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multinational enterprises who are concerned with increasing their share of the world’s largest consumer market. In particular … past conflicts (i.e. war, economic, political, etc.) between Japan and China. …
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react to China’s growing energy demand in light of a shrinking world supply. Lastly, I perform a meta-analysis on the …This paper investigates the primacy of foreign direct investment inflows in liberalizing China’s economy and whether … disparities. By examining the history of FDI inflows in China, it becomes evident that FDI inflows were an instrumental part in …
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of relationship functions are compared for buyers and sellers from Europe and China. It was found that direct functions … dysfunctions of relationships. Research comparing different parts of China, arguably more diverse than many European countries … that business models of relationship functions developed for Western business may be more applicable to China than …
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Rationale A geopolitical fragmentation of world trade, i.e. the emergence of two blocs that restrict trade with … harness greater trade integration with the European Union to reduce the costs of a potential fragmentation of world trade. …
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Although global changes like political security, depletion of natural resources,energy supply and global warming are affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these...
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The annual budget cycle in urban road/transport authorities by implication requires transport infrastructure projects to be ranked in terms of their relative value, to enable project selection by starting from the most deserving proposal. This follows from the fact that the total cost of...
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This paper examines the protection of Critical Infrastructure (CI) within transport networks from vulnerabilities by investigating the impact of disasters such as bushfires, hurricanes and earthquakes. Damage to transport infrastructure creates a cascading effect on other critical infrastructure...
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The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to suggest and operationalise several important extensions and improvements in the methodology used to evaluate regional economic effects of the large-scale transport infrastructure and pricing policies. The main contributions are divided into the static...
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Recent trends in the provision of infrastructure development indicate that the private sector is playing an increasingly important role in the procurement process. This trend has partly arisen out of a necessity for the development of infrastructure to be undertaken at a rate that maintains and...
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Document #PICRM-2004-06Research Area: Processes, Productivity and Profitability
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