Business clusters

an international perspective

Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley. Using evidence from high and low income economies and detailed case-studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book is aimed at students of business ...

Doing business in 2005

eliminando obstáculos al crecimiento

Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared ...

Doing business with Russia

a guide to investment opportunities and business practice

At a time when the global economy has experienced a slowdown, Russia's GDP has expanded for 5 consecutive years with growth estimated at 6.6 per cent in 2003. The leadership of President Putin has brought the promise of a period of stable growth ...

Manual del transportista

Este Manual estudia esencialmente y con extensión los modos de transportes convencionales: marítimos, ferroviarios, carreteras, aéreos, vías navegables, multimodales, y de forma más concisa los transportes continentales: oleoductos, gasoductos, cintas transportadoras, energía eléctrica, atómica, eólica y nuevas energías. Contempla también las referencias legales y regímenes ...

The next global stage

challenges and opportunities in our borderless world

Globalization is a fact. You can't stop it; it has already happened; it is here to stay. And we are moving into a new global stage. A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday's nation-based economic world. To succeed ...

Top pay and performance

international and strategic approach

Top Pay is an extremely topical and contentious area and compensation and benefits is a well-defined area of interest in HR. This book investigates how the field of top pay developed? Why is there so much interest in top pay? Why governments take such an ...

Comercio internacional compensado

(normas y estrategias empresariales)

Si bien la compensación comenzó a utilizarse en Europa con una clara finalidad de recuperación económica, en el momento presente ha desarrollado fórmulas de cooperación entre empresas, entre empresas y Gobiernos, o entre Gobiernos, capaces de adaptarse a las cambiantes situaciones políticas y económicas que ...

Made in China

what western managers can learn from trailblazing chinese entrepreneurs

Executives worldwide have studied and emulated U.S. entrepreneurs from Bill Gates to Michael Dell. Yet, we know next to nothing about the pioneers who are reshaping the world's second largest economy: China. In the face of murky ownership structures, inconsistent access to capital ...

The rise of spanish multinationals

european business in the global economy

Since 1992, Spanish companies in a variety of industries have acquired a prominent presence in the global economy, especially in Latin America and Europe. Companies such as Telefónica, Banco Santander, Repsol-YPF and Inditex (the owner of the Zara brand) have catapulted themselves to become major ...

Built for growth

expanding your business around the corner or across the globe

"A valuable primer on all aspects of retail: brand, location, people, finance, property management, expansion strategy, and long-term thinking. Rubinfeld understands the difficulty of the small guy getting started and the big guy keeping the brand fresh. Even an experienced retailer will want to stop ...

El marco de los negocios en China

aspectos prácticos

El auge de China como potencia económica mundial, es uno de los fenómenos globales de mayor importancia en el presente siglo. Sin embargo, China presenta una serie de peculiaridades que es necesario conocer por todo aquel que desee realizar negocios en el país: la existencia ...

La empresa multinacional

gobernanza y responsabilidad social

ÍNDICE: Prólogo.- 1. Inversión directa en el exterior y alianzas internacionales.- 2. Internacionalización de la producción. Estrategias de integración.- 3. Estrategia y estructura de la empresa multinacional.- 4. La promoción de inversiones exteriores.- 5. El ámbito cultural de la empresa multinacional.- 6. La responsabilidad social ...

El área del libre comercio euromediterránea

hitos conseguidos y perspectivas futuras = The euromediterranean free- trade area : objetives and targets ahead

La obra consta de tres partes. Una parte introductoria en la que se ofrece un balance de los 50 años de cooperación y 10 años de asociación de la Unión Europea con los países del Sur y Este del Mediterráneo. La segunda integra un interesante ...

Operativa y práctica del comercio exterior

Este libro es una completa inroducción para usuarios sin formación previa en la materia que presenta los conocimientos y técnicas fundamentales a aplicar en la gestión de un departamento de exportación.

Estrategia y gestión del comercio exterior

Ofrece una visión integrada de la dirección comercial internacional y aporta una formación rigurosa y completa, a usuarios ya familiarizados con las técnicas básicas, para permitirles identificar las variables que intervienen en la toma de decisiones en materia de negocios internacionales.

La contratación internacional

INDICE: La negociación de contratos internacionacionales. El marco de la contratación internacional. Las condiciones de entrega internacional de mercancías y los incoterms 2000. La compraventa internacional: Parte General. La compraventa internacional: recepción de la mercancías, aspectos financieros y jurídicos. El contrato de agencia comercial internacional ...

International finance

The markets and financial management of multinational business

In this fourth edition, Maurice Levi successfully integrates both the micro and macro aspects of international finance. The author explores managerial issues and focuses on problems that arise from financial trading relations between nations, whilst covering key topics such as: · organisation of foreign exchange markets ...

Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Economic development finance

Economic Development Finance is a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of private, public, and community financial institutions, policies and methods for financing local and regional economic development projects. The treatment of policies and program models emphasizes their applications and impact, key design and management issues, and ...