{"title":"Hong Kong after 1997: The question of sovereignty","authors":"W. Overholt","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90019-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90019-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"36 1","pages":"18-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90019-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337525","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}
{"title":"Managing human resources in Hong Kong: 1997 and beyond","authors":"J. Farh, K. Leung, D. Tse","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90023-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90023-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"52-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90023-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337582","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}
{"title":"The changing information business","authors":"Nikhilesh Dholakia , Ruby Roy Dholakia","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90028-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90028-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As information-related industries creep into each other's territory and create bybrid “info-tainment” business groups, traditional routes to competitiveness become scarce. Attention is shifting toward content and service-based ways of competing, as postmodern forces sweep aside conventional ways of developing and delivering content. The Dholakias examine both the shift in the basis of eompetition in the information business and in information creation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 2","pages":"Pages 94-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90028-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337660","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}
{"title":"Hong Kong's financial industries in transition","authors":"Gordian Gaeta","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90022-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90022-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a consultant to hundreds of business in Hong Kong, Gaeta analyzes the development of Hong Kong with a consultant's eye. He traces the path Hong Kong has followed to become a global banking and financial-services center in the 1990s; discusses the current obstacles it has to face as this center rapidly matures—for example, in its move from laissez-faire to international regulatory standards- and discusses the future competitive and managerial challenges the country will face with China at the helm, such as skills and human resource development, goal setting and performance management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 2","pages":"Pages 42-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90022-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337572","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}
{"title":"Intellectual property rights: Changing levels of protection under GATT NAFTA and the EU","authors":"P. E. Chaudhry, M. G. Walsh","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90027-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90027-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"80-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90027-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337646","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}
{"title":"Managing human resources in Hong Kong","authors":"Jiing-lih Farh , Kwok Leung , David K. Tse","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90023-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90023-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Financial transition is not Hong Kong's only concern after 1997. This paper examines issues that senior human resource management executives must address as Hong Kong's deadline approaches. Within Hong Kong's particular political context, Farh, Leung and Tse identify the major social and economic trends that directly affect the management of heman resources and discuss the key implications of these trends with regard to personnel planning, recruitment and selection, training and compensation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 2","pages":"Pages 52-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90023-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90031389","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}
{"title":"Forward: An overview","authors":"N.T. Wang","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90018-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90018-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 2","pages":"Pages 10-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90018-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337505","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}
{"title":"Executive opinions on Hong Kong: Point and counterpoint","authors":"Alex Fong","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90024-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90024-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The biggest debate about the future of Hong Kong is poised on whether China wil honor the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration or whether it will introduce corruption and over-regulation into Hong Kong's well-functioning Western economy. Fong,an appointee of the Hong Kong government, and Wilson, a longtime resident and employee of Western companies with offices in Hong Kong, briefly tackle both sides of the issue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 2","pages":"Pages 60-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90024-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91594479","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}
{"title":"The Cuban market:","authors":"Donna Rich Kaplowitz","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90031-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90031-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To open our feature on business in Cuba, Kaplowitz presents a brief overview of the dramatic changes in the Cuban market since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. Until 1988, 85% of Cuban two-way trade was with the former Soviet Union, but by 1993 the COMECON nations accounted for only 20% of Cuban trade. The resulting chaos has created openings for Latin American, European and Canadian businesses to fill the investment void in Cuba. Kaplowitz lays out how recent developments have affected Cuban laws on foreign investment and trade, reviews which foreign companies are barkening to Cuba's call, and what the opportunities might be for U.S. businesses should relations between the two countries improve over the long-term. Her article is the first of seven articles in this feature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 6-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90031-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337671","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}
{"title":"Cuba's legal structure","authors":"James D. Whisenand","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90032-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90032-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The legislative decree—Decree No. 50—allowing for foreign investment in Cuba today was ironically written back in 1982. Cuban officials have resuscitated this decree following the collapse of the Soviet system in order to obtain badly needed foreign investment. As a result, there has been a significant increase in the amount of joint ventures between foreign entities and the Cuban government. This paper gives an overview of the foreign investment laws, the application process to establish joint enterprises and the various operating aspects regarding business in Cuba, which have come about as a result of Decree No. 50. It examines the risks and rewards of doing business on the island and the impact of the United States on the efforts to liberalize the Cuban market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 16-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90032-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"104922168","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}