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Public education spending in a globalized world:

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - In: International Tax and Public Finance 19 (2012) 5, pp. 677-707

This paper studies the effect of globalization on public expenditures allocated to different stages of education. First …, we derive theoretically that globalization’s influence on education expenditures depends on the type of government. For … globalization on public education spending cannot be unambiguously predicted. In the second part of the paper, we empirically …

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The Embeddedness of Responsible Business Practice: Exploring the Interaction Between National-Institutional Environments and Corporate Social Responsibility

Fransen, Luc - In: Journal of Business Ethics 115 (2013) 2, pp. 213-227

Academic literature recognizes that firms in different countries deal with corporate social responsibility (CSR) in different ways. Because of this, analysts presume that variations in national-institutional arrangements affect CSR practices. Literature, however, lacks specificity in...

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Emerging Trends in Global Ethics: A Comparative Study of U.S. and International Family Business Values

Blodgett, Mark; Dumas, Colette; Zanzi, Alberto - In: Journal of Business Ethics 99 (2011) 1, pp. 29-38

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Asymmetric volatility and trading volume: The G5 evidence

Sabbaghi, Omid - In: Global Finance Journal 22 (2011) 2, pp. 169-181

In light of the global financial crisis of 2008, this study provides an empirical investigation of the asymmetric volatility–trading volume relationship. Using national equity indices, this study conducts an EGARCH analysis for the Group of Five, or G5, countries. The empirical evidence...

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Challenges and strategies for global human resource executives: Perspectives from Canada and the United States

Ananthram, Subramaniam; Chan, Christopher - In: European Management Journal 31 (2013) 3, pp. 223-233

This article examines the pressing challenges faced by global human resource executives and the strategies that are used to address those challenges at the macro, meso and micro levels. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with 26 Canadian and American HR executives. The challenges include...

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Openness to international markets and the diffusion of standards compliance in Latin America. A multi level analysis

Freitas, Bodas; Maria, Isabel; Iizuka, Michiko - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 201-215

This study contributes to the debate on the role of openness to international markets for the diffusion of compliance with international standards in developing countries. Relying upon aggregated data for 1995–2005, as well as upon firm-level and secondary data from the Chilean salmon farming...

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Examining the influence of uncertainty on marketing mix strategy elements in emerging business to business export-markets

Helm, Roland; Gritsch, Stephanie - In: International Business Review 23 (2014) 2, pp. 418-428

The degree of adaptation or standardization of the marketing program is critical in international business ventures. However, findings within this important research field and, consequently, implications for practice remain contradictory and confusing. The purpose of this paper is to examine...

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Globalization, culture, religion, and values: Comparing consumption patterns of Lebanese Muslims and Christians

Cleveland, Mark; Laroche, Michel; Hallab, Ranim - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 8, pp. 958-967

Understanding the differential impact of globalization on culture – the most profound shaper of consumption – is … fundamentally important. This research examines the linkages of cultural globalization (acculturation to global consumer culture …

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Bank mergers as scale-free coagulation

Pushkin, Dmitri O; Aref, Hassan - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336 (2004) 3, pp. 571-584

description of fast integration processes characteristic of globalization. …

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Global Metropolis - assessing economic activity in global centers based on nighttime satellite images

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Gulden, Tim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This research provides new data and insight metropolitan areas worldwide. It summarizes new data, derived from satellite images of the world at night, to provide systematic estimates of the economic activity generated by cities and metropolitan areas worldwide. It identifies 681 global...

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