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The Internationalization of Vietnamese SMEs

Kokko, Ari; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have been important for Vietnam’s rapid economic development. However, the context in which SMEs operate are rapidly changing with the current internationalisation of the Vietnamese economy. The question posed in this paper is “How are Vietnam’s...

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E.; Blomström, Magnus; Ramstetter, Eric - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995

"services", which are about 60 per cent of world output. Given all the attention that "globalization" has received from scholars …

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Globalization and Domestic Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - CESifo - 2005

We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a …

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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global … economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman’s views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical …

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International Trade in Services—Editorial Introduction

Lejour, Arjan; Smith, Peter - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 8 (2008) 3, pp. 169-180

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Globalization and the Market for International Organizations : The OECD Case

Fratianni, M.; Pattison, J. - Department of Economics, Indiana University - 1998

The market for international organizations (IOs) has changed radically in the past fifty years, partly in response to te success these organizations have achieved. This paper focuses on one important organization, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the...

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Service Offshoring: A Challenge for Employment? Evidence from Germany

Schöller, Deborah - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, … - 2006

Besides material offshoring, economists have started to analyze the impact of service offshoring on domestic employment. Services are of particular interest since their significance has grown not only in terms of quantity, but also of qualitative understanding. One decade ago, most services were...

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Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Artis, Michael; Okubo, Toshihiro - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2008

separate periods, those of the first globalization wave (1870 to 1914), the period of the "bloc economy" (1915 to 1959) and for … the period of the second globalization (1960-2001). Cluster analysis is applied and the McNemar test is used to test for … that features some well-defined sub-global clusters, where the second globalization period does not, the first …

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Economic and political world order: Trends, issues and prospects

Yenal, Oktay - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 23 (2008) 270, pp. 7-40

our day following the euphoria at the end of the last century. Globalization, which was heralded as the key to worlwide …

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Adapting Corporate Governance for Sustainable Peace

Fort, Timothy L.; Schipani, Cindy A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

, and globalization. This section establishes the general parameters of the argument that democracy and peace are linked and … that there are serious charges that globalization works against democracy and thereby threatens the sustainability of peace …

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