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...., Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United K..., are now committed to doing so under the TRIPS agreement. . A third important influence that has ...
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... already exists in France, Great Britain and Italy. It is still not decided though whether this lower... Federal Supreme Court's reference to the TRIPS might imply such an understanding of S. 819 German...
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The paper studied why multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries adopt dissimilar political strategies, and seek to advance the understanding of international political strategy from an MNE parent-subsidiary perspective. Drawing on the MNE parent-subsidiary literature, the paper contended factors at the subsidiary, corporate, and host country levels contribute to subsidiary political strategy dissimilarity. Hypotheses were tested with a sample of US MNE subsidiaries within Western Europe. The results demonstrate that dissimilarity in MNE subsidiary political strategy is attributed to a combination of subsidiary, corporate, and host country factors.
...paid foreign trips to learn more about an issue) use financial induce..., including Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portuga...
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This paper focuses on the overall themes of the issue to examine the interrelationships between innovation, competition and regulatory change in international business. It provides a synthesis by highlighting recent interlinked developments in two contrasting industries dominated by large multinationals -- pharmaceuticals and automotives, with specific reference to cars. This industry based assessment highlights the technical, economic and regulatory forces that have together changed the business environment, innovation processes and nature of competition in the pharmaceutical and automotive industries.
... of pharmaceutical firms based in France, Italy and Japan, for example, is innovative but the inno... Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) set new standards requiring members of the WTO to...