market for the realities they will inevitably confront there. The transportation sector has not kept up with China′s rapid … economic growth. Transportation has become a major bottleneck to further development of foreign business operations in China … seriously, but it will likely be decades before transport operations in China run smoothly.  …

. Covers in turn logistics in China and Japan, including a profile of Braun Electric; methods of improving the supply chain …

Foreign firms face many supply chain‐related difficulties in China. These include China’s overburdened, underdeveloped … supply chains in China in an effort to leverage the country’s cheap labor costs. This strengthening of the supply chain can …

firms, both up-stream and down-stream, on whom they depend in delivering their projects. For foreign constructors in China … adapt themselves to the problem of sourcing competitively when located within a China-based supply chain? The paper aims to …. Finally, firms also seek to transit to China as a procurement base in order to reduce local supply cost, service world …

Export grouping schemes are a commonly used vehicle for promoting international competitiveness, but their success rate … nature and role of export groups using the results from two in‐depth Australian case studies. The focus of analysis is on … export groups as structuring devices rather than structures. They are viewed as action learning exercises in which knowledge …

Applies new tests for parameter instability in cointegrated models to evaluate the traditional export demand function …. The determinants of exports considered are world real income, export price and competitors’ export price. The data for … satisfy the conditions of a small, price‐taking country in world trade. Irrespective of whether one normalizes export demand …