Victory : an Island tale / Joseph Conrad ; edited by John Batchelor ; with an introduction by Tony Tanner

• Record Nr.: UNINA990009873060403321
• Autore: Conrad, Joseph <1857-1924>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986
• Descrizione fisica: XLI, 426 p ; 19 cm
• Collana: The worldʼs classics
• Disciplina: 823.912
• Locazione: BFS
• Collocazione: DIC CON 7
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The saints liberty of conscience in the new kingdom of Poland [[electronic resource] ] : Proposed for the consolation of the distressed brethren

• Record Nr.: UNISA996384443703316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Warsaw [i.e. London], : [s.n.], 1683
• Descrizione fisica: 4 p
• Soggetti: Dissenters, Religious - England; Church and state - England; Religious satire, English - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Caption title.; Actual place of publication given by Wing.; Imprint from colophon.; Imperfect: print showthrough with loss of print.; Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

In the hurricane's eye [[electronic resource] ] : the troubled prospects of multinational enterprises / / Raymond Vernon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778443503321
• Autore: Vernon Raymond <1913-1999.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0-674-04466-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.8/8
• Soggetti: International business enterprises; Host countries (Business) - Economic policy; Competition, International; Pressure groups
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 SETTING THE CONTEXT -- 2 TENSIONS IN THE BACKGROUND -- 3 INSIDE THE EMERGING ECONOMIES -- 4 INSIDE THE INDUSTRIALIZED ECONOMIES -- 5 THE STRUGGLE OVER OPEN MARKETS -- 6 RIGHTING THE BALANCE -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries. Such enterprises--a few thousand in number, including Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Siemens, Samsung, and others--now generate about half of the world's industrial output and half of the world's foreign trade; so any change in the relatively benign climate in which they have operated over the past decade will create serious tensions in international economic relations. The warnings of such a ; change are already here. In the United States, interests such as labor are increasingly hostile to what they see as the costs and uncertainties of an open economy. In Europe, those who want to preserve the social safety net and those who feel that the net must be dismantled are increasingly at odds. In Japan, the talk of "hollowing out" takes on a new urgency as the country's "lifetime employment" practices are threatened and as public and private institutions are subjected to unaccustomed stress. The tendency of multinationals in different countries to find common cause in open markets, strong patents and trademarks, and international technical standards has been viewed as a loss of national sovereignty and a weakening of the nation-state system, producing hostile reactions in home countries. The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.