跨国巨头门口的“野蛮人”——双边创新

像迈瑞、药明康德这样明显弱势的中国公司,如何将国际巨头的力量还治其身,借势成长为巨头们眼中的“门口的野蛮人”？     

叩开跨国采购巨头的大门

随着中国采购市场的对外开放,跨国采购巨头像飓风一样登陆中国。沃尔玛的全球采购中心从香港搬到深圳,现在已经或有意在深圳设立全球采购配送中心的跨国公司近20家;联合利华也宣布在上海正式设立联合利华(中国)全球采购中心,预计今后5年联合利华在华的原材料出口额将超过5亿美元;麦德龙把上海和天津作为中国南北区域采购供应的枢纽;欧洲最大的非食品零售集团翠丰在上海也建立了采购中心。每当召开跨国零售集团国际采购会,各路“大买家”们都     

跨国经营中的文化融合

与经营特点相应,我国石化公司企业文化建设可谓“内外兼修”——我国石化公司在走出去的过程中学习和实践了国际通行的商务规则,积累了经验,锻炼了队伍,扩大了中国公司的国际影响力,提高了企业知名度和竞争力。特别是,在国际合作过程中丰富了、创新了、发展了我国石化公司的企业文化。     

银行门口的野蛮人

自从1984年1月1日起,中国人民银行开始专门行使中央银行的职能,将储蓄和信贷业务剥离由中国工商银行专业经营后,随着全国经济体制改革深化和经济高速发展,我国的银行业也开始了迅速的发展。     

贝发，这样与跨国巨头过招

厉玲：世界的市场已经一体化．越来越多质优价廉的中国商品打到了国际市场。但国外的同行会想方设法地来对付你。去年．宁波的贝发集团就因为一支小小的笔．与美国人打了一场大大的官司。今天来到我们节目现场的是贝发集团总裁邱智铭先生。下面请大家看一下相关材料。     

现代资本的“跨国哲学”

早在改革开放以前，一家老牌的跨国石油公司就在中国设立了办事处，观察中国社会与市场的变迁。20年后，中国每年吸引的国际直接投资(FDI)已经跃居世界前列(仅2005年就吸引了550多亿美元)，并且继续保持着快速增长的势头。国际资本在带来我们明显可见的资本、工作机会、生产技术、     

跨国采购 浙江“攀亲”

8月29日，欧尚采购说明会在浙江国际大酒店举行，此前，首场百安居家装饰材采购说明会已于7月25日在杭州举办。目前，主流的说法是，跨国零售集团作为适应现代市场流通的新型组织形式，拥有全球采购和销售网络，企业进入跨国采购系统，对浙江进一步扩大出口意义重大。     

跨国巨头的道德悖论

近日来，跨国巨头在中国被曝光了一连串令人非常遗憾的事件。面对公众广泛的质疑和谴责，他们必须用实际行动来回答，是否继续在商业道德和社会责任的层面，扮演变色龙的角色。     

Barbarians at the Gates: State Control of Global Mergers and Acquisitions

Cross‐border mergers and acquisitions are a major and often politicised component of foreign direct investment. Using data on individual transactions between 1970 and 2006, we examine the restrictions countries place on mergers and acquisitions, whether they use these controls to discriminate against foreigners seeking to acquire domestic firms, and what factors may predict the propensity to block foreign entry by this method of direct investment. Drawing partly on the existing literature, we test hypotheses that state intervention can be explained by characteristics of the countries whose firms are targeted by acquirers, including per capita income, democracy, trade exposure, market size, government share of national income and industrial structure. Although democracy, trade exposure and high government expenditure are associated with more stringent merger control laws, none of these attributes cause states to discriminate against cross‐border mergers. Countries with high per capita incomes, large markets and strict merger control laws, do use those regulations to discourage foreign acquirers. A second set of tests, based on observations of individual deals, rather than national aggregates, reveal that governments are particularly averse to foreigners acquiring firms that are bankrupt or in the defence sector. Overall, governments do treat cross‐border mergers and acquisitions differently, and use their merger control laws to discriminate against foreign investors, particularly with respect to certain types of transactions.     

Relationship Marketing at the Service Encounter: the Case of Life Insurance

This article details empirical evidence to suggest that, by and large, UK life insurance salespeople fail to be client-driven in their approach to customer service. Furthermore, there is insufficient attention given to the nature of exchanges between service provider and purchaser by these staffs. Therefore, by implication, there is a deficit in relationship marketing implementation at the service encounter and workbench level.     

Advancing Towards the Array of the World's Tourism Giants

The year 2001 is the first year ofChina's 10th five-year plan. A goodoutset becomes an important event thatattracts attention from China's all industrial sectors. At the beginning of theyear, two conventions associated withthe development of China's tourismwere held in succession.In January 2001, a nationwide convention on the tourism developmentwas held, which ended on January 9.On the following day, January 10, another nationwide conference on thetourism work was held.These two conference…     

When Oil Prices Encounter the Financial Crisis

The oil market is just like the sea;it is never quiet for a single moment.Facing the sea to observe the tide, we must behave calm in order to act correctly. The oil in the country is like the blood of the econo- my,and the oil prices in the economy is like a barometer. Under the mysterious veil,there are oil supply changes, the pattern of political restructuring...     

The Year 2001:Oil Giants at Home and Abroad Compete for Petrol Stations

PlansforPetroChinaandSinoPec,thetwobiggestoilcompaniesinChina,toaddnewpetrolstationshavebeendetermined.ThecompanyplanstoinvestRMB31.3billionbetweentheyear2000and2003inexpandingitsoilproductretailbusiness,SinoPecannouncedtothepublic,ofwhichRMB25.1billionwillbeusedtopurchaseexistingpetrolstations,andtobuildnewpetrolstationsinbigcitiesandalonghighways.TheremainingRMB6.2billionwillbeusedtobuyequipmentforoilstorageandtransportfromlocalgovernments,orforbuildingnewfacilities.SinoPecwantstoincr…     

When Oil Prices Encounter the Financial Crisis

The oil market just like the sea; it is never quiet for a single moment, Facing the sea to observe the tide,we must behave calm in order to act correctly.
The oil in the country The oil like the blood of the economy, and the oil prices in the economy is like a barometer. Under the mvsterious veil, there are oil supply changes, the pattern of political restructuring...     

Population Pessimism and Economic Optimism in the Asian Giants

The timing of China’s and India’s demographic transitions and the implications of alternative fertility scenarios are explored here using a global economic model incorporating full demographic behaviour and measures of dependency that accurately reflect the changing proportion of workers, rather than working‐aged, in the total population. The baseline scenario confirms that demographic change in India may yield significant gains to future real per capita income, resulting from a continuing sharp decline in its total dependency ratio. For China, these gains are largely in the past, although the positive contribution of declining youth and working‐aged dependency to future per capita income will continue to offset the negative impact of rising aged dependency through to 2030. Whilst a policy change to foster higher fertility rates and hence more rapid population growth in China might ultimately ease its dependency burden, in the short run it will increase it. In any case, such a course is contradictory to the goal of delivering improvements in real per capita income. For India, we confirm that the benefits of further fertility reductions, in the form of increased real per capita income, are substantial.     

Exploring globalization and marketing performance at the 2012 Global Marketing Conference at Seoul

This special issue of the Journal of Business Research features sixteen articles selected from papers presented during the third Global Marketing Conference held in Seoul, July 19–22, 2012, hosted by Korean Scholars of Marketing Science, European Marketing Academy, Japan Society of Marketing and Distribution, International Textile and Apparel Association, and Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy. The articles offer readers an interesting mix of topics and methods in complex and global marketing environments. They offer marketing practitioners new ideas and approaches for dealing effectively with the increasingly challenging marketing world and provide marketing researchers insights that may inspire future research.