While there is an influx of foreign investment into China, Chinese companies are also extending their interest overseas. Globalisation takes on various forms: the most common of which is direct exporting while a few chose to establish manufacturing facilities overseas (like Haier). The cases...

If models are simplified pictures of reality, current international market selection process (IMSP) models do not pass the test of reality. Further, there has been limited research carried out in Australia on this issue. Using grounded theory methodology, this article explores how a...

Today's global economy and increased internationalization of business activity are forcing business schools to internationalize their business curriculum, including the accounting curriculum, in order to educate and prepare students to practice globally. However, universities must possess or...

This paper explores multinational production-location decision in the context of intemational tax competition and unionisation oflabour market. The innovation of this paper is to make multinational production-location decision, tax packages and union-govemment wage bargaining endogenous that...

The study investigates the interdependence of the stock markets in the following countries; Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the advanced stock markets of Australia, Germany and the United States. Using data from 1994 to 2003 the paper...

This paper focuses on the effects of organizational context on the acquisition of tacit and explicit marketing know-how by the local partner from staff of the foreign partner firm in an IJV (international joint venture). Organizational context consists of management features and matching...

The increasing pressure from different facets of society exerted on multinational companies (MNCs) to become more philanthropic and claim ownership of their impacts is now becoming a standard practice. Although research in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has arguably been recent (see...

Conducting market research internationally adds to the complexity of the research task, when implementing an Australian business franchise system into international markets. The aim of this research is to investigate: ?Why and how do Australian companies perform international market research...

Domestic companies are increasingly trying to expand to become globalised firms or multinational corporations (MNCs). Existing business strategies, visions and information systems need to be re-analysed and perhaps reconstructed to fulfil the business goals, operations and characteristics of the...

Research in this thesis investigates the following issue; dynamics of international financial integration; international portfolio equity investment patterns; Australian investors? equity investment position in the global economy; and finally geographical and home bias related to equity...