Showing papers in "The Columbia Journal of World Business in 1993"

TL;DR: Rugman and Gestrin this article developed a frame-work that explains paradoxes such as this one by distinguishing between measures that prompt production at the national level versus the regional level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a compensation model that examines the internal/external environments that affect the managers' expectations and ultimate satisfaction with their international compensation packages for expatriates, foreign nationals and third country foreign nationals.

TL;DR: Lieberman as discussed by the authors identifies the underlying rationale for privatization, presents lessons to be learned in program design, and cautions against pitfalls to successful program implementation, and concludes that privatization of state owned enterprises should be viewed as a critical element of economic adjustment.

TL;DR: The Malaysian privatization program is perhaps the most ambitious program found amongst developing or emerging market economies as discussed by the authors, and it is characterized by its development of a well structured institutional framework and creative use of a series of highly innovative restructuring and privatization techniques, the most exciting being the Build-Own-Operate and Build-operate-Transfer methods.

TL;DR: Sacks examines the Czech privatization process through the government's policy goals, its successes, and the problems it has encountered in its privatization push as discussed by the authors, concluding that "the Czech Republic has taken a modified path that combines both approaches".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the political and economic success of the privatization programs of the Central and Eastern European countries in light of the objectives of multiple stakeholders and evaluate the economic and political success of these programs.

TL;DR: Luders as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the past 20 years of Chilean experience with privatization, focusing on the early stages of state-owned enterprises in Chile, and concludes that this early effort marks the turning point in a trend in developing economies towards greater reliance on the private sector as the engine of economic growth.

TL;DR: The enthusiasm currently surrounding investment opportunities in Vietnam obscure complex historical aspects of the Vietnamese economy as discussed by the authors, which has been subject to the conflicting forces of economic upheaval and commercial growth, and all multinationals investigating the profitability of entering into the Vietnamese market must be aware of these historical forces and their implications.

TL;DR: In this article, Fleenor and six recognized international experts debunk the common assumptions made concerning the need for companies to “go global.” They assert that the leaders of tomorrow's global breed have already realized the shortcomings of the conventional idea of globalization and are seeking alternate solutions.

TL;DR: In this article, Drum focuses on the privatization programs of Nigeria, Senegal and Togo in an attempt to determine what works and what does not in these three countries and concludes that the performance of these enterprises and national economies as a whole has been extremely disappointing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed three such innovations, namely, auction sales, mass privatization, and industry-specific privatization, to facilitate transfer assets to the private sector in Central and Eastern Europe.

TL;DR: Krawczyk and Lopez-Lopez as mentioned in this paper summarized personal experience with the Polish restructuring and privatization programs and provide insightful comment for policy makers and program designers modelling the Polish experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and GATT (GATT) in the market access of telecommunications services.

TL;DR: The second largest revolution in global automotive manufacturing is currently under way: the race to develop environmentally clean, cost-effective, yet user-friendly automobiles as discussed by the authors. But despite being the world's largest automobile producer, the United States is currently not ranked within the top 10 countries in the development of alternative fueled vehicles worldwide.

TL;DR: De Kessler as mentioned in this paper reviewed the methodology of the program and offers preliminary evaluation of what has been generally viewed as a highly successful privatization of state owned enterprises of the Argentine Ministry of Defense.

TL;DR: Herrera as discussed by the authors provides a detailed account of the economics surrounding the decision to privatize and the privatization program itself, as well as a detailed analysis of the privatization of ENTEL.