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The Replication of Retail Fashion Formats into Foreign Countries A Qualitati…
Christoph Schröder does one of the first attempts to analyze format transfers within the scope of different strategies, format elements, countries and success with focus on the fashion industry. Three distinct format transfer strategies are identified. The empirically observed design of format elements supports and extends the existing research. Fashion firms standardize their “Retail cultur…
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- 978-3-658-07541-5
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Family Businesses in Transition Economies Management, Succession and Interna…
This book presents the reader a comprehensive understanding of the development of family business in transitional economies. Throughout eastern Europe, post-Communist countries transitioning to market-based economies are obtaining a variety of results due to diverse policy approaches. Expert contributions in this book draw from a wealth of information in this context and include thought-prov…
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- 978-3-319-14209-8
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- XXIV, 349
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Universities, Rankings and the Dynamics of Global Higher Education Perspecti…
Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years. It offers new insights into the power and limits of league tables, a key element of globalized higher education that can be deplored but hardly ignored. Case studies from Asia, Europe and North America are…
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- 978-1-137-46999-1
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Understanding the Dynamics of Global Inequality Social Exclusion, Power Shif…
Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of inequality not only from different regional perspectives, covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and Northern America, but also …
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- 978-3-662-44766-6
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Local Firm Upgrading in Global Value Chains: A Business Model Perspective
Jan Hauke Holste analyzes how a company can innovate and change its business model to the degree that it can climb up the value chain. His research synthesizes a combination of the global value chain and the business model literature to create a new framework of local firm upgrading. The findings of an empirical test of the model indicate that local firms are more than just a link within a glob…
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- 978-3-658-09768-4
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Educating generation next : young people, teachers and schooling in transition
Explores the challenges faced by young people in this environment as they transition from school to work and asks how well young people are prepared for the contemporary labour force during their school years. Is the current industrial model of schooling capable of preparing young people for working life of the 21st century?
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- 9781137526397
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- ix, 207 pages ; 23 cm
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- 370.113
Education, Globalization and the Nation
Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
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- 978-1-349-55932-9
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- X, 224
Educating generation next : young people, teachers and schooling in transition
Explores the challenges faced by young people in this environment as they transition from school to work and asks how well young people are prepared for the contemporary labour force during their school years. Is the current industrial model of schooling capable of preparing young people for working life of the 21st century?
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Global Business Strategy Global Business Strategy
This book presents theories and case studies for corporations in developed nations, including Japan, for designing strategies to maximize opportunities and minimize threats in business expansion into developing nations. The case studies featured here focus on Asia, including China and India, and use examples of Japanese manufacturers. Five case studies are provided, including Hitachi Construct…
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- 978-4-431-55467-7
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- XVII, 259
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- 650 MUT g
Education, globalization and the nation
Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union
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- 9781137460349
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- x, 224 pages ; 22 cm
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- 370.9
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