Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 103
Cover Image
Recent Changes in the Japanese Wholesale System and the Importance of the Sogo Shosha
Larke, Roy; Davies, Keri - 2007
Interest in Japanese distribution as a field of academic study has waned in recent years, but there is a continuing … concern with the activities of Japan’s general trading companies or Sogo Shosha. This research has concentrated largely on … domestic distribution in Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465940
Cover Image
Leaving the L-Space; Kundenintegration als Erklärungsansatz multinationaler Unternehmen im Dienstleistungssektor - Eine Weiterentwicklung des OLI-Modells
Radmacher-Nottelmann, Nils A. - 2010
Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447148
Cover Image
Exchange rate exposure of U.S. industries
Luangnarumitchai, Jakkapan - 2009
This thesis examines exchange rate exposure of 30 U.S. industries between 1974 and 2008 using traditional and orthogonalized linear models. Similar to the literature, when using traditional linear model we find that exposure is very time dependent and often insignificant. However, we discover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475845
Cover Image
The U.S. passenger car industry in the 1980's
Yang, Ling - 2008
from the government to prevent mass imports of small cars from Japan; while on the other hand, they still lost market share … to their Japanese counterparts and ever since then, they have been facing fierce competition from the Japanese auto … was the primary competition field then. It first briefly introduces the rise of Japanese automobile industry, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476101
Cover Image
Country image and consumer-based brand equity: Relationships and implications for international marketing
Pappu, R.; Quester, P. G.; Cooksey, R. W. - 2007
his paper examines the relationships between consumers' country-level and product-level images of a country, and the equity they associate with a brand from that country, using canonical correlation analysis. Results from mall-intercept surveys conducted in an Australian state capital city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448545
Cover Image
Transfering Target Excellence Overseas: Toward a Conceptual Framework of Global Target Cost Management
Okano, Hiroshi - 2002
performing globalcooperation of product development between a corporate headquarters in Japan andoverseas bases, its success will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432828
Cover Image
A cultural political economy Of business strategy in a developing country context: The case of the Sri Lankan tea industry
Wickramasinghe, A.; Cameron, D. C. - 2005
This paper contributes to the development of a critical understanding of business strategy of the Sri Lankan tea industry within broader socio-cultural politico-economy perspective. The broader insight coming from this thesis will enhance the understanding of the stakeholders of the industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448082
Cover Image
E-Business Impact on SCM in the apparel industry operating
Gamage, Asanka Hiroshana Horadugoda - 2007
This thesis examines the impact of e-Business in the B2B segment of the Supply Chainbetween UK retailers and Sri Lankan manufacturers in the apparel sector.The literature review explored four interrelated themes, two of them informed by anexploratory study. Research collating these four themes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009479990
Cover Image
Intellectual Capital Disclosure, Civil War, and Realized Earnings in Current Stock Return
Abeysekera, Indra - 2008
This paper studies the relation between current intellectual capital disclosure (lCD), realized current earnings, and three years realized future earnings, in Sri Lanka ridden with a civil war. Examination of the top 30 listed firms in Colombo Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2003 shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457459
Cover Image
The Place of Self-actualization in Workplace Spirituality
Fernando, Mario; Nilakant, V. - 2008
The aim of this paper is to develop a self-actualizing spirituality model. It examines the place of self-actualization in the experience of workplace spirituality of Sri Lankan business leaders. The primary method of data collection was in-depth and face-to-face interviews with 13 Sri Lankan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457474