While international business research has provided insights into the cross-border strategies and operations of firms in the manufacturing sector, understanding about service sector internationalization is less developed. This is especially important in light of the recent, rapid rise of digital...

Strategic analysis in a global setting involves competition in industries that extend across national boundaries and among firms with different national home bases that may tap into strategic resources in more than one location. Such analysis involves multiple levels: the global order, the...

Public employment in India is often viewed as a source of job security. Hence, public employment seems to propel human security in India away from poverty and social exclusion. In the recent work, a significant attention has been accorded to understand how globalisation has impacted on job...

This chapter aims to examine the comparative economic performance of the United States versus China in the digital era. This chapter uses the Threshold Autoregressive (TAR) model method in comparing economic performance. The US economy was shaken quite significantly in 2008 due to the subprime...

Many commentaries on the present economic situation contend that Germany is increasingly "exporting jobs" rather than producing competitive goods and services. Can Germany continue to compete effectively with other business locations in the battle for mobile investment capital?

The increasing cross-border flows of information, trade, capital and technology have profoundly changed the macroeconomic fabric of nations. In the emergent borderless world macroeconomic theories and policy-making confront new challenges. This paper identifies and evaluates some of these...

The World Energy Conference will be held in Munich in mid-September. It will have to deal with diverse and complex problems of energy policy, for the seventies have presented tremendous challenges in the energy field. The control over oil-with 46% of the world supply still by far the most...