Development of Production Management- from Site to Network Optimisation -- A Model for Network Design -- Clarification of the Initial Strategic Situation -- The Network Configuration -- Network Coordination -- Analysis and Design of Networks in Practice -- Outlook and Summary.

How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that...

Preface -- Introduction -- Structural change in employment in Puerto Rico -- Labour market of Puerto Rico and its relationship with foreign direct investment, exports and gross domestic product -- Economic incentives for attracting and retaining FDI -- The pharmaceutical industry and R&D --...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

This book offers new quantitative insights into how South African economy reacts to external economic shocks. The analysis includes focusing on economic growth and financial spill over, effects of capital inflows, contrasting the stock market price returns and volatility on economic growth and...

This volume, based on a series analysis using up-to-date econometric technique, systematically investigates the role that exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have played in China's development process, and questions the received wisdom that exports and FDI are always an unalloyed...

This book is a must read for all those interested in building successful global brands and for all those interested in China and Chinese companies - A strange combination? No. Based on extensive research and interviews with Lenovo, Haier, TCL, Hisense and key decision makers worldwide, Sandra...

Bezugsrahmen einer Kundeninteraktionskompetenz in Industriegütermärkten -- Konzeptualisierung einer Kundeninteraktionskompetenz: Interaktions- und Lernorientierung -- Empirische Validierung einer Interaktions- und Lernorientierung -- Empirische Überprüfung der Erfolgswirksamkeit einer...

Die Bereitschaft, komplexe Waffensysteme künftig über multinationale Einkaufskooperationen zu beschaffen, erfordert den Auf- und Ausbau der dafür notwendigen Managementkompetenz. Deshalb werden aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln die grundlegenden Zusammenhänge und Herausforderungen in...