This research focuses on the global expansion of the transnational retail industry. Globalization is a phenomenon experienced by many industries in the present global economy. The global production network (GPN) framework can be used to explain and interpret the phenomenon of transnational...

This study focuses on clarifying factors that influence the sustainability of a development project, by examining a bilateral aid project in Vietnam: "The HIV/AIDS/STI Commune Clinics Network Project." This is a CIDA funded project which started in 2003 and is still going on. The purpose of this...

Fair trade businesses distinguish themselves from many mainstream companies by their commitment to balanced social, environmental, and financial objectives - in other words, the triple bottom line. This paper explores the contextual environment in which fair trade businesses operate, the social...

This research paper compares what the author considers to be the "Best Practices" in the field of social entrepreneurship to the practices of four microenterprise organizations: ACEnet, Appalmade, the Neighborhood Development Center and Mountain Microenterprise Fund. Although the sample is one...

This research investigates the information content of the translation information resulting from exchange rate fluctuations. Two hypotheses are examined. The dollar movement hypotheses investigate whether there is a positive relationship between security valuation and the translation information...

Cendant International Assignment Services is a relocation company that specializes in managing and coordinating international and domestic moves for organizations all over the world. While some organizations maintain high levels of employee retention, others encounter difficulties with attrition...

This study analyzes the IHR organization of a large automobile manufacturer (Organization X) in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan to discover the extent to which it is instilling a corporate culture that truly values the international experience and builds that value into its culture. The extent to...

This paper explores the diminishing influence of national cultural distance on two subsidiary control issues, expatriate staffing and parent company ownership level of the foreign subsidiary. Previous studies have produced conflicting findings: one stream of research argues that when cultural...

The growth of global competition has established international segmentation as a key issue in developing, positioning and selling products throughout the world (Ter Hofstede, Steenkamp and Wedel 1999). Many international segmentation studies have used macro-level, secondary data to identify...