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Increasing California Dairy Exports To Japan And South Korea, Kristina Soper
California Polytechnic State University
Increasing California Dairy Exports To Japan And South Korea, Kristina Soper
Dairy Science
The opportunities for increasing exports of California dairy products to the Japanese and South Korean markets were determined by identifying current obstacles in the California dairy industry and determining the characteristics of consumers in the Japanese and South Korean markets. As the largest milk-producing state and the supplier of 7.5% of total U.S. dairy exports, California’s economic activity greatly affects the rest of the nation and the world. The trends in the California dairy industry include increasing total milk production and per-cow milk production, a diminishing number of total dairy operations, and a rising number of large ...
Trade Liberalization, Economic Crises, And Growth, Rod Falvey, Neil Foster, David Greenaway
Bond University
Trade Liberalization, Economic Crises, And Growth, Rod Falvey, Neil Foster, David Greenaway
Business papers
Many economic reforms are undertaken during an economic crisis, but is a crisis a good time to undertake trade reform? We investigate whether an economic crisis at the time of trade liberalization affects a country's subsequent growth performance. We employ threshold regression techniques on five crisis indicators to identify the "crisis values" and to estimate the differential growth effects in the crisis and non-crisis regimes. Although trade liberalization in both crisis and non-crisis periods raises subsequent growth, we find that an internal crisis implies a lower acceleration and an external crisis a higher acceleration relative to the non-crisis regime.
Indigenous Credit Associations In Botswana: An Application Of Elinor Ostrom's Common-Pool Resource Analysis, Christopher A. Yates
Western Kentucky University
Indigenous Credit Associations In Botswana: An Application Of Elinor Ostrom's Common-Pool Resource Analysis, Christopher A. Yates
Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
In this paper I attempt to analyze and explain the important of certain indigenous credit agreements in Botswana. Rotating Savings and Credit Associations are agreements made by a group of people who create a communal fund which rotates around the group until each member had had access to the pooled resource. These agreements are informal and most commonly found in the poorer traditional sectors of Botswana’s economy.
Furthermore, I attempt to explain why these agreements can be best understood using Elinor Ostrom’s common-pool resource analysis. This framework explains why these agreements are so successful in creating a source ...
The Development Of A Social Psychological Model Of Strategy Implementation, James Carlopio, Michael Harvey
Bond University
The Development Of A Social Psychological Model Of Strategy Implementation, James Carlopio, Michael Harvey
Business papers
This paper focuses on the implementation of strategy in global organizations. The article expands this process by introducing the social-psychological principles of implementation, rather than only utilizing economically-rational command-and-control strategic implementation. It is the authors' contention that a social psychological orientation to strategic implementation is an appropriate model for global organizations.
Essential Skills For Leadership Effectiveness In Diverse Workplace Development, Szu-Fang Chuang
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Essential Skills For Leadership Effectiveness In Diverse Workplace Development, Szu-Fang Chuang
Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development
Globalization, technology advances, and diversity have greatly influenced international business and multinational management operations. Global managers cannot consistently apply traditional leadership when dealing with multiple cultural conflicts and managing international employees in the rapidly changed diverse workplace. This study is an initial effort to examine the new looks of leadership in the diverse workplace development and identify essential leadership skills demanded in a global context. Global leaders need to develop cultural awareness, global mindset, interpersonal skill and effective manager-employee relationship in facing the changes and challenges of the global market. Eleven essential leadership skills for the global leaders to promote ...
Inclusive Business: Using For-Profit Business Models To Address Global Poverty, Samuel James Conner
Liberty University
Inclusive Business: Using For-Profit Business Models To Address Global Poverty, Samuel James Conner
Senior Honors Papers
Due to the rise of globalization, modernization, and the Internet revolution, awareness of global poverty has expanded, making its eradication a chief goal of the global development community for the twenty-first century. Though corporations are often expected to participate in social and community development initiatives without regard for profits, this paper presents inclusive business as a way for businesses to profitably engage impoverished segments of society. Inclusive businesses seek to expand their consumer bases or strengthen their supply chains by moving into new markets among the poor that have limited access to global markets and remain largely untapped. The research ...
The Most Powerful Mouse In The World : The Globalization Of The Disney Brand, Michaela J. Robbins
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Most Powerful Mouse In The World : The Globalization Of The Disney Brand, Michaela J. Robbins
University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects
No abstract provided.
Middle Power Leadership And The Evolution Of The G20, Andrew Cooper, Jongryn Mo
Global Summitry Journal
Middle Power Leadership And The Evolution Of The G20, Andrew Cooper, Jongryn Mo
Global Summitry Journal
Global power is becoming more diffuse, smarter, and more asymmetric. In developing this extended argument, we make four points. First, the G20 Seoul Summit in November 2010 showed that the G20 is becoming increasingly embedded as the hub of global economic governance. Second, a strong G20 has positive attributes for global governance. Third, a main driving force for the ascent of the G20 has been and will continue to be middle power leadership. This article, therefore, will concentrate in the following on the role of Canada, Australia and South Korea but, there is some considerable potential for this role to ...
The Cameron Government And Gx Leadership, Hugo Dobson
Global Summitry Journal
The Cameron Government And Gx Leadership, Hugo Dobson
Global Summitry Journal
Despite the plaudits and high expectations, David Cameron’s role as a leader and innovator in Gx summitry appears overhyped. Upon closer inspection, his contribution to global summitry has lacked originality, vision, and coherence. This article will bring aspects of UK policy into relief by means of a close reading of the report Governance for Growth: Building Consensus for the Future. It will then account for these failings by relating the conclusions of this specific case study to the government’s overall foreign policy. The article focuses on the role of David Cameron and the Conservative Party specifically because, on ...
When Europe Hits Home: How Europeanization Triggers The Conflict Of Capitalism In The German System Of Corporate Control, Alexander El Alaoui
Claremont Colleges
When Europe Hits Home: How Europeanization Triggers The Conflict Of Capitalism In The German System Of Corporate Control, Alexander El Alaoui
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
Corporate Social Responsibility, Daniel H. Brown
Liberty University
Corporate Social Responsibility, Daniel H. Brown
Senior Honors Papers
This paper will address Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its far-reaching implications. Initially, the term CSR will be introduced and defined to provide the backbone for the following discussions. The paper will address the theoretical constructs of CSR, managerial strategies for implementing CSR and the application of stakeholder theory. The thesis is built upon Dr. Archie Carroll’s four-part CSR construct. In addition, international standards of CSR, with a focus on Nike, Inc.’s actions, will be evaluated.
Investment Prospectus: Concentrated Solar Power With Heliostat Tower And Molten Salt Storage, Kyle Herman
University of San Francisco
Investment Prospectus: Concentrated Solar Power With Heliostat Tower And Molten Salt Storage, Kyle Herman
Kyle Herman
This article delivers a preliminary overview of Concentrated Solar Technology. It offers data for investors and policy-makers in order to more properly understand and mitigate risks of this renewable energy.
Volume 2, Issue 1
Fordham University
Volume 2, Issue 1
Fordham Business Student Research Journal
"Special Purpose Acquisition Companies" - Matt Collins
"Underwriting Syndicates in BRIC Countries: Determinants of Syndicate Size and Member Selection" - Johnny Keaney and Daniel Sawyer
"Do Shareholders Penalize Bank Boards and Management for the Financial Crisis?" - Bryan James Matis
Female Authority In A Globalizing Market, Megan R. McCann
University of New Hampshire
Female Authority In A Globalizing Market, Megan R. Mccann
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast, Volume 16, Number 1, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Adam G. Walke
University of Texas at El Paso
Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast, Volume 16, Number 1, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Adam G. Walke
Departmental Papers (E & F)
No abstract provided.
Two Essays On The Degree Of Globalization Of A Firm: Measurement, Antecedents, And Consequences, Victor B. Marshall
Kennesaw State University
Two Essays On The Degree Of Globalization Of A Firm: Measurement, Antecedents, And Consequences, Victor B. Marshall
Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
In this research I address the question: how global should a firm be? Answering this question requires addressing several related questions. First, what is a global firm, and how does one measure how global a firm is? Second, which firm capabilities are antecedents to firm globalization? And finally, what is the relationship between firm globalization and performance?
I begin by examining Rugman’s (2003, 2005) and Asmussen’s (2009) measures for the globalization of a firm and develop a new, simplified, enhanced measure, the Degree of Globalization (DOG). DOG is an easy to interpret continuous ratio variable that is mathematically ...
New Silicon Valleys Or A New Species? Commoditization Of Knowledge Work And The Rise Of Knowledge Services Clusters, Stephan Manning
University of Massachusetts Boston
New Silicon Valleys Or A New Species? Commoditization Of Knowledge Work And The Rise Of Knowledge Services Clusters, Stephan Manning
Management and Marketing Faculty Publication Series
This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic cluster, in particular in emerging economies: KSCs are defined as geographic concentrations of lower-cost skills serving global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge services. Based on prior research on clusters and services offshoring, and data from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN), major properties and contingencies of KSC growth are discussed and compared with both high-tech clusters and low-cost manufacturing clusters. Special emphasis is put on the ambivalent effect of commoditization of knowledge work on KSC growth: It is proposed that KSCs attract most projects if ...
Emerging Capability Or Continuous Challenge? Relocating Knowledge Work And Managing Process Interfaces, Stephan Manning, Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Alexander Strathmann
University of Massachusetts Boston
Emerging Capability Or Continuous Challenge? Relocating Knowledge Work And Managing Process Interfaces, Stephan Manning, Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Alexander Strathmann
Management and Marketing Faculty Publication Series
This study examines interface management as a dynamic organizational capability supporting an increasing global distribution of knowledge work, based on an in-depth case of an automotive supplier. We show how local responses to experiences of task and interface ambiguity following the relocation of R&D processes may lead to a shift of organizational attention from ex-ante process design to continuous process and interface management. Findings suggest that flexible interface manager positions and partnership structures across locations facilitate local experimentation with effective transfer and handling of ambiguous and partially tacit tasks. This enhances the firm’s capacity to distribute an increasing ...
The Impact Of Corruption On Firm Tax Compliance In Transition Economies: Whom Do You Trust?, Anna Alon, Amy M. Hageman
Rollins College
The Impact Of Corruption On Firm Tax Compliance In Transition Economies: Whom Do You Trust?, Anna Alon, Amy M. Hageman
Faculty Publications
Tax compliance is an important issue for governments and the public alike. To meet public needs and fund public mandates, firms around the world are expected to comply with tax laws. Factors that are related to organizational (firm) tax compliance have not been sufficiently examined in the literature. Due to the increasing global influence of transition economies, factors associated with firm tax compliance in transition economies are particularly of interest. Based on a sample of over 5,000 firms from 22 former Soviet Bloc transition economies, we find that higher levels of corruption and higher levels of particularized trust (reliance ...
Attracting Fdi: The Chilean Government's Role Promoting Renewable Energy, Kyle Herman
University of San Francisco
Attracting Fdi: The Chilean Government's Role Promoting Renewable Energy, Kyle Herman
Kyle Herman
The development and implementation of renewable energy power plants is important for Chile in order to increase energy security, supply remote mines with electricity, and eventually decrease energy costs. The Chilean government has promoted renewable energy and attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to develop large-scale renewable energy projects. However, the policies cannot sufficiently attract FDI in unproven renewable energies such as Concentrated Solar Power, though it is proven elsewhere. This paper examines the Chilean government’s renewable energy policies, related government agencies, and the extent that these provide a stable backdrop for FDI in large-scale renewable energy projects. Following that ...
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