- und firmenspezifischer Faktoren auf die Entwicklung der Direktinvestitionstätigkeiten sowie auf die zukünftigen Direktinvestitionsplanungen von Firmen. Die Autorin trägt dazu bei, das Direktinvestitionsverhalten deutscher Firmen...

Annotation Kiruba Jeyaseeli Benjamin Levi highlights why the Indian telecom market is so attractive to foreign investors. She describes the rules and regulations for telecoms in India, and examines the reasons for success and failure of the foreign telecom companies in India. She identifies the...

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging...

This book compiles brand new case studies on the intricacies and market entry strategies of different companies in China. The sheer speed and scope of China’s growth makes it unique and investment opportunities are very attractive. Despite the potential, many western companies fail in their...

Das Werk informiert Investoren, Unternehmer, Manager, Politiker und Berater umfassend und praxisnah über den aktuellen Stand der Chancen und Risiken eines geschäftlichen oder beruflichen China-Engagements. Die dritte, völlig überarbeitete Neuauflage zeigt, wie drastisch China sich...