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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458901003321

Titolo

Transnational corporations and local firms in developing countries [[electronic resource] ] : linkages and upgrading / / Michael W. Hansen and Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Copenhagen], : Copenhagen Business School Press, c2006

ISBN

87-630-9977-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HansenMichael W (Michael Wendelboe)

Schaumburg-MüllerHenrik

Disciplina

338.8/881724

Soggetti

International business enterprises

International business enterprises - Developing countries

Investments, Foreign - Developing countries

Country risk

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-386).

Nota di contenuto

""Transnational Corporations and Local Firms in Developing Countries � Linkages and Upgrading""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I Introduction and Conceptual Issues""; ""CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Analytical Framework""; ""Introduction""; ""A Conceptual and Analytical Framework""; ""The Structure and Content of Linkages""; ""The Effects of Linkages""; ""The Factors Shaping Linkages""; ""Methodology of the Study and Structure of the Book""; ""CHAPTER 2 Theories of Cross-Border Linkages""; ""Introduction""; ""A Development Perspective on Linkages""

""Linkages in the Development Literature""""Neoclassical Trade Economics""; ""The FDI Literature""; ""The Competitiveness Literature""; ""The Global Value Chain Perspective""; ""An International Business (IB) Perspective on Linkages""; ""A Perfect Competition Model""; ""The Transaction Cost Perspective""; ""The Resource-Based Perspective""; ""The Value Chain Perspective""; ""The Network Perspective""; ""Conclusion""; ""Part II Case Studies of Danish Firm Linkages""; ""CHAPTER 3 A Survey of Linkages between Danish Foreign Investors



and Local Firms in Developing Countries""; ""Introduction""

""A Profile of Danish Investments in the Five Countries""""Size and International Orientation of the Danish Investor""; ""Industry Orientation and Activity of Projects""; ""Motives behind Establishment""; ""The Nature of Linkages to Local Industry""; ""Non-Equity Linkages""; ""Comparing Equity and Non-Equity Linkages""; ""Means of Upgrading""; ""Upgrading of Non-Equity Partners""; ""Upgrading effects""; ""The Role of Governments in Linkage Formation""; ""Government Facilitation of Linkages""; ""Government Impediments to Linkage Formation""; ""Conclusion""

""CHAPTER 4 Donor Intervention and the Promotion of Inter-Firm Linkages in Ghana""""Introduction""; ""An Overview of the Analytical Framework""; ""The History of Private Enterprise Development in Ghana""; ""Methodology""; ""Results""; ""Profile of the Collaborating Companies""; ""Nature of Business""; ""Ownership""; ""Motives for Collaboration""; ""Challenges of Collaboration""; ""Performance""; ""Discussions""; ""Linkage and Knowledge Transfer""; ""Commitment and Collaboration""; ""Cultural Challenges in Inter-firm Collaboration""; ""Inter-Linkage Governance""; ""Third Party Intermediation""

""Implications""""Conclusions""; ""CHAPTER 5 Danish-South African Business Linkages""; ""Introduction and Aim""; ""The Nature of Danish-South African Business Collaborations""; ""History of Danish Businesses in South Africa""; ""Forms and Activities of Danish Firms in South Africa""; ""Motives and Location of Establishment""; ""Firm Linkages as a Means of Upgrading the Resources and Capabilities of Local Firms: A Danish Perspective""; ""Types of Linkages and Motives of Establishment""; ""Content of Linkages""; ""Firm Linkages as a Means of Upgrading: A South African Perspective""

""Danish-South African Distribution Relations � Forward Linkages""



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959573603321

Autore

Crawford Robert

Titolo

Bannockburns [[electronic resource] ] : Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-7486-8585-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

820.99411

Soggetti

Fictions

Literary works

Scottish -- Literature

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish literature - History and criticism

Bannockburn, Battle of, Scotland, 1314

English

Regions & Countries - Europe

Languages & Literatures

History & Archaeology

English Literature

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Imprint""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Writing Bannockburn""; ""2 Burns and Bannockburns""; ""3 Beyond Scotland""; ""4 Difficult Modern Scots""; ""5 Voting for a Scottish Democracy""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

How writers have imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 years  Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations peacefully united in 1707. Continuing up to the present



day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Pu