John R. McIntyre

Remote repair, diagnostics, and maintenance

An overview and comparison of the U.S., Japanese, and German machine tool industries.

The role of export processing zones for host countries and multinationals: a mutually beneficial relationship?

This paper examines export processing zones (EPZs) and the reasons behind their limited success in the development of host countries’ economies, especially in terms of employment, technology transfer, and foreign earnings. It is posited that (1) the extent to which host governments derive net benefits from EPZs is a function of the location-specific advantages they provide; net benefits to the host country increase as location-specific advantages increase; (2) net benefits tend to decrease at any given level of location-specific advantages as the number of countries offering equivalent advantages increases; (3) host countries’ net benefits are generally higher when EPZ operations are not insulated from the domestic economy, but this policy can be risky; and (4) there is little difference between EPZ-related foreign direct investment (FDI) and more traditional forms of FDI when the EPZ is not insulated from the domestic economy.

Business and Management Education in China : Transition, Pedagogy and Training

This pioneering book offers a unique constellation of essays focused on the important social and economic changes affecting educational institutions in China. It provides an in-depth examination of the potential and obstacles for business and management education in the worlds second largest economy and most populated country. This volume is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in teaching, developing a new program, or entering into a joint venture in China. A wide range of topics, such as economic transition, pedagogical issues, professional training and alliance formation, are discussed from the standpoint of deans, educators, directors and consultants of educational institutions hailing from both the East and the West.

Consumer Response to Diffusion Brands and Luxury Brands: The Role of Country of Origin and Country of Manufacture

ABSTRACT This article contributes to the literature by examining the differences in consumer response to high-tier luxury parent brands (e.g., Prada) versus their low-tier diffusion brands (e.g., Miu Miu). The study investigates the contrasting effects of congruence versus incongruence and utilizes two scenarios of incongruence: (1) When country of origin (COO) is a developed economy and country of manufacture (COM) is an emerging economy; (2) when COO is an emerging economy and COM is a developed economy. By means of three interrelated experiments, the authors find the following: (1) When there is congruence between COO and COM, diffusion brands are preferred more than parent brands; (2) in contrast, when there is incongruence between COO and COM, parent brands are preferred more than diffusion brands. The authors also find that this differential impact of luxury diffusion versus parent brands is stronger for hedonic products as compared to utilitarian products. The findings have important implications for understanding consumer preferences as well as devising marketing strategies for global diffusion brands introduced by the luxury parent company.

Strategies for sustainable technologies and innovations

Contents: Introduction: Foundational Considerations in Balancing Innovatory Processes and Sustainable Development Practices in Comparative Light PART I: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS 1. Sustainable Innovation Responses to Global Climate Change Paul Shrivastava 2. Understanding Eco-innovation for Enabling a Green Industry Transformation Tomoo Machiba 3. Sustainable Development through Innovation? A Social Challenge Corinne Gendron 4. Appraisal of Corporate Governance Norms: Evidence from Indian Corporate Enterprises Rabi Narayan Kar 5. Codes of Conduct and other Multilateral Control Systems for Multinationals: Has the Time Come - Again? Tagi Sagafi-nejad 6. Appropriate Technology Movement Sanjeeb Kakoty PART II: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT 7. Eco-Social Business in Developing Countries: The Case for Sustainable Use of Resources in Unstable Environments Roland Bardy and Maurizio Massaro 8. Entrepreneurship Development at Small Scale: Key for Sustainable Economic Development Sanjay Bhale and Sudeep Bhale 9. Entrepreneur Profile and Sustainable Innovation Strategy Sandrine Berger-Douce and Christophe Schmitt 10. Benchmarking Sustainable Construction Technology in the Building and Transportation Sectors Salwa Beheiry and Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh 11. The Eco-logistics Improvement in France: Towards a Global Consideration of Inland Waterway Transport Within the Supply Chain Strategy Thierry Houe and Renato Guimaraes 12. Integrating Sustainability and Technology Innovation in Logistics Management Matthias Klumpp, Sascha Bioly and Stephan Zelewski 13. Sustainable Development, a New Source of Inspiration for Marketing Innovation? Focus on Five Major Trends and One Innovative Project in Customer Relation Marketing Gael Le Boulch and Remy Oudghiri

Business education in emerging economies

Higher education has become the basic education of the knowledge economy. Yet in transitioning, emerging and developing countries, resources for higher education, and indeed higher educational systems themselves, remain inadequate. Urgent action is needed to expand and diversify the supply of educational avenues to meet the fast rising demand. This review paper, based on the ongoing research of the authors, defines business education as the collection of skills and abilities given by the business disciplines and enabling the development of an entrepreneurial society. We contend that the institutionalisation of world-class management programmes to produce a continuous and self-renewing stream of intellectual capital and its retention in the emerging economies of the world is possibly the most significant challenge faced by business and management education in the coming generation.

Organizational Role Differentiation and Individual Propensity for Role Changes

This chapter attempts to develop the concept of role transition within large organizations by describing its more salient theoretical properties and by exploring its relation to pertinent concepts and models in the literature of management and sociology of large organizations. The fact that role transition difficulties are likely to become an everyday occurrence as the economies of Western industrialized countries switch from a heavy industry to a service-oriented, high technology economy makes the subject a very topical one indeed. The inevitable uncertainties attending massive economic and social dislocations directly affect large organizations (be they public or private), and ultimately come to rest on the individual role incumbent.

Emerging Dynamics of Sustainability in Multinational Enterprises

Contents: Introduction: Emerging Dynamics of Sustainability in Multinational Enterprises PART I MNES AND MANAGING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS DYNAMICS 1. The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Promoting System-Level Innovationsin the Finnish Food IndustryKaisa Sorsa 2. Are Local Businesses more Environmentally Sustainable or MNEs? Some Evidence from AsiaDavid Griffith 3. Push Factors Causing Outward FDI from Select Asian Economies: Is Sustainability a Concern?Niti Bhasin, K. V. Bhanu Murthy and Vandana Jain 4. CSR and Networked OrganisationsBernard Girard and Corinne Gendron 5. Convergence and Divergence of Transnational Regulation: The Issue of Mnes and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJoseph Effiong PART II INNOVATIVE STRATEGIC CHOICES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 6. Implications for Multinational Companies Seeking a Sustainable Virtual Environment Using The Building Blocks of Social Media.Thierry Houe, Klaus Nicholas Schmidt and Renato Guimaraes7. The Internationalization Path and Sustainability Dynamics in Emerging Economies: The Case of Indian SmesGabriele Suder 8. Sustainable Development Through Consumer Well-Being and Life Satisfaction: Preliminary Findings and Strategy Implications from IndiaSanjay K. Jain and Parul Goel 9. The Case Study of DKCMUL in Sustainable DevelopmentNancy H. Vaz and G. A. Raikar PART III EMERGING NATIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 10. Environmental Kuznets Curve: CO2 Emissions, Pollution Havens and Type of Economic DevelopmentK V Bhanu Murthy and Niti Bhasin .11. Measuring Environmental ConsciousnessKavita Sharma and Monika Bansal 12. Sustainable Agricultural Marketing Strategies and Practices: An Indian ExperienceMinakshi, Anil K. Swain and Amrita Kaur 13. Resource Dynamics of Outbound Acquisitions: Evidence from the Indian IT IndustrySumati Varma and Rabi N. Kar 14. Sustainability through AfricapitalismYosef Kebede Index

Introduction: Foundational considerations in balancing innovatory processes and sustainable development practices in comparative light

This book of expert and scholarly contributions on strategies for sustainable technologies and innovations is the byproduct of the threeday international conference (Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development – MESD’09) held at Nancy, France, in November 2009, jointly organized by the ICN Business School (France), the CEREFIGE research center of the Université de Lorraine (France), and the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. The conference brought together academics, researchoriented practitioners, experts, consultants and various professionals in the field of technology management for sustainable development with a view to refine our understanding of one of the major challenges of our environmental future: its innovation dimensions. Our conviction is that the form in which business operations are actually conducted around the world cannot be sustained, as momentous changes continue to characterize our planet. Scientific evidence points to the fact that human and organizational behaviors can result in critical damage to our natural systems. The quality of human existence continues to be strongly related to our ability to innovate and to conceive sustainable technological and productive systems. Radical sociotechnical changes are needed to slow and eventually reverse the deterioration of our environment, but also to develop available natural resources. Business firms are catalysts and agents of societal and economic change. Over the last decade, companies have faced social and environmental pressures to better integrate the challenges of sustainability. Scholars, policymakers and experts, among others, have argued that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility,

The Role of the West European and Japanese Governments in East-West Economic Relations: The View from Eastern Europe

It is widely believed that East-West economic relations have always been heavily influenced by political factors. However, Western governments, even those following otherwise liberal and non-interventionist foreign economic policy, have tried to control the sphere of economic contacts with socialist countries, using various economic and non-economic tools. This tendency has been particularly visible in the case of the United States, although other Western countries have closely followed American political guidelines.