different decisions, including location decisions of companies which are operating in international dynamic environment are subject to significant uncertainty.so in this research an international facility location problem under uncertainty is considered and an integrated model for strategic and operational planning is presented. in strategic level countries are assessed according to internation...

This paper surveys the literature on the impacts of the Basel Capital Accords on banking market profitability, competitiveness, structure and risk-taking. Special emphasis is applied to the evolution of mortgage markets throughout the world over almost two decades of international bank regulatory policies. This paper has received generous financial support from the Canada Housing and Mortgage C...

The new wave of internationalisation is a product of corporate research and development (R&D) activity. The circulation of international knowledge is critical for the development of innovation performance and for the improvement of national competitiveness in the sense that internationalisation widens the access of companies to academic knowledge and research capabilities. In this proabstract

In this note we construct a simple international differentiated duopoly model that involves a divisionalization decision. It will be shown that the number of third market divisions of a parent firm with a cost advantage is relatively large. The results imply that the cost competitiveness of one country’s firm will be magnified through divisionalization decisions.

The nature of foreign markets, as well the issues Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face in terms competitiveness, necessitates this study. paper aims to analyze challenges ofexport-oriented Indian SMEs for International Competitiveness. explores cause-and-effect relations between them using decision-making trial evaluation laboratory technique (DEMATEL), study will assist gaining internation...

This paper presents the insights gained from the use of data mining and multivariate statistical techniques to identify important factors associated with a country’s competitiveness and the development of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) models to predict it. In addition to stepwise regression and weighted non-linear programming techniques, intelligent learning techniques (artificial neur...

Concerns have been expressed that in a global market place with mobile capital, national governments will have incentives to set weak environmental policies (“environmental dumping”) to protect the international competitiveness of their domestic firms, that these incentives are particularly strong in industries where plants may be relatively footloose, so that governments are concerned to preve...