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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer. The Case of the European Transition Countries and the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic
Torlak geb. Cokoja, Elvisa - 2010
Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct investments regarding their contribution to the long-term development potential of the host countries.The effects of the foreign direct investments on the foreign and domestic companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449688
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Inflation targeting and monetary integration in European emerging market economies
Felix Hammermann - 2008
This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429025
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Agricultural Productivity Growth in the European Union and Transition Countries
Lissitsa, Alexej; Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat - 2006
Economic reform in the Central and Eastern European countries in the 1980s helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there are large differences among the transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442539
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Investigating affordability problems of utility services – A theoretical study on the ratio measure
Gawel, Erik; Bretschneider, Wolfgang - 2010
Unlike in developing countries, there tends to be no problem of access to water, electricity, and heating for private households in transition countries. However, transition countries have a considerable amount of low-income households, and the problem of affordability of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442652
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Competitiveness in the Food Industry: a CGE Modelling Approach to assess Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Countries
Banse, Martin; Gay, Stephan Hubertus; McDonald, Scott; … - 2007
For transition countries, the food industry sector is a key industry in terms of output andemployment shares. As a competitive sector that receives substantial foreign directinvestments (FDI), it plays an important role as an element in the process of integration in theEuropean and world market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445075
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A Methodology for Assessing National Sustainable Development Strategies
Cherp, Aleg; George, Clive; Kirkpatrick, Colin - 2004
At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty as to the effectiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446652
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Autonomy and Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries in five Transition Countries
Varblane, Urmas; Männik, Katrin; Hannula, Helena - 2005
The paper analyses the link between the autonomy according to business function and the performance of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Estonia. The novelty of the paper is in the deeper investigation of the multidimensionality of autonomy. Using the method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477501
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Happiness research (Glücksforschung) - eine Abkehr vom Materialismus
Ruckriegel, Karlheinz - 2007
„Stellen wir uns vor, an jedem Tag würde ein winzigesQuantum mehr Liebe, Vernunft, Klugheit aufscheinen.Menschen würden sich eine Spur aufmerksamerbehandeln. Liebende würden eine Nuanceliebevoller miteinander umgehen. Bürger würdensich ein winziges Stück weit kooperativer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463554
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Quo vadis, Soziale Markwirtschaft? Statement im Rahmen des Kommentargottesdienstes in der Lorenzkirche vom 19.10.2008 - erweiterte Fassung vom 30.10.2008 -
Ruckriegel, Karlheinz - 2008
Steht das christliche Denken in einem Widerspruch zur (Grundkonzeption der) Sozialen Markwirtschaft, deren 60jährigen Geburtstag wir in diesem Jahr gefeiert haben? Was ist das Menschenbild in der Konzeption der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft? In einem Aufruf zum Festakt zur Erneuerung der Sozialen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463555
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An exploration of frontline staff service orientated behaviours
Beatson, Amanda T.; Lings, Ian - 2005
affect staff performance, their satisfaction with their job and their quitting intentions. With that in mind, this study …, job satisfaction, affective commitment and instrumental commitment, and intention to leave the organisation. The study is … service orientation positively impacts their behaviour towards customers, as does training. However, employee satisfaction and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437617