Protectionism During Recessions: Is This Time Different? by Joshua Tucker on January 30‚ 2013 in International Political Economy‚Newsletters Continuing our collaboration with newsletters from sections of the American Political Science Association‚ we present a selection from the current issue of the Political Economist‚ which focuses on the politics of trade policy during hard times. Below you will find a fantastic contribution by political scientist Soo Yeon Kim of the National University
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Case Study: Studer International Like many other companies reeling from the economic crisis‚ Studer International found itself trying to stay afloat and save the company from bankruptcy. Stemming from a late night meeting it was affirmed that the company was going to have to maintain strong leadership in order to get through layoffs and rally employee morale (Daft‚ 2011). The morning after the meeting‚ Dean Adams learned that a key manager‚ Sue Chan‚ had resigned from her post as chief security
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14Lesson 15: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY The Unity of Human Family: * The biblical accounts of creation bring out the unity of human family and teach that God of Israel is the Lord of history and of the cosmos. * God’s decision to make man in his image and likeness (cf. Gen 1 1:26-27) gives the human being a unique dignity that extends to all generations (cf. Gen. 5) and throughout the entire Earth (cf. Gen 10). * (indicated in the book of Genesis) Human being was not created in isolation
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International economics Kap1 International trade * Globalization * Many definitions * The process that makes trade‚ transport‚ transactions‚ exchange of information and mobility across national (and other) borders and across long distances‚ cheaper and easier. * Globalization is long run trend for all societies‚ * Technological globalization * Political globalization * Size Matters: The Gravity Model Technology * Technology for transport
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impossible without a firm grasp of geography‚ geopolitics‚ globalization and small state verses large state. State borders have established a major topic in the tradition of political geography. Border analysis has focused on the international scale‚ since international borders provide possibly the most explicit manifestation of the large-scale connection between politics and geography. The locations of small countries are sometimes at a disadvantage to large countries because of their geographical
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INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS <INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION> STUDENT NAME : HASHINI KUMARAGE STUDENT ID NUMBER : T31200720 SUPERVISOR : Mrs. KANTHI BASNAYAKA Student needs to print this cover sheet and attach on the assignment/project report before submission to the respective tutor Name of Student: Hashini Kumarage Auston / UNI ID: T31200720 Date of Submission: 07/01/2014 Name of Lecturer: Mrs. KANTHI BASNAYAKA Program/ Module: A244BUS INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Assignment:
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MARKETING PROBLEMS IN ESTABLISHING AND MANAGING INTERNATIONAL MARKETING CHANNELS 1. The procedure used in selecting middlemen:- Identification of a middleman to handle a company’s merchandise is a major problem in managing international marketing channels. To minimize on this problem the following procedures may be used. •Productivity/volume the larger the volume he can hold the better. •Financial strength of the channel‚ the stronger the channel in terms of finances the better because
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Total No. of Pages: 03 Time: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 75 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING (Specialization: Marketing) SUBJECT CODE – INSTRUCTIONS: i) You have to attempt the questions as per the instructions for this paper. ii) Carefully note the marks for each
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Diebold For much of its 144 year history‚ Diebold Inc. did not worry much about international business. As a premier name is bank vaults and then automated teller machines (ATMs)‚ the Ohio based company found that had its hand full focusing on U.S. financial institutions. The company first started to sell ATM machines in foreign markets in the 1980s.Wary of going it alone‚ Diebold forged a distribution arrangement with the Dutch multinational electronics company Phillips N.V.Under
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In H. Kent Baker and Leigh A. Riddick (eds.) Survey of International Finance‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2012 2 A Primer on Exchange Rate Behavior JAMES R. LOTHIAN Distinguished Professor of Finance‚ Fordham University M A R K P. T A Y L O R Dean‚ Warwick Business School; Professor of Finance‚ University of Warwick Introduction An exchange rate is the relative price of one country’s money in terms of another. What is being exchanged as money has varied over time with the particular
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