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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"International Business studies"”.
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Developing intercultural competence of faculty and staff members at Hanze International Business School
… competence is seen as a necessary skill for international business studies graduates. Can faculty and staff members at international business studies programs improve their intercultural competence by participating in a series of intercultural learning activities? In this study 10 faculty and …
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An investigation into the factors underpinning the early rapid internationalisation of young South African high technology firms: A resource based approach
This thesis investigates the internationalisation of South African Early Rapidly Internationalising Small Firms (ERISFs). Although there has been a shift towards incorporating young small firms from knowledge intensive industries within International Business studies, research on such firms from …
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Two Essays On Cross-Country Differences In Corporate Dividend Policies
… The first essay is forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies, a top-tier journal in international business. In the second essay, we combine the two major agency relationships in corporate governance into one picture and argue that firm insiders balance their dividend policies …
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Internacionalização: uma análise comparativa entre as características das pesquisas nacionais e internacionais publicadas no período de 2002 a 2011
Competition leads businesses to seek out ways to promote their long-term survival. Internationalizing, or expanding their businesses towards foreign countries is one of these ways. Concurrently, scientific research has increased in order to investigate this process. This research paper aims to make …
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Enforcing Global Strategies in Subsidiaries of Highly Decentralized Multinational Corporations. The Role of International Sales Managers
… contemporary research subject in the field of international business studies. This case study of sales and marketing organizations in five international subsidiaries of a highly divisionalized corporation illustrates how the capabilities and the willingness to adopt and pursue global strategies …
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Entrepreneurship: a means to poverty reduction in rural northern Ghana?
Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Consequently, over recent decades different strategies and programmes such as the Millennium Development Goals have been employed to reduce poverty and to improve the quality of …
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Management of language diversity in international supply chain relationships of UK SMEs
… language has claimed a place in the field of international business studies, the vast majority of research in this area has focused on language management practices in multinational organisations, and has therefore largely ignored the question of how small organisations cope with linguistic …
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The True Nature of Collaboration: what role does practice play in collaboration between designers and African craft producers?
… through making with two Cape Town based, craft businesses - Imiso Ceramics and Kunye - investigating the interactions that occur between the collaborators. A critical contextual review reveals the majority of such partnerships are instigated from the top down with an emphasis on product …