Introduction: Why Hong Kong? -- Reading Hong Kong in place and time -- Origins and growth, 1840s-1930s -- Transformations of Hong Kong, 1930-1970 -- Toward the twenty-first century: speed and paradox -- Hong Kong and its regional context -- Hong Kong and cities of East Asia -- Diasporic Hong Kong

Chapter 1: Introduction; Jason Begley, Tom Donnelly, David Jarvis and Paul Sissons -- Chapter 2: Coventry: A Growing City; Tom Donnelly -- Chapter 3: Coventry at War: Industrial Relations, Ownership and Production; Malte Busch -- Chapter 4: Coventry in the Long Boom 1950-1970; Michael Haynes --...

The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and North-American countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock...

Mit dem hier vorliegenden Text werden die Ergebnisse der ersten Phase eine Forschungsprojektes vorgelegt, das sich auf die Untersuchung von Entwicklungsprojekten in internationalen Kooperationen und strategischen Allianzen richtet. Ausgangspunkt ist die Bildung von globalen Arbeitsprozessen als...

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