Many people in the vast rural areas of Africa lack access to financial services, and most commercial banks are not interested in moving into these areas due to their low income levels, lack of scale economies, and poor infrastructure. Also, few banks actually understand the most common economic...

This paper aims to analyze how the international process of competition among SMEs is increasingly based on the localization of various activities on a global scale, with particular reference to production, marketing and R&D. This rule also applies to firms from the Marche area, who are...

This paper assesses the sustainability of China's export-oriented growth over the medium to longer term. It shows that maintaining the current export-oriented growth would require significant gains in market share through lower prices in a range of industries. This, in turn, could be achieved...

Basierend auf einer qualitativen Analyse von CSR-Strategien in der Bekleidungsbranche wird der von Teilen der Managementtheorie und -praxis postulierte positive Zusammenhang zwischen CSR und Rentabilitaet kritisch hinterfragt. Der Beitrag formuliert die Hypothese, dass die UEberwindung sozialer...

L’évolution des Technologies de l’Information et des Communications (TIC) et leur intégration dans les services rendus par les prestataires de services logistiques (PSL) ont entraîné une réduction des coûts, et encouragé une meilleure communication entre les PSL et leurs clients au...

Even prior to the extreme volatility just observed, output growth volatility-following protracted decline-was flattening or mildly rising in some countries. More widespread was an increasing tendency from the mid-1990s for shocks in one country to transmit rapidly to other countries, creating...

This study develops a model based on Deutsch’s theory of cooperation and competition to clarify the supply chain relationships and interactions that contribute to customer satisfaction. Results of structural equation analyses suggest that organizations and suppliers and organizations and...

This paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the two regions, the decrease of these costs...