Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Economic Environment -- Chapter 3. Political and Legal Environment -- Chapter 4. Cultural and Socioeconomic Environment -- Chapter 5. Establishing a Business in Guatemala -- Chapter 6. Marketing in Guatemala -- Chapter 7. Conclusions and Future Trends.

1 The Rule of Law in the Historical Context -- 2 The Institutional Change: Historical Background -- 3 Fundamental economic indicators of the Ottoman Economy -- 4 A comparison with European societies under the State Finance -- 5 Tax -farming contracts -- 6 Law and economics of tax-farming...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Domestic Institutions and the Political Economy of International Agreements: A Survey and Hypotheses -- Chapter 3. Domestic Institutions and the Ratification of International Agreements in a Panel of Democracies -- Chapter 4. Choosing to Be Constrained:...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Evolving Insight of Localization Theories into Cluster Existence -- Chapter 3. Theory of Clusters -- Chapter 4. Innovation and Innovation Partnership -- Chapter 5. Dynamic Development of Companies in an Industry Cluster -- Chapter 6. Conceptual and...

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country’s opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Point of Departure -- Chapter 3. Actor Specificities and the Types of Economic Organization -- Chapter 4. Transcending Borders and Institutional Dynamics -- Chapter 5. Conflating Capitalisms: Western MNCs in Latin America -- Chapter 6. The Action Situation...

Chapter 1: The importance of Dynamic Capabilities in the Post North African Market Survival of African SME International New Ventures (INVs) -- Chapter 2: Uncovering the role of institutional context for nascent entrepreneurial ventures -- Chapter 3: The interaction between family businesses and...

This book tells the story of capacity building in Europe with respect to technology transfer offices and organizations (TTOs). The traditional underdevelopment of technology markets in Europe has often been explained in terms of lack of capacity and skills among technology transfer...

‘This extremely timely publication addresses an important knowledge gap in this era of shifting economic power and global imbalances. Entrepreneurship is central to the growing success of the wider African economy and understanding the importance of trust within developing relationships can...

This book presents a variety of research papers on factories’ locations, city systems, and regional development. Consisting of three parts, it provides insights into the locational aspects of firms’ activities from a strategic perspective. Part 1 discusses decision-making in the context of...