During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "Business and Management: The Changing Corporation" he discusses: joint alliances and market agreements, parent companies and their subsidiaries, changing technology and markets, seniority and Japanese companies, mutual funds and pensions, mortgages,...

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "The Expanding Leadership of Mid-Sized Organizations" he discusses why mid-sized companies have excelled and what they require to maintain their competitive advantage. During his lecture, he talks about: multinationals, the growth of imports, Boeing and...

Australia and the UK are both prominent economies in the international arena and share a strong trade and investment relationship. Interestingly, the UK while being a significant destination for Australian exports is an even more significant destination for Australian direct investment, a case...

This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, andexamines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDIinflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence ofmultinational corporations (MNCs) in the...

This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, andexamines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDIinflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence ofmultinational corporations (MNCs) in the...

Based upon the textual analysis of over 2000 Chinese and English web pages, as well as on the author's ethnographic observations with three Chinese multinational corporations, six operational strategies and three communication challenges on the Chinese companies' global outreach and expansion...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and contents of Islamic management practices and their consequent implications for human resource management (HRM) in Arab countries. In addition, it aims to examine the implications for multinational companies (MNCs) operating in...

There has been considerable research over the past few decades on the process through which headquarters of multinationals from developed economies exercise control over their network of subsidiaries in foreign countries. However, little research has been conducted on multinationals from...

Paper examines how a major multinational corporation manages its knowledge assets and utilises a knowledge audit tooldeveloped by the authors, together with manager interviews, to gain further insight into the knowledge capabilities of asuccessful international business, and particularly the...

In dieser Arbeit werden in vier Kapiteln vier Themen der Weltwirtschaft behandelt: (1) Weshalb konzentrieren sich intra-industrieller Handel und intra-industrielle Investitionen auf Industrieländer? (2) Wieso ist es für ein multinationales Unternehmen wichtig, dauerhaft Technologieführer zu...