Using figures from European Union members, the volume highlights the conditional effects of globalization, asset specificity, and domestic institutions. Far from being impotent, democratic states face politically powerful pressures to continue to shield social actors from the vagaries of the...

This book undertakes two main tasks. First, it provides an overview of Sino-Mexican trade and economic relations since the normalization of diplomatic relations in the 1980s. Second, it presents a re-evaluation of Mexico’s trade policies with China, from the import substitution...

Ordnungsrahmen des Außenhandels -- Erscheinungsformen und Geschäftssysteme des Außenhandels -- Außenhandelsmarketing -- Kaufverträge und Handelsbräuche im Außenhandel -- Lieferbedingungen im Außenhandel -- Transportwesen im Außenhandel.- Dokumente im Außenhandel -- Zahlungsbedingungen...

This book analyzes Italy’s external competitiveness in detail and introduces a new index, devised by Marco Fortis and Stefano Corradini for Fondazione Edison, that highlights the strengths of Italy’s foreign trade. Compared with the Trade Performance Index compiled and updated annually by...

Ordnungsrahmen des Außenhandels -- Erscheinungsformen und Geschäftssysteme des Außenhandels -- Außenhandelsmarketing -- Kaufverträge und Handelsbräuche im Außenhandel -- Lieferbedingungen im Außenhandel -- Transportwesen im Außenhandel -- Dokumente im Außenhandel -- Zahlungsbedingungen...

Einführung -- Ordnungsrahmen des Außenhandels -- Erscheinungsformen und Geschäftssysteme im Außenhandel -- Außenhandelsmarketing -- Kaufverträge und Handelsbräuche im Außenhandel -- Lieferbedingungen im Außenhandel -- Transportwesen im Außenhandel -- Dokumente im Außenhandel --...

"Alan Coppin is a rare individual. His experience and insight span private and public sectors, charities, and the Armed Forces. The vital importance of human capital is the thread which has bound all this together. His book is a rich gold mine of data, research, wisdom and anecdote." -Sir Gerry...

This book focuses on the accounting change processes that drive integrated reporting in the public sector. The Integrated Report is a tool that allows public sector entities to quantify and convey those aspects of their organization, strategy, governance and performance that lead to the creation...

Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Context, Purpose and Structure of the Book.- 2 State Aid for Newspapers.- Part II: Theories -- 3 State Support for News -- 4 Industrial Subsidies -- 5 Newspaper Subsidies and Journalistic Quality -- 6 State Aid to the Press in the EU -- 7 Press Governance.-...

This volume presents contributions that analyse the extraordinary impact of digital technology on business, services, and the production of value in many sectors of the economy. At the heart of this book is the fact that the entire digital economy is now worth almost 6% of global GDP, and it...