International Journal of Intercultural Relations 35 (2011) 49–60 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Intercultural Relations journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijintrel Cultural distance and expatriate job satisfaction Fabian Jintae Froese a,∗ , Vesa Peltokorpi b,1 a b Korea University Business School, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, 136-701, Republic of Korea HEC School of Management, Paris, 78351 Jouy en Josas, France a r t i c l e i n f
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Knowledge transfer at BMW: how much knowledge should business units of a firm share with one another B MW is renowned as a highly innovative and technologically advanced MNC. It relies heavily on its event and exhibition (E&E) units to introduce and represent its brand to various stakeholders and consumer markets throughout the globe. At BMW, E&E units are located as sub-divisions of marketing units, and play a significant role in implementing marketing strategies and communication
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UNIONISED PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS NICK CREABY-ATTWOOD A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Research undertaken in Newcastle Business School January 2010 !" Abstract This study investigates the interactions between the employment relationship and
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Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has been, and remains, one of the most powerful and influential ideas to have emerged in the field of business and management during the past twenty-five years. Policy makers at government level have drawn upon the idea in order to promote ‘high performance workplaces’ and ‘human capital management’. Within business corporations, the idea that the way in which people are managed could be one of, if not the most crucial factor in the whole array of competitivenessinducing
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analyses the stages in which a product is created from raw material until it’s finished, each stage adding value to the product. Gereffi’s ‘Global Commodity chains’ uses the old strategy chains and links them with their political and geographical context, adding a spatial and territorial dimension to the demand and supply in a market.________________________________________ In 1998 in their article “Breaking the Chains? A sector Matrix for Motoring”, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal and Karel
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brought about the growing trend to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds. With the increasing importance of the Vietnam market in the world economy, many international companies rushed and planned to enter Vietnam to explore business opportunities. International working teams in Vietnam are quite common these days. This has spurred
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MNCs, many already failed in doing business in China due to their management’s inability to manage their human resources appropriately. Taking the Chinese lead like the tiger economies in Asia, Bangladesh is also emerging as a dynamic and significant economic player in South Asia. Bangladesh is one of the pioneers in the region for economic liberalization. It has adopted the best policies of South Asia to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Doing business in Bangladesh is much easier than most
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...................................................... 2 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. 3 Chapter 1: Overview of Bilateral Economic Relations ....................................................................... 5 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Overview............................................................................................................................... 5 Trends in Bilateral
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use of resources, not the inner workings of real firms.” Similar to Coasian economics, procurement can be arranged through the market and regulated by the price mechanism with all of its attendant hidden costs to the procurement official, or the exchange transactions of procurement can be vertically integrated and ordered through the firm in a hierarchy where purchasing is integrated with the needs for the same products by other principals (and as we shall see, their agents). This theory is relevant
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in the successful implementation of desired strategy. However, while many of the basics principles are universal, much of the actual content and process are culture-contingent – a function of an individual’s needs, value systems, and environmental context 2- One problem in using content theories for cross-cultural research, such as that created by Maslow, is the assumption of their universal application. Because they were developed in the United States, even the concepts, such as achievement or
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