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Evolution of Industry 4.0 and Its Implications for International Business 工业4.0的演变及其对国际商业的影响

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2022-01-16 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.101764

M. Mohiuddin, Md. Samim Al Azad, Selena Ahmed, Slimane Ed-dafali, Mohammad Nurul Hasan Reza

{"title":"Evolution of Industry 4.0 and Its Implications for International Business","authors":"M. Mohiuddin, Md. Samim Al Azad, Selena Ahmed, Slimane Ed-dafali, Mohammad Nurul Hasan Reza","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.101764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101764","url":null,"abstract":"Industry 4.0 is the natural consequence of the techno-industrial development of the last decades. It has the huge potentiality to change the way globalization of manufacturing and consumption of goods and services that take place in the global markets. This chapter will focus on the evolution of Industry 4.0 and how this new technological framework will create values for firms and consumers, and how we can use it for a firm’s competitiveness and save them from the fallout of its development. An extensive literature review shows that the multi-faceted technology will hugely impact the global value chain, global supply chain, and new global division of labor (NGDL). It will reconfigure and re-distribute the business activities in the developing, emerging, and developed country markets and small and medium sizes firms and MNCs. The rapid development of technological and human capabilities can allow firms to reap benefits from this technology. At the same time, there are many challenges related to skill shortages, technological issues, business ethics, and values that need to be overcome to reap a profit from this new technological advancement.","PeriodicalId":396277,"journal":{"name":"Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title]","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115657524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Impact of Quality Standards on the Business Performance of Small, Medium and Micro-Sized Enterprises in Kwazulu-Natal: Selected Cases in the Durban Metropolitan Area 质量标准对夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省中小微企业经营绩效的影响:以德班都市圈为例

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.101366

Phindile B. Chili, Noluthando S. Matsiliza

{"title":"The Impact of Quality Standards on the Business Performance of Small, Medium and Micro-Sized Enterprises in Kwazulu-Natal: Selected Cases in the Durban Metropolitan Area","authors":"Phindile B. Chili, Noluthando S. Matsiliza","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.101366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101366","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, scholars showed an interest in alluding to compliance as a necessity to support small business performance in the last decades. Over the years, organisations have been frequently criticised for failing to comply with the quality standards such as the South African National Standards (SANS) 9001/ISO 9001 require effective implementation of Quality Management Systems and SANS 342, which provides specifications for diesel fuel products. Quality standards matrix adopted by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is frequently used as a set of detailed specifications, requirements, various guidelines and characteristics to assure that the product, service or process is fit for purpose. Even though public and semi-autonomous institutions understand the value of subscribing and complying with quality standards, there is still a gap in the literature regarding the enforcement and compliance of quality standards in small business practices. There is a relationship between the adoption of quality standards and business excellence. Government can tap on the competitiveness of small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) and address their challenges and barriers that limit SMMEs to acquisition and compliance of statutory quality management systems.","PeriodicalId":396277,"journal":{"name":"Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title]","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131432375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Exploring Potential Impacts and Developmental Implications 2019冠状病毒病大流行与非洲大陆自由贸易区:探讨潜在影响和发展意义

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.97394

E. Asiedu

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Global Business Challenges and the Role of Corporate Diplomacy 全球商业挑战和企业外交的作用

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.98492

M. A. Madi

{"title":"Global Business Challenges and the Role of Corporate Diplomacy","authors":"M. A. Madi","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.98492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98492","url":null,"abstract":"Today, corporate diplomacy refers to a new business governance model in a challenging global order where economic complexity, uncertainty and potential sociopolitical conflicts should be considered in any successful policy and strategy. Indeed, taking into account that the practice of corporate diplomacy enhances the redistribution and reallocation of economic power and wealth, there seems to be a global trend away from the shareholder business model of value creation towards a new one where stakeholders might be considered. However, there has been a controversial understanding of this new global management trend in terms of the configuration of relevant features of market dynamics. Considering this background, and adopting the methodological perspective of case studies, this chapter elaborates an analysis (i) of the complex drivers that shape corporate diplomacy competencies and strategies and (ii) of the potential results of corporate diplomacy in a global trade scenario that has been deeply affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Among the key findings, the Brazilian experience after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemics shows that the role of corporate diplomacy as a business tool of governance aimed to defend sectorial interests might be crucial to normalize trade flows.","PeriodicalId":396277,"journal":{"name":"Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title]","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131640714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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FDI and Its Impact on Trade in the East Asian Transition Economies 外国直接投资及其对东亚转型经济体贸易的影响

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97214

S. Kang, S. Lee

{"title":"FDI and Its Impact on Trade in the East Asian Transition Economies","authors":"S. Kang, S. Lee","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97214","url":null,"abstract":"As globalization and trade liberalization have increased integration of the world economy through financial and trade flows, the role of FDI and trade on economic growth is becoming more influential. This paper investigates the impact of FDI on trade of the East Asian economic transition countries, namely the China, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam, employing FDI flow and FDI stock data separately. The data from these four countries during the period 1990–2019 have been collected, and OLS and panel within fixed effect estimators are utilized. The main findings show that, first, when estimated using FDI flow as independent variable, there exists complementary effect between FDI and trade, and the coefficients are significant except for Cambodia. Second, when estimated using FDI stock as independent variable, the impact of FDI decreases and even substitutability effect is found in China at significant level. Third, in both cases, the coefficient of FDI is shown positive and significant in Vietnam. In addition, the paper finds the effects of human capital, GDP, and WTO accession on trade are positive, while the effects of exchange rate, financial development, and tariff rate vary among the East Asian economic transition countries.","PeriodicalId":396277,"journal":{"name":"Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title]","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133918547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Define the Process of Human Resource Integration in Cross-Border Acquisitions: Evidence from Chinese Oversea Acquisitions 界定跨国收购中的人力资源整合过程:来自中国海外收购的证据

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-04-08 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97132

Wenjia Chang-Howe

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Expatriate Satisfaction and Motivation in Multinational Corporations 跨国公司外派人员满意度与动机

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-04-02 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97046

Yanghua Zhou

{"title":"Expatriate Satisfaction and Motivation in Multinational Corporations","authors":"Yanghua Zhou","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97046","url":null,"abstract":"Employee satisfaction and motivation have an important influence on individual employees and the performance of companies. In international business and marketing, where expatriates play important roles, regional cultures and institutional factors impact their satisfaction and motivation. This chapter aims to find out what kind of regional cultures and institutions have an impact on employee satisfaction and motivation in multinational corporations (MNCs), using theoretical analysis and the results from around 100 Japanese expatriates’ questionnaires. It was possible to find the satisfaction and motivation-related characteristics of expatriates in MNCs from the results of their interviews and the questionnaire survey, which indicated that Japanese expatriates working in the USA, Singapore, and Indonesia had a higher job satisfaction degree than those working in cultural regions, such as China, Taiwan, and Australia. Moreover, the results showed that compared with other industries, in the sales and marketing industry, the Japanese expatriates had the lowest satisfaction degree after repatriation, although their satisfaction degree was higher during expatriation and after a career change. The reasons relating to regional cultures and institutions, and some methods and human resource management practices in international marketing and trading that were analyzed are expected to raise expatriates’ satisfaction and motivation.","PeriodicalId":396277,"journal":{"name":"Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title]","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123014680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Belarus-China: Avoiding the “Debt Trap” 白中:避免“债务陷阱”

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2021-03-23 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.96858

K. Rudy

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Impact of Oil Price Fluctuation on the Economy of Nigeria, the Core Analysis for Energy Producing Countries 油价波动对尼日利亚经济的影响——能源生产国的核心分析

Global Market and Global Trade [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94055

Jelilov Gylych, Abdullahi Ahmad Jibrin, Bilal Çelik, Abdurrahman Işık

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