Journal of World Business articles from June 1997

Journal of World Business archives from June 1997

Generic differences between equity international joint ventures (EIJVs), international acquisitions (IAs) and international greenfield investments (IGIs): implications for parent companies.
June 22, 1997... The limitations of managers with respect to dealing with complex environments have been widely noted (Simon, 1982; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982). Perhaps these limitations cannot be better illustrated than in the case of international...

Protecting intellectual capital in international alliances.
June 22, 1997... The use of cooperative strategies has become a fact of life in many industries. Over the past decades, international interorganizational alliances have evolved from simple upstream-downstream divisions of labor to more complex patterns of...

Expatriate compensation in historical perspective.
June 22, 1997... In the early 1970s, I conducted a series of interviews for the National Foreign Trade Council of the heads of the international personnel activities of 25 of the largest and most successful United States-based multinationals. The primary...

Flexible working in Europe.
June 22, 1997... Around the world, the concept of flexible working practices,(1) the extent of such practices and the implications for practitioners and policy makers in the area, have been much discussed. These are critical issues for employers, trade unions...

Cultural implications of implementing TQM in Poland. (total quality management)
June 22, 1997... The globalization of organizations, partially brought on by rapid improvements in information flow capabilities, increased competition from emerging economies, and newly opened markets, has transformed organizational life (Thomas, 1996)....

A marketing perspective of the U.S. International Trade Commission's antidumping actions - an empirical inquiry.
June 22, 1997... Antidumping laws can have a profound effect on both domestic and international firms. These laws were designed to help domestic industries which are injured by unfair competition from abroad due to products being dumped on them. Such dumping...