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Globalization in history: a geographical perspective
Crafts, Nicholas; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
the context of globalization. Central to this view is the role of agglomeration in productivity performance; size and …
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Measuring Manufacturing: How the Computer and Semiconductor Industries Affect the Numbers and Perceptions
Houseman, Susan N.; Bartik, Timothy J.; Sturgeon, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014
Growth in U.S. manufacturing’s real value-added has exceeded that of aggregate GDP, except during recessions, leading many to conclude that the sector is healthy and that the 30 percent decline in manufacturing employment since 2000 is largely the consequence of automation. The robust growth...
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Emergence of a biofuel economy in Tanzania: Local developments and global connections from an institutional perspective
Arora, Saurabh; Caniëls, Marjolein C.J.; Romijn, Henny - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (Ecis), … - 2010
Jatropha is emerging as an important biofuel crop throughout developing countries in the tropics. Initially lauded as an environmentally-benign ‘wonder crop’ suitable for arid wasteland cultivation that would avoid competition with scarce livelihood resources, it has recently begun to...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds and the New Dynamics of Globalization in the Context of the Current Financial Crisis: International Competitiveness Through Outsourcing in Emerging Countries
Doina, Drãniceanu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIII (2013) 2, pp. 25-30
At global economy level, changes occurred, consisting in transferring production abroad, owing to the comparative advantages of moving production to China or other developing countries, which translate into cost reductions at production level and, implicitly, into price advantages. The...
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Contemporary Trends within the International Financial Intermediation System Evolution
Cornel, Grigorut; Catalin, Popa; Filip, Nistor - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIII (2013) 2, pp. 35-39
roles of financial and monetary transactions all over the economic world, as a globalization prior value to be assumed, but …
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A Great Career, a Great Man, Professor Dumitru Patriche. A Testimony coming from the last former PhD Student trying to look beyond the Electronic Commerce topic that they focused o...
IYODA, Mitsuhiko - In: Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine 2 (2011) 4, pp. 34-40
E-commerce and e-business are considered by some as a whole new dimension in terms of economics, while at the same time many professionals see it as a natural evolution of the same raw, basic, traditional economic principles. Although this was the main concept, together with its applicability...
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THE TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES’ IMPACT ON DEVELOPING ECONOMIES DURING THE GLOBALIZATION PROCESS
Ionescu, Alexandru; Cârstea, Vlad - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 8 (2013) 3.1, pp. 71-78
Economic reality worldwide is marked by the evolution of globalization. This process entails effects that are perceived … pertaining to the relationship between globalization and developing economies, stressing on internationalizing Transnational …
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BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND THE FLAT WORLD OF THOMAS FRIEDMAN
Spiridon, Cristian - In: CES Working Papers 5(4) (2013) December, pp. 600-614
The present paper aims to disseminate the impact of globalization on the nation-state throughout the history. The … research objective consists in the reviewing of the assertion of the globalization phenomenon and the conflicts it stirred at … two antagonistic positions: an optimistic view according to which globalization has a positive effect overall and a …
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La estrategia de multilocalización internacional de la Corporación Mondragon
Luzarraga, José María; Irizar, Iñazio - In: EKONOMIAZ 79 (2012) 01, pp. 115-146
period 1999-2009, as a case of cooperative innovation towards a people-centred globalization. This seeks to protect the …
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Development of Employee Intercultural Competency in Organizations of Lithuania (analysis of experience)
GRAZULIS, Vladimiras; MARKUCKIENE, Elzbieta - In: Alma Mater University journal 7 (2014) 1, pp. 47-60
IThe authors of the article discuss the concept of perception of interculturalism in the context of global environment and the significance of this phenomenon for organizations in the process of raising intercultural competence of their staff. Most scientific researches focus on the phenomenon...
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