The purpose of this paper is to discuss one of the policy choices being pursued by German enterprises, choices that affect both the current developments in the German economy as well as the future structure of the European economy in general. Using empirical data gathered at some twenty German enterprises that have invested in production facilities in Hungary over the past decade, the paper wil...

Food marketing at international and domestic markets has focused on processing systems that improve food safety. The objective of this research is to determine the factors influencing the implementation of the HACCP system in the Mexican meat industry, and to identify the main marketing destination of their products. Only 18.5% of enterprises reports fully operational HACCP in their plants. The...

We present the results of a 1997 study exploring the manufacturing strategy of 46 plants (foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) and wholly Chinese-owned enterprises (WCOEs)) located primarily in the Beijing}Tianjin area. Semi-structured interviews using a questionnaire in English and Chinese were employed to: (i) identify current activity (practices and emphases) and future trends in manufacturin...

Using data from a recent national survey of the ownership reform of state-owned enterprises in China, we study the effects of politician control and agency problems on the performance of the reformed firms. Taking into account of the endogenous nature of the reform, we find that firm performance is positively affected by the lessening of politician control through increasing the firm’s flexibil...

Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital partic...

With the trend of globalization and the continuous development of electronic information technology, E-commerce is applied by enterprises to develop enterprises integrating with the world market. It has become the next potent growth point of international trade development. As Ecommerce is based on electronic information technology and computer network, it is accelerating the process of market ...

The managers very often don’t take into consideration cultural determinants which can influence their employees’ attitude and preferences. This can result in the transfer of practices which are not suitable in specific cultural environment. The aim of this paper is to present the direction of the influence of one of the national culture dimensions – power distance on the internal relations betw...

This study explores the differences in pollution control performances of industrial enterprises with various ownerships in China – State owned (SOE), collectively or community owned (COE), privately owned (POE), foreign directly invested (FDI) companies as well as joint ventures. A survey was conducted of approximately 1000 industrial firms in three provinces in China, which collects the detail...

Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merg...

Over the last decade, Chinese State-Owned Enterprises have emerged as among the most active investors in Mekong Basin hydropower development. This paper uses a political economy analysis to examine the forces that drive Chinese State-Owned Enterprises to invest in hydropower in the Mekong Basin. We focus our analysis on the Lancang (Upper Mekong River) in China and in the Greater Mekong Subregi...