Business Information Alert articles from March 2004

Business Information Alert archives from March 2004

Pan-European Union company information.
March 1, 2004... The Background On May 1, 2004, the countries of the European Union (EU) expanded to 25 members. Ten additional countries joined and with it will come all the requirements of EU business practice for their companies. This is a very good...

From the editor.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... We've had production problems over the last two months, so we are combining our March and April issues. In addition, we have articles that are timely in that the subjects are in the news just now, so we didn't want to wait to bring these to...

Islamic finance--a flickering prospect.(News and Trends)(Middle-East North Africa)
March 1, 2004... While "bubble" and other allusions to the 1990s dot-com euphoria are peppering news of the current Chinese investment boom, another part of the world is attracting the attention of the financial services industry. The Middle East, while still...

Some MENA/Islamic finance resources.(News and Trends)
March 1, 2004... The Arab Gateway is a useful portal that includes country profiles and economic statistics from the World Bank and the European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation (MEDEA). MEDEA also has details of trade...

Learn more about Islamic finance.(News and Trends)(iHilal Financial Services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... iHilal Financial Services provides clear explanations of the various aspects of Islamic finance. www.ihilal.com/learn.htm/ Euromoney offers courses in Islamic Finance at their place or yours, www.euromoneytraining.com/ index.html ...

Ireland--is the tiger tamed?(Librarian at Large)(economy)
March 1, 2004... The roaring Irish GDP growth (11.3 percent in 1999) softened to a purring 1.4 percent in 2003. (International Monetary Fund) www.imf.org When visiting family in South East Ireland this March, no one mentioned GDP or the country's holding of...

Learning in the Internationalisation Process of Firms.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Learning in the Internationalisation Process of Firms Anders Blomstermo & D. Deo Sharma, eds. 2003. Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. Hardcover. 293p. ISBN: 1-84064-662-4. $100. This text is a series of articles, mainly case studies. The...

Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age Heting Chu. 2003. ASIST Monograph Series. Information Today, Inc. Hardcover. 248p. ISBN: 1-57387-172-9. $44.50, $35.60 for ASIST members. Readers of this work will be treated...

Handbook of Research in International Marketing.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Handbook of Research in International Marketing Subbash C. Jain, ed. 2003. Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. Hardcover. 500p. ISBN: 184064-946-1. $150. This is an impressive book. A few words about how it came to be will help explain its...

Strategic Global Marketing: Issues and Trends.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Erdener Kaynak, ed. 2003. The Haworth Press, Inc. Softcover. 234p. ISBN: 0-7890-2017-3. $39.95. For more than 20 years, international managers have followed the debate of adaptation versus standardization. Nowadays, researchers appear to...

Multinational Strategic Management: an Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Multinational Strategic Management: An Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process Robert J. Mockler. 2003. The Haworth Press, Inc. Softcover. 442p. ISBN: 0-7890-1475-0. $49. 95. Multinational Strategic Management is a book of...