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Strategic alliances in the European defence industry

Butler, Colin; Kenny, Brian; Anchor, John - In: European Business Review 12 (2000) 6, pp. 308-322

Reports on research into the relationship between European defence manufacturing firms and their experience of cross‐border strategic alliances. The research takes in 135 cross‐border strategic alliances involving UK and European defence manufacturing firms, ranging from firms heavily...

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Globalization leadership in European organizations

Harris, Philip R. - In: European Business Review 12 (2000) 5, pp. 274-280

Reviews how the GEO model can assist European managers to meet the challenges in the new work culture.

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Globalisation or Europeanisation of business activity? Exploring the critical issues

Floyd, David - In: European Business Review 13 (2001) 2, pp. 109-114

Many debates have taken place on the question of globalisation. Critics have suggested that most of the changes in the market place are a regionalisation phenomena or indeed a Europeanisation issue rather than cases of globalisation. This article attempts to see whether this situation is truly...

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Can the World Trade Organization become a democratic institution?

MacPherson, Roderick - In: European Business Review 13 (2001) 3, pp. 185-192

economically from the globalization movement. …

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The European automobile industry: escape from parochialism

Donnelly, Tom; Mellahi, Kemal; Morris, David - In: European Business Review 14 (2002) 1, pp. 30-39

Observes that, until recently, the European car industry has focused its efforts almost entirely within the boundaries of its domestic markets. Since the rise of the Japanese car industry and those of emerging economies such as Malaysia and Korea, the Europeans have found that the levels of...

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The impact of national culture on international business performance: the case of foreign firms in Greece

Kessapidou, Sevasti; Varsakelis, Nikos C. - In: European Business Review 14 (2002) 4, pp. 268-275

This paper explores the impact of national culture on the performance of the foreign affiliates in Greece, a country which belongs to the economic periphery of the European Union. Greece is characterised by low internationalisation and competitiveness, and has been clustered by Hofstede in the...

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European challenge: developing global organizations

Harris, Philip R. - In: European Business Review 14 (2002) 6, pp. 416-425

globalization is forcing such a transformation of corporations, associations, and agencies. If business expects to be competitive in … achieve this goal. This article examines the impact of globalization on institutions, the challenges and issues in … globalization, and how to transform an organization into a global enterprise. The latter occurs, the author suggests, when such …

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Restructuring Ford Europe

Donnelly, Tom; Morris, David - In: European Business Review 15 (2003) 2, pp. 77-86

Within the contexts of globalization, rationalization and modularization, this article seeks to explore why Ford Europe …

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Internationalisation process of Spanish banks: strategic orientation after the mergers

Sanchez‐Peinado, Esther - In: European Business Review 15 (2003) 4, pp. 245-261

The present globalisation of the economy is one of the main forces driving the internationalisation process of firms, a phenomenon that has been one of the most widely studied in the literature and which has given rise to numerous explanatory theories. The manufacturing sectors of machinery,...

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The strategic alliances between the American and German companies

Abdou, Khaled; Kliche, Simone - In: European Business Review 16 (2004) 1, pp. 8-27

In the current situation of the global economy, engaging in strategic alliances depends upon several factors in which the national and organizational cultures of the companies are involved. This paper discusses the cultural differences between the German and the American culture by applying...

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