This article contains an examination of whether free trade coupled with the neoliberal principles of the Washington Consensus has been turned into a defensive strategy used by developed countries in order to maintain and perpetuate the division of labour in the global market between developed...

This paper examines political economy of MNCs in NIEs in East Asia. It focuses on the relationship between MNCs and the states in these countries. This study argues that MNCs played important role in the industrialization of some of these countries. But there are countries such as South Korea...

The paper examines the current problems with the IMF which include: 1) the institution is no longer fulfilling the functions it used to fulfil, nor is there a clear vision of any new functions for it; 2) due to a drastic pruning of its loan operations, it is not receiving enough revenue to cover...

Emerging markets in newly industrialised countries have caught the attention of managers of manufacturing companies facing heavy domestic and global pressure. Key barriers to the effective management of international manufacturing operations need to be identified. The same applies to the...

It is essential for a firm to create and capture value to justify its existence in competitive settings. In this context, first mover advantages in an emerging economy constitute an important topic of research in management because the order of entry of a firm to a new market influences its...

This article reports the results of a survey of 151 Canadian male consumers. In this study, consumer judgements of products varying in their level of technological complexity made in both highly and newly industrialised countries (NICs) were obtained in a multi‐attribute and...