Starting with Japan, the appreciation of the yen after the Plaza agreement of September 1985 led to Japan's rapid increased FDI in East Asian Countries. Towards the end of the 1980s Japan turned out to be the world's largest source of FDI. Although almost 40% of this went to North America, up to 80% of all FDI to developing nations went to the ASEAN countries(Association of South East Asian Nations) and China with Japan still the most significant investor in South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia2. ... Although the effect is quite minimal in comparison to that of Latin America; Hong Kon...

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Headquartered in Japan, the company has stayed competitive by setting up plants around the world using the entry mode strategy. ... Hyundai started off by sending employees to the US and Japan to gain knowledge on the automotive business. They were able to make an agreement with Mitsubishi in Japan who agreed to have the Korean company build nameplates with their designs, improving Hyundai's technical capabilities (Hyung & Jong-Sung 2011, p.7). ...

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The UN has sponsored a Global Compact to establish and promote a shared set of core values in the areas of labour standards, human rights and environmental practices between the UN and the business community The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) develops economic and social policy for its 29 members, which include the countries of North America, Western Europe (including Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. ...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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Abstract This paper focuses on cyber-attacks and its impact on the global economy. It depicts that cyber-crime is a global issue because businesses that function in an online world often are the victims and have to deal with it in some way. Statistics have shown that the price paid by the businesses in terms of economic costs and losses is very high in magnitude and ever increasing. Cyber-attacks not only have a significant impact on the high-tech industry, but also affect local businesses, governments, and other small scale or large scale industries. Cyber-attacks can potentially result in lo...

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