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Institutional Ownership and Multinational Firms Relationships to Social and Environmental Performance

Institutional Ownership and Multinational Firms: Relationships to Social and Environmental Performance

1st Edition

By James J. Kennelly
March 05, 2019

This study represents a rare empirical test of the assertions of critics of multinational corporations (MNCs), who argue that firm-level social and environmental performance suffers as MNCs grow increasingly mobile and subject to the short-term financial demands of institutional investors. Such ...

Copyright Law and Computer Programs The Role of Communication in Legal Structure

Copyright Law and Computer Programs: The Role of Communication in Legal Structure

1st Edition

By Jisuk Woo
June 28, 2018

This book analyzes U.S. federal cases on the copyright protection of computer software programs, to examine the role of communication in legal decision making process. It is the first to apply Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration to analyze law in a systematic and empirical way. Previous ...

Logics of Resistance Globalization and Telephone Unionism in Mexico and British Columbia

Logics of Resistance: Globalization and Telephone Unionism in Mexico and British Columbia

1st Edition

By Steve Dubb
November 18, 2016

This study examines how unions representing telephone workers--one in Mexico and one in British Columbia, Canada--have responded to changes in technology, work organization, and government policy stemming from the rise of a more global economy. Some business writers have suggested that ...

International Strategy and Market Performance in New Biotechnology Firms

International Strategy and Market Performance in New Biotechnology Firms

1st Edition

By Joseph E. Coombs
October 26, 2016

The issues addressed in this study are: What internal factors support changes in the international operations of new firms? and What effect do these changes have on the firm's structure, control system, and market performance. To answer these questions, this work examines the internal resources ...

Transnational Marketing in the Information Age

Transnational Marketing in the Information Age

1st Edition

By Diane M. Desimone
September 02, 2016

First Published in 1999. New questions of transnational, multi-cultural marketing utilizing advanced technologies add entirely new facets to the basic marketing issues of product, price, promotion, and distribution. The information presented in this volume discusses the need for true transnational ...

Globalization of Small Economies as a Strategic Behavior in International Business

Globalization of Small Economies as a Strategic Behavior in International Business

1st Edition

By Sergio A. Castello, Terutomo Ozawa
August 08, 2016

This book postulates the proposition that small economies exhibit a higher degree of outward orientation and structural adaptability, compared to their larger counterparts within the context of the European Union and two case studies (i.e. Catalonia and New Zealand). The number of nations has ...

The Communitarian Organization Preserving Cultural Integrity in the Transnational Economy

The Communitarian Organization: Preserving Cultural Integrity in the Transnational Economy

1st Edition

By JoAnn M. Foster
August 08, 2016

First Published in 1999. Emerging from profound political change in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, and coupled with a proliferation of market economies and technological and commercial interpenetrations of formerly closed societies, the international system has become an interdependent ...

Keeping International Commitments Compliance, Credibility and the G7, 1988-1995

Keeping International Commitments: Compliance, Credibility and the G7, 1988-1995

1st Edition

By Eleonore Kokotsis
July 28, 2016

This study is the first to offer explanations for compliance with G7 commitments by identifying the patterns, explaining the causes and exploring the processes of this compliance from 1988-1995. It provides the only systematic review of the G7's compliance record in the post-Cold War globalizing ...

The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations

The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations

1st Edition

By John T. Jones
June 01, 2016

Estimates the economic impact that past U.S. transborder trucking regulations have had on the number of inbound trucks, inbound truck load characteristics, and the infrastructure along the U.S. international borders. Rooted in economic theory and tested with historical data John T. Jones' study ...

The Internationalization of US Franchising Systems

The Internationalization of US Franchising Systems

1st Edition

By Ilan Alon
February 29, 2016

This book reviews both the environmental and organizational factors of international franchising, but focuses on the latter because environmental factors can not adequately explain why some franchisers within a particular industry internationalize. This study finds that organizational factors such ...

Capital and Coercion The Economic and Military Processes that Have Shaped the World Economy, 1800-1990

Capital and Coercion: The Economic and Military Processes that Have Shaped the World Economy, 1800-1990

1st Edition

By Jeffrey D. Kentor
January 20, 2016

This historical, cross-national research examines the global economic and military dynamics that have shaped the world-economy from 1820 to the present. It provides valuable insights into the nature of the global hierarchy, the relationship between economic and military power and the mechanisms ...

Webs of Resistence in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm Workers React to Organizational Transformation

Webs of Resistence in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm: Workers React to Organizational Transformation

1st Edition

By Jennifer Lynn Roney
June 25, 2015

This study examines how the shared cultural values of employees in a Polish firm influence management attempts top transform organizational practices in a newly privatized factory. By introducing a foreign management approach, Total Quality Management (TQM), the management of this factory presents ...

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