Franchising

An international perspective.

International management

strategic opportunities and cultural challenges

El poder presupuestario del Parlamento Europeo

«Quien controla el dinero se hace con el poder». Ésta ha sido la clave de la conducta del Parlamento Europeo desde que recibió en los años setenta el poder presupuestario de las Comunidades Europeas, al tiempo que éstas lograban la autonomía financiera respecto de los ...

State power and world markets

the international political economy

Doing business in emerging Europe

The transformation, which is unfolding in emerging European countries is a unique historic event. In several countries, the transition has been quite positive; most analysts anticipate continued real growth in the coming years. While opportunities in that region are numerous, doing business may prove, as ...

Les européens en 2003

Global governance

an architecture for the world economy

Globalization deeply affects economic structures and raises the issue of how governments should respond to new challenges. In this book, various ways of improving the institutional setup for global governance are discussed by renowned experts. The discussion focuses on further liberalizing international trade, preventing international ...

Sociología del sistema global

el impacto socioeconómico y político de las corporaciones transnacionales

El poder que decide sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el mundo actual está en medida creciente en manos de las corporaciones transnacionales que operan de manera casi incontrolable en todas las regiones de la Tierra. Como motor de la nueva clase capitalista transnacional ...

The Asian financial crisis

crisis, reform and recovery

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localized currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies, long considered "miracles", respond? How did the United States, Japan ...

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

Poverty and exclusion in North and South

essays on social policy and global poverty reduction

Since 1990 there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialized countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North ...

The economics of enlargement

In this volume, well-known scholars examine the challenges facing the EU at the start of the Eastern enlargement, whose first wave should be decided at the end of 2002 and implementation in 2004-2006. This enlargement is not to be underestimated as it involves in the ...

Perspectives on growth and poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may ...

An empirical investigation of stock markets

the CCF approach

An Empirical Investigation of Stock Markets: The CCF Approach attempts to make an empirical contribution to the literature on the movements of stock prices in major economies, i.e. Germany, Japan, the UK and the USA. Specifically, the cross-correlation function (CCF) approach is used to ...

El negocio de las armas

International economics

study guide

An evenhanded, unbiased introduction to the concepts and the latest theoretical and policy issues in international economics. Over 100 case studies#many new to this edition#back up the material with real-world examples and applications from economics and business. Appendices provide expanded coverage to enrich ...

Intégrations euro-méditerranéenne et stratégies economiques

Le libre-échange avec l'Europe impose aux Pays du Sud et de l'Est de la Méditerranée (PSEM) une révolution économique: passer d'une économie fermée, fortement encadrée par l'État, à une économie déprotégée, régulée selon une logique de marché ouvert. Les acteurs économiques ...

International business negotiations

Today there is hardly any company that can claim that it is not involved in international business (IB). A huge body of literature is available on international business, but there are very few publications on the most important aspect of IB, namely negotiations. The purpose ...

Qué es el desarrollo internacional

Desafíos

la Unión Europea ante su ampliación

Comp. Jorge Hay. Obra realizada por la Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE). Con las intervanciones de Gabriel Tortella, Federico Prades, Antoni Castells, Marta Espasa,...[et al].