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作者:CORDELL, VV
作者单位:JP Morgan Chase & Company
摘要:When deciding on overseas production locations, the manager must take into account not only resource and cost benefits, but the effect that country of origin may have on consumer evaluations. An experiment conducted by a telephone survey procedure examined country of origin perceptions of twelve countries and eight products, using both perceived quality and choice measures. As hypothesized, preferences were found to be more product specific for industrialized than less developed countries. In ...
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作者:MILLER, KD
摘要:Treatments of risk in the international management literature largely focus on particular uncertainties to the exclusion of other interrelated uncertainties. This paper develops a framework for categorizing the uncertainties faced by firms operating internationally and outlines both financial and strategic corporate risk management responses.
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作者:RAMAMURTI, R
摘要:This article tests alternative hypotheses about why developing countries are pursuing privatization, a policy that gained considerable popularity in the 1980s. Univariate and multivariate analysis indicate that privatization was more likely to be pursued by countries with high budget deficits, high foreign debt, and high dependence on international agencies like the World Bank and the IMF. In regions such as Latin America and Asia, the trend was also more likely in countries (a) that seemed to...