Purpose – This paper aims to present a general review of the circumstances of America and Japan's rapid corporate, economic and industrial development in the twentieth century. Design/methodology/approach – The approach considered and evaluated how the circumstances of America and Japan's...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in sustaining global economies. The subject of SWFs has increasingly garnered the concerns of policymakers, market players and scholars for two main reasons: First, these funds represent the largest...

A review of the various models of New Product Development (NPD) process shows that although different approaches have been proposed, they are in fact all variants on a linear theme: some may include feedback loops, but they all essentially advocate that certain steps precede, or are preceded by,...