Mercosul: Its Successes and Failures During Its First Two Decades

ABSTRACT

In this article, we consider the formation of the Common Market of the Southern Cone (Mercosur) as the outcome of an integration process where its two largest member countries (Brazil and Argentina) pursue industrialization objectives. The article considers the effects of Mercosur in terms of the promotion of economic efficiency and in terms of the promotion of new inflows of foreign direct investment. The article highlights that economic asymmetries between the two largest member countries have been a major obstacle in fostering economic integration in the Southern Cone region.     

电视购物之成败

<正>CTR(央视市场研究股份有限公司)是一家中国最大、最具权威的市场研究公司。网络调查作为未来市场研究的主要途径,CTR也致力于发展这一新兴的研究方式,为中国的企业提供更为客观和高效的数据。CTR于2006年11月使用天会皓闻网上调查平台进行自主调查,了解18岁以上的人群对于电视购物的消费情况和看法,此次调查中我们发现。     

Introduction to Future Special Issue

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Culture Comes First: Introduction to the Special Issue

The Special Issue “Culture Comes First” attracted fifty five submissions offering a diverse collection of contributions from scholars within the domain. The Editorial team reviewed many interesting papers and the result of the process of review and revision by the team is nine papers and one commentary. The papers in this special topic issue include a wide variety of topics with application to scholars and management practitioners and aspects of these papers are summarized in this introduction. The introduction offers some thoughts about the process of scholarly publication and briefly discusses some cultural facets of current business training and the practice of management.     

Big Data and Intelligent Decisions: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Revisiting an Evasive Concept: Introduction to the Special Issue on Competitiveness

The term competitiveness stems from the analysis of firms and is usually thought to be well defined at the firm level. Today, however, the notion competitiveness has become a prominent concept in the assessment of countries, regions and locations. The competitive advantage of nations and the competitiveness of locations have become important topics in economic policy. Interest in this field has been notably stimulated by the work of Michael Porter. Although the diversity of approaches presented in this issue may appear large to the reader, it is in reality dwarfed by the multiplicity of concepts, articles and books which have been written in reference to the term competitiveness. The vagueness of the general term, the lack of theoretical background, implicit preferences and prejudices, and finally the scope of policy recommendations made in reference to this term have induced outstanding researchers to warn that the term competitiveness of a nation could be dangerous, obsessive, elusive or meaningless.¹ The articles presented in this volume share some elements of this critique, but also demonstrate that research is being continued, and that it is indeed relevant to the design and evaluation of economic policy, most notably, the so-called Lisbon Strategy of the European Union.