The production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of total global production, but it causes an international...

For three decades a handful of giant American Corporations dominated the world computer industry. In the late 1980s a host of relatively small firms seized industry leadership. Many saw in this astounding reversal of fortune the birth of an open, progressive, highly competitive and democratic...

The issue of income inequality was neglected in the recent economic literature until perhaps the last two decades or so. The reason for this neglect may stem from the deterministic and mechanical way the issue has been treated in the works of the neoclassical economists. However, the classical...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is essential in international business and FDI in China has experienced rapid growth in the past three decades. The objective of this thesis is to analyze the political, economic, and cultural influences on FDI development at four stages of China's economy growth:...

The Internet is the latest in a long succession of communication technologies. The goal of thiswork is to draw lessons from the evolution of all these services. Little attention is paid to technologyas such, since that has changed radically many times. Instead, the stress is on the steady growth...

This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on...

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This study explained the diversity of corporate financial practices in two nations. Existing studies have emphasized the reliance on equity finance in U.S. firms and bank loans in Japanese firms. In fact, patterns of corporate finance were much more complex. Financial institutions, which were...

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