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Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Technology Transfer : A Survey

Saggi, Kamal - In: World Bank Research Observer 17 (2002) 2, pp. 191-236

What role does trade play in international technology transfer? Do technologies introduced by multinational firms diffuse to local firms? What kinds of policies have proved successful in encouraging technology absorption from abroad and why? Using these questions as motivation, this article...

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“Just‐in‐Time” Production and the European Automotive Components Industry

Hudson, Ray; Sadler, David - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 22 (1992) 2, pp. 40-45

The market and political conditions facing Japanese investment in automobile assembly in Western Europe are wholly different from those in North America. Argues in consequence that a distinctive set of questions is necessary in order to evaluate the likely consequences of such investment for the...

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Russian Federalism: An American and West European Comparison

Brinkman, Richard L.; Bovt, Georgy - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 10, pp. 133-161

Analyses and clarifies the concept of federalism outside such limited paradigmatic boundaries and includes the relevant social and economic variables. Applies a holistic and interdisciplinary methodology in the framework of the processes of general culture evolution to interrelate the social,...

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Technology Transfer in the International Market

Millman, A.F. - In: European Journal of Marketing 17 (1983) 1, pp. 26-47

licensing. Examines reasons why unrelated companies become licensors and licensees. Cites the example of Honda of Japan …. Outlines the attitudes of Brazil, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and Japan to technology transfer. Concludes …

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Technology transfer in Asia: challenges from a cross‐cultural perspective

Hirt, Christian - In: Journal of Technology Management in China 7 (2012) 1, pp. 4-21

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight challenges to the transfer of technologies which are caused by the internationalization of companies and the need to outsource production in a globalized business environment. Aside from typical methods of transfer by means of documents or...

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Technology transfer models across cultures: Brunei‐Japan joint ventures

Hussain, Shabbir - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 6/7/8, pp. 1189-1198

conducted in Brunei Darussalam. The study focuses on Brunei‐Japan joint ventures located in Brunei. Based on these results, this …

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The revitalization of the UK automobile industry

McDermott, Michael C. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 96 (1996) 5, pp. 6-10

1996 marks the centenary of car production in the UK. Once a by‐word for inefficiency, contends that the UK car industry has been revitalized. The political environment of the 1980s rendered the UK an attractive location for Japanese “transplants”. Explains how Japanese producers have...

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Strategic alliances in the European defence industry

Butler, Colin; Kenny, Brian; Anchor, John - In: European Business Review 12 (2000) 6, pp. 308-322

Reports on research into the relationship between European defence manufacturing firms and their experience of cross‐border strategic alliances. The research takes in 135 cross‐border strategic alliances involving UK and European defence manufacturing firms, ranging from firms heavily...

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The Marketing of Pharmaceuticals in Japan by American Firms

Pahud de Mortanges, Charles; Rietbroek, Jan‐Willem; … - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 8 (1996) 2, pp. 3-24

States that although Japan's pharmaceutical industry has succeeded in steadily advancing its total sales revenues in … USA, while its three top European rivals: Germany, France and Italy ‐ in combination ‐ have consistently outperformed … Japan. Significantly, Japan remains the single largest recipient of US pharmaceutical exports with a surplus over imports of …

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The Smithers’ view: a rocky road ahead for Japan and the USA

Bruce, Robert - In: Balance Sheet 10 (2002) 3, pp. 19-24

Andrew Smithers is a leading UK economist and pundit. This outline of a talk which he gave to the UK Asset and Liability Management Association earlier this year looks at the economic prognosis for both the Japanese and the US economies. Both are facing tough and almost impossible choices, he...

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