The globalization strategies of business-to-business born global firms in the wireless technology industry

This paper discusses the globalization process of business-to-business born globals in a rapidly growing industry, the wireless technology industry. Deviations in these patterns in regards to the mainstream pattern of internationalization and earlier born global literature are discussed. Furthermore, the roles of the founders and managers, the networks, the financial resources of the companies, and the innovations behind the companies under consideration are analyzed. A conceptual framework and propositions explaining the product, operation and market strategies of born globals are developed. The results suggest that born globals in the wireless sector do in fact deviate from the traditional internationalization process in many areas. Their expansion even to distant markets is rapid and they apply advanced product strategies at an early stage. However, their business operations are found to proceed at a more conventional pace and the notable difference from traditional firms is the rapid establishment of sales and marketing subsidiaries. Results emphasize the key role of the resources and capabilities of born globals in influencing the advancement of product categories, operation strategies, and global market presence. Born global firms were found to lack the resources and capabilities accumulated by traditionally internationalizing firms, and they therefore need to acquire them either through the earlier experience of the founding team, which should be complementary in nature, or from external domestic and international network actors.     

The Social Economics of Globalization

There is general agreement on the moral values that globalization should serve. These are widespread prosperity and economic growth, ecological sustainability, and cultural diversity. Proponents believe that neoliberal globalization will achieve these goals, while the critics believe that globalization undermines them. An institutionalist theory that recognizes the reality of economic power and choice posits that globalization enhances the power of the business sector at the expense of the government and moral–cultural sectors. Policies for redressing this imbalance are discussed.

The effect of low-wage import competition on U.S. inflationary pressure

The effect of import competition from low-wage countries on U.S. inflationary pressure is estimated using a new methodology that identifies the causal response of prices to comparative advantage-induced supply shocks in these nations. The results of a panel covering 325 manufacturing industries from 1997 to 2006 show that imports from nine low-wage countries are associated with strong downward pressure on prices. When these nations capture a 1% share of the U.S. sector, the sector's producer prices decrease by 2.35%. Because import competition also influences the skewness of the distribution of price changes, it is likely to have impacted U.S. equilibrium inflation.     

The role of controls in the international financial crisis

The impact of the great financial crisis that started in the United States with the implosion of “subprime” loans has drawn the public’s attention on one of the most innovative branches of financial market, the famous derivatives. The financial crisis and the involvement of major banking institutions thus call for some thinking about the concept of control in Italy and in a globalized world. In Italy, even though the scale of the risks connected with transactions in derivatives is limited, some banks may have damaged their reputations by pushing complex derivative products onto unwitting clients. Apart from reassurance and all kinds of justifications, and without arguing whether this was deliberate or not, the monetary authorities, Consob, and ABI have clearly reported the risk of a world financial crisis too late.

全球化视野下的重庆市对外开放战略

全球化为重庆加快对外开放发展提供了重要的历史性机遇。重庆市作为我国中西部地区的唯一直辖市和长江上游的经济中心,承担着国家发展战略的枢纽与传递功能,这一功能内在地要求将重庆市对外开放的战略目标定位为内陆型国际化大都市;重庆市作为内陆型的国际化大都市,基本特征是内陆型的地域特征、国际化的本质要求、大都市的建管及运营视野;重庆市建设成为内陆型国际化大都市的基本条件已经具备,在全球营销重庆市尤显迫切。     

经济全球化下中国高新技术产业发展面临的挑战

当今世界，经济全球化给发展中国家经济发展带来了机遇和挑战，与经济全球化密不可分、相互联系和促进的世界性产业结构调整和转移也给发展中国家尤其是中国这个最大发展中国家的产业结构升级换代提出了严竣挑战。在融入世界经济体系过程中，中国的产业结构升级尤其是高新技术发展，必须充分认清差距，迎接挑战，制定切实可行、行之有效的发展战略。     

全球化视角下的中欧贸易争端及其博弈分析--以纺织品为例

欧盟已经并将继续成为对华贸易摩擦的首要发起国,中欧双方在贸易争端中考虑的第一影响变量就是经济全球化。全球化使贸易争端具有了不可避免性和可协调性,并为其提供了动态变化机制,进而使其成为一场欧盟占主动的完全信息动态博弈。近期的纺织品贸易磨擦就是一个明证,我国在博弈中只能也必须积极应对,并力争促成由被动向主动地位的转变,即我国在短期内要尽快建立成熟的争端应对机制,长期则要逐步促成比较优势的全球实现和动态升级。     

全球化与区域集团化互动效应的实证检验

随着“多哈回合”陷入僵局,经济全球化步伐有所减缓,区域集团化浪潮日益高涨,两者之间的关系之争成为理论界研究的热点问题。文章在在对两者关系进行创新的基础上,阐述了全球化背景下区域集团化产生的四大效应,并从静态和动态两个方面对全球化与区域集团化的互动效应分别给予验证。     

Globalization and school enrollment in a panel of countries

As the process of globalization has gained momentum in the past few decades, so too has interest in the effects of globalization on various socioeconomic outcomes grown. In this paper, I investigate the relationship between globalization and primary school enrollment. Both the economic globalization and social globalization measures from the KOF Index of Globalization are utilized in the analysis in order to capture the broad nature of globalization. The results of the panel data analysis indicate that there is a weak relationship between economic globalization and primary school enrollment, whereas the relationship between social globalization and primary school enrollment is both robust and highly significant. Examining the data by groups of countries indicates that relationship between economic globalization and school enrollment is positive and significant in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Asia, while it is weakly negative in Eastern Europe. The positive relationship between social globalization and school enrollment on the other hand is driven by countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and Africa.     

全球化与贫困关系的最新研究进展

随着全球化程度的加深,越来越多的发展中国家融入到全球市场中,开放政策也无可避免地影响着穷人的生存状态,本文对近期西方针对贸易和资本流动与贫困关系的文献进行了综述,得出了以下结论:首先,基于一般均衡的贸易模型并不能客观描述开放的贸易政策对穷人的影响;其次,如果能辅之以必要的国内政策,穷人分享全球化成果的能力将会大大增强;第三,贸易和资本开放政策对在出口部门和外资流入部门就业人员产生积极的影响,等等.