Showing papers on "Internationalization published in 1978"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model that stresses the importance of a firm's activities and "pre-export" behavior for the export start, which is based both on more traditional research in international business and recent developments in location theory.
Abstract: In this article we develop a model that stresses the importance of a firm's activities and “pre-export” behavior for the export start. Of special importance in the model are factors such as information, characteristics of the decision-maker, the enterprise environment, and the extraregional expansion of the firm. The model is based both on more “traditional” research in international business and recent developments in location theory.
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TL;DR: The first and only draft of a paper on which Stephen Hymer was working in the months before his death in February 1974 was published in the Monthly Review as discussed by the authors, which was intended as a sketch of his preliminary thoughts on that question.
Abstract: The following essay is an abridged version of the first and only draft of a paper on which Stephen Hymer was working in the months before his death in February 1974. He had been on leave for the Fall 1973 semester from the New School for Social Research, where he was teaching in the graduate political-economy program. During his leave, he was taking the first tentative steps on a new and important project. His previous work on multinational corporations had led him to view them as the institutionalized form of a constantly internationalizing capital. Understanding the duality of the capital/labor relationship, his analyses had led him logically and politically to the next important questions: If the internationalization of capital had produced multinational corporations, how would workers respond? What new institutional forms would frame the bargaining and struggle between labor and capital in an increasingly integrated world economy? Stephen had planned to begin a long-term research and writing project on the tensions affecting labor and labor organizations in the advanced capitalist countries. This essay was intended as a sketch of his preliminary thoughts on that question.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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01 Mar 1978
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that the analysis of the effect of commodity price change on the prices of factors of production can be conducted effectively by a technique based upon the Factor-Price Frontier (FPF).
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the analysis of the effect of commodity price change on the prices of factors of production can be conducted effectively by a technique based upon the Factor-Price Frontier (FPF). Suprisingly enough the FPF has so far been paid little attention, if not ignored, in the pure theory of international trade. Instead the Edgeworth-Bowley box diagram and / or the so-called Samuelson-Johnson diagram have been usually and extensively used.2 What has been said in terms of these diagrams on the commodity-prices / factor-prices relationships can, however, be derived and proved more easily and clearly in terms of the FPF. In Section 11 the FPF will be derived diagramatically from the familiar isoquant. Sections 111 and IV illustrate the effectiveness of the FPF in dealing with the factor price changes relative to commodity price changes, applying it to proving a few fundamental theorems, i.e., the Stopler-Samuelson theorem in a standard two-commodity, two-factor case, and the Haberler-Jones theorem3 in a two-commodity, three-factor case. Section V analyses in terms of the FPF the effects of factor price differentials.
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TL;DR: On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the International Social Science Council, its President, Stein Rokkan, asked the member associations to consider whether there have been trends toward a lasting internationalization of the pursuit, production and application of knowledge about human societies as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the International Social Science Council, its President, Stein Rokkan, asked the member associations to consider whether there have been trends toward &dquo;a lasting internationalization of the pursuit, production and application of knowledge about human societies&dquo; in the quarter century since the ISSC was founded in 1952. What have been the scope, nature and limits of international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the social sciences? What are the trends for the future?
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01 Jan 1978
TL;DR: Corporate marketing management has become an increasingly important task in the international enterprise as the era of global competition has approached as discussed by the authors, as marketing expertise tested and proven in many national settings is applied by competitors for whom market differences are a minor hindrance rather than a major obstacle.
Abstract: Corporate marketing management has become an increasingly important task in the international enterprise as the era of global competition has approached. Today the maintenance of competitive advantage requires new corporate skills. Experience in a local market is no longer a guarantee of continued success, as marketing expertise tested and proven in many national settings is applied by competitors for whom market differences are a minor hindrance rather than a major obstacle. The removal of trade barriers, the growing mobility of consumers, the internationalisation of communication media and the emergence of the multinational customer have all contributed to the transferability of marketing ideas across national frontiers. In the mature multinational, marketing knowledge and skills are transferred globally to buttress existing products and exploit new market opportunities.