changes in FDI flows, interest rates (monetary policy), exchange rates and the unemployment rate. The effect of political risk on overall country risk is also studied. Key words: country risk, country beta model, risk modeling 1. Introduction Globalization and increasing financial unification has led to a rapid growth of international lending, foreign direct and institutional investment. With this, economies across the globe are increasingly becoming interdependent and developments in one part of
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Mihir A. Desai* Harvard University and NBER ABSTRACT This paper describes the International Finance course at Harvard Business School for instructors considering adopting the associated material. The paper begins by arguing that the forces of globalization have fundamentally changed the scope and activities of firms thereby altering the practice of finance within these firms. As a consequence of an increasing reliance on tightly-integrated foreign operations, a parallel world of finance has been
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State Sovereignty and Regional * Institutionalism in the Asia Pacific Shaun Narine Working Paper No. 41, March 2005 * A revised version of the paper is scheduled to be published in The Pacific Review later this year. Recent Titles in the Working Paper Series No. 28 The Revolution in Military Affairs and Its Impact on Canada: The Challenge and the Consequences, by Andrew Richter, March 1999. No. 29 Law, Knowledge and National Interests in Trade Disputes: The Case of Softwood Lumber
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key role in this economic development. Yet to date, little is known about entrepreneurship in emerging economies. This introductory article to the special issue on entrepreneurship in emerging economies examines the literature that exists to date in this important domain. It then reviews the research that was generated as part of this special issue on this topic. The article concludes with a discussion of the critical future research needs in this area. Introduction The quantity and quality of
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Human Resource Development International ISSN: 1367-8868 (Print) 1469-8374 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhrd20 Connection, value, and growth: how employees with different national identities experience a geocentric organizational culture of a global corporation Maria S. Plakhotnik, Tonette S. Rocco, Joshua C. Collins & Hilary Landorf To cite this article: Maria S. Plakhotnik, Tonette S. Rocco, Joshua C. Collins & Hilary Landorf (2015) Connection, value, and
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link exists between organizational culture and work life balance. In essence, we were looking to see if organizational culture affected work life balance. Moreover, research on this relationship is limited and it was difficult to find previous literature on the subject. We considered an UAE based bus assembly firm named Hafilat to test our hypothesis that work life balance could be affected by organizational culture. Our findings supported the argument that organizational culture can affect a
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| | Researching Business Data. Assignment 1 Individual Report. Topic: Tourism figures from different EU country Student Name: Ilesh Patel Student ID: 21278596 Seminar Group: B Seminar Tutor: Mr. Yehia Nawar INTRODUCTION Tourism is repadily growing industries in the worlds and some of the country econamiclay dipands on turism, just like in Europe Switerzerland, Murituse, Maldive and many others in the world, being service inderstry turism also provide many jobs for local
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Factors affecting TQM implementation: an empirical study in Tunisian firms Senda WALI[1] University of Sfax, Tunisia Wali_sonda@yahoo.fr Tel: 00 216 97 53 31 12 Fax: 00 216 74 24 36 19 ABSTRACT The level of awareness of TQM has increased considerably over the last few years. Different sets of organizational requirements are prescribed by quality management academics and practitioners for the effective practice of TQM. However, these requirements
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across the organization by standardising ways of working while simultaneously recognising and assimilating best practices from its diverse operations and people. It does this by embedding its philosophy of the CEMEX Way for acquisitions, operational reviews, and its learning and development programs for leaders and managers. Company overview CEMEX, founded in Mexico in 1906, is the world’s largest building supplier and third largest cement producer. Based in Monterrey, the company started as a local
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Research Objectives 4 1.6 Research Questions 5 1.7 Aims of the Study 5 1.8 Significance of the Research 5 1.9 Phases of the Dissertation 6 1.10 Conclusion 7 Chapter Two: Literature Review 2.1 Introduction 8 2.2 Concept of Productivity 8 2.2.1 What is Productivity? 9 2.2.2 Importance of Productivity 11 2.2.3 Measurement of Productivity 11 2.3 Productivity
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