Holstein goes deep inside GM on three continents to show what's really happening within one of the country's most iconic corporations. Demonstrates how GM has already radically retooled its entire operation, from manufacturing and cost structure to design

In this paper we develop a small open economy model explaining the joint determination of output, inflation, interest rates, unemployment and the exchange rate in a multi-country framework. Our model – the Halle Economic Projection Model (HEPM) – is closely related to studies recently...

Introduction and overview / Prema-chandra Athukorala -- Asian trade and investment : trends and patterns / Prema-chandra Athukorala and Hal Hill -- The spatial patterns of production and distribution networks in East Asia / Mitsuyo Ando and Fukunari Kimura -- Production fragmentation and...

Reformstau in Deutschland. Was muss sich ändern? Und wie sollen wir es anpacken? Der renommierte Unternehmer und Berater Günter Rommel zeichnet ein plastisches Bild unserer Lebensbedingungen im Vergleich zu Japan und den USA. Er deckt die Ursachen von vielen Missständen auf und packt die...