Joint implementation: a promising instrument for climate protection

The first Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened the path for a new policy instrument to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. It instituted a pilot phase for international emission offsets, “Joint Implementation”, open for all signatories to the Convention. During the pilot phase, however, emission reductions achieved abroad cannot be credited to domestic emission targets. By 2000, a decision on crediting and the final structure of the Joint Implementation regime must be taken by the Conference of the Parties.     

Joint remedies

Glucosamine and chondroitin supplements appear to ease arthritis symptoms and possibly fight the disease itself. We tested 19 national products.     

Joint Venture Conflict: The Case of Thai International Joint Ventures

ABSTRACT

International Joint Ventures (IJVs) have become an important means of market entry for many firms, particularly those seeking entry into Asia (Lin and Germain, 1999 Lin, X. and Germain, R. 1999. Predicting international joint venture interaction frequency in U.S.-Chinese ventures. Journal of International Marketing, 7(2): 5–23. [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). As such, it is important to understand what causes some IJVs to fail and others to succeed. This study examines the relationship between partners' needs, commitment, control, and conflict between the IJV partners in a developing country of South East Asia. The findings revealed that IJV inter-party conflict was significantly influenced by all three variables, namely, partners' needs, commitment and control thereby providing support for previous research in a different national setting.     

Joint European development strategy

On July 27,1971, the Commission of the European Communities has submitted a memorandum on a Joint European development policy to the governments of the EEC’s member states. It has thereby called for a beginning of the discussion on cooperative action by the Communities also in the field of development policies.     

Joint Ventures in Russia

There is an extensive literature on the role of joint ventures in international business. Most of this has focused on the involvement of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in establishing joint ventures in developing countries. Recent political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe have focused attention on joint venture opportunities in ex-centrally planned economies, including opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper examines the experiences of two small, family owned Scottish companies in establishing joint ventures in the largest of the East European countries, the Russian Federation. The cases highlight the important strategic and managerial issues involved in planning, negotiating and implementing joint ventures with Russian partners. Sensitivity to the business development needs of the host organization, the establishment of good personal relationships and flexibility are crucial to the joint venture process.     

Leaders＇ Meeting：Chambers of Commerce and Industry of China,India and Russia

From November 5 to 7,Vice Chairman of the CCPIT,Mr.Yu Ping led a delegation attending the meeting of leaders of the chambers of Commerce and Industry of China,India and Russia.During the meetings, Yu pointed out that the successful holding of the 1st China-India-Russia Entrepreneurs Conference in New Delhi, capital of India in December, 2007, has a remarkable influence on the business circles of China, India and Russia, whose ministers of foreign affairs spoke highly of the conference＇s significant role in enhancing exchanges and cooperation between the enterprises and suggested it be made regular when they met in Yekaterinburg,     

Joint Venture of Wholly-Own:

American advertising agencies have been rapidly expanding their operations abroad in recent decades. During this time, they have taken adtvantage of foreign experitise by acquiring local agencies or establishing joint venture arrangements. In other cases they have gone abraod by boldly setting up their own operations. This 15 agency - 344 subsidiary survey of agencies' abilities and performances shows that in general, wholly-owned subsidiaries have outperformed joint venture arrangements in terms of market rankings and total billings. While wholly-owned subsidiaries performed more multicountry campaigns, in terms of their operations, no differences were found concerning their service offerings of number of global campaigns performed.     

Moldova Is Seeking Joint Ventures

The Embassy of the Republic of Moldova takes the opportunity to inform that business people from the Republic of Moldova are searching for Chinese companies and businessmen who can be interested to create joint （Moldo-Chinese） ventures for utilizing used plastic bottles and producing new ones. If this offer is interesting for you, please contact as for the details：     

Joint Case Development with Wharton

February 18,2005marked an agreement between Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).Together,Wharton's Snider Entrepreneurial Research Centre (SEC) and CEIBS' Centre of Entrepreneurship and Case Development Centre will work together creating a series of cases to be used in each institution's entrepreneurship courses.     

Joint Case Development with Wharton

February 18,2005marked an agreement between Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).Together,Wharton‘s Snider Entrepreneurial Research Centre (SEC) and CEIBS‘ Centre of Entrepreneurship and Case Development Centre will work together creating a series of cases to be used in each institution‘s entrepreneurship courses.……     

Analysis of Joint Ventures Local Managers' Behaviors and Its Impact on Joint Venture Cohesiveness:

This study investigates whether there is a significant different in the level of cohesiveness perceived by two different groups of managers - local firms' local managers (Korean) and joint venture local managers (Korean) - and also examines relative importance of underlying variables that distinguish the two groups of managers in terms of cohesiveness. The findings indicated that joint venture local managers demonstrate a far lower level of cohesiveness than local firms local managers. The important variables which differentiate the two groups in terms of cohesiveness are found to be sense of inequity in rewards, negative group image, and sense of temporality.     

金蜜蜂:从共识到共同行动

2004年5月《WTO经济导刊》以"SA8000——面对是为了应对"的封面报道正式投身到企业社会责任领域。2005年《WTO经济导刊》开始倡导履行社会责任的责任竞争力理念,并率先提出企业责任竞争力理念。经过这些年的不断合作和探索,逐步形成了企业责任竞争力、产业责任竞争力、区域责任竞争力和国家责任竞争力的责任竞争力理念体系。     

Joint ventures in the ASEAN countries

Many developing countries see in joint ventures a convenient means of pursuing their economic development in their own way without forgoing the benefits to be derived from foreign investment capital and know-how. The following article presents some of the findings of an empirical study by the author in the ASEAN countries. He addressed his inquiries on motivation, advantages and drawbacks of enterprises with local participation to 77 joint ventures as well as 29 fully foreign-owned firms.