1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975189803321

Titolo

The multinational enterprise in developing countries : local versus global logic / / edited by Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, and Ali Taleb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

9786612732768

9781136938597

1136938591

9781136938603

1136938605

9781282732766

1282732765

9780203847053

0203847059

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development economics ;v. 80

Altri autori (Persone)

MolzRick

RatiuCatalin

TalebAli

Disciplina

338.8/8191724

Soggetti

International business enterprises - Developing countries

Industrial policy - Developing countries

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Local-global view of multinationals in developing countries; 1 Organizational and institutional rationalities and Western firms in emerging countries: Proposal for a local/global analytical model; 2 Strategy implementation in emerging countries: Three theoretical approaches; Part II: Theoretical considerations; 3 West meets Southeast: A cultural fit of goal setting theory to the Filipino workforce; 4 Emergent global institutional logic in the multinational corporation

5 Political strategies of multinational enterprises in emerging economies: A theoretical model6 Business groups and corporate



governance in emerging markets; Part III: Empirical perspectives; 7 Entrepreneurship, firm size and knowledge transfer to developing and emerging countries; 8 A comparison of foreign acquisitions in the Brazilian electricity industry: What determines success?; 9 The behavior of multinational enterprises in developing countries: Having a sense of the "good" through "smart partnerships" in Malaysia

10 Environment, strategy and leadership patterns as determinants of firm performance: The case of a developing countryPart IV: Emerging global roles of local firms; 11 Multinationals and corporate environmental strategies: Fostering subsidiary initiative; 12 Emerging multinationals from developing countries: Would their exposure to eclectic institutional conditions grant them unique comparative advantages?; 13 Conclusion: The challenges of developing competitive advantage from local and differential logics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A key distinctive feature of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) as organizations resides in the fact that they span across borders. This exposes them to dissimilar and often unfamiliar social and economic conditions as they venture in foreign countries. MNEs from industrialized economies that are active in developing countries and emerging markets face particularly challenging hurdles due to both economic and institutional discrepancies between their home and host countries.This book focuses on the uneasy interaction between the traditional logics of developing countries and the



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964809203321

Autore

Dal'bo Francoise

Titolo

Trajectoires geodesiques et horocycliques / / Francoise Dal'Bo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Les Ulis [France], : EDP Sciences, 2007

ISBN

9786611728687

9781281728685

1281728683

9782759801473

2759801470

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Savoirs actuels. Mathematiques

Disciplina

516.4

Soggetti

Geodesics (Mathematics)

Trajectories (Mechanics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table des matières; Avant-propos; I. Géométrie des groupes fuchsiens; II. Exemples de groupes fuchsiens; III. Dynamique topologique du flot géodésique; IV. Groupes de Schottky et dynamique symbolique; V. Dynamique topologique du flot horocyclique; VI. Point de vue lorentzien; VII. Des trajectoires pour approcher les nombres; Bibliographie;

Sommario/riassunto

This work offers an introduction to the topological dynamics of geodesic and horodesic flows for the quotients of a tangent sphere bundle of the Poincaré half-plane model by a Fuchsian group T.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911042226103321

Autore

Furumark, Arne

Titolo

The chronology of Mycenaean pottery / by Arne Furumark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stockholm, : Kungl. Viterhets historie och antikvitets Akademien, 1941

Descrizione fisica

155 p. : ill ; 30 cm.

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

ARCH. V 031 4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia