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from all over the world and their research base extends beyond the traditional American research literature. Although many autho ...
most chapters have been written from scratch, while the remaining chapters (Chapters 1, 5 and 14) have been updated. In doing so ...
Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on integration processes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), examining the potentiall ...
The fourth and final part of this book (Industrial Relations: a Comparative and International Perspective) looks at the collecti ...
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PART 1 Internationalization: Context, Strategy, Structure and Processes ...
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1 Internationalization and the International Division of Labour Anne-Wil Harzing 1 Introduction 9 2 Statistics on internationali ...
nations. We will then go one step further to the global level, when, in Section 6, we will look at the (new) international divis ...
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 1950–63 1963–73 1973–90 1990–01 Trade Production contributed approximately $18.5 trillion to world sales in 2001 ...
TABLE 1.1 Absolute and relative comparative cost advantages This theory takes us back to the founding father of modern economics ...
David Ricardo (1772–1823) showed that even if a country had no absolute cost advantages, it would still be able to grow more wea ...
labour force (for example, Western nations). Other countries have relatively little capital and a large labour force (for exampl ...
the scale of production increases, the average cost per product decreases. These economies of scale might appear in production, ...
country will move about within the country itself, but not across the national borders. According to the H–O theorem, internatio ...
place in the country where the product is being developed, for example in the United States (in principle the PLC theory pertain ...
company. The range of advantages, which can be both tangible and intangible, can be very wide. According to Rugman (1987) they c ...
knowledge will either leak out, making further licences difficult, or be used in such a way that it damages the good name of the ...
a theory of national comparative and competitive advantage must meet the following criteria: It must explain why firms from som ...
factors such as land and, specifically, labour and capital, Porter goes much further. He agrees with them with respect to labour ...
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