...Lars Håkanson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance to international trade of impediments related to, first, geographic distance, such as freight and other costs related to the movement of physical goods, and second, “psychic distance”, such as the costs...

... (Papadopoulos et al., 2002). It reveals only relative opportunities (the change in the market), termed the amount of market potential, but the underlying factors are unknown. H1. Export market opportunity is negatively related to geographic distance. International trade theories...

.../implications What is presented here is an overview of the literature as it applies to international trade where globalisation was earlier hoped to bring an economic rescue to billions of people and liberate them from poverty. Marketing, organisational behaviour, risk assessment and strategic decision making...

... is to provide an investigation on whether “trade up” is a real hope, and what is required to make it real. Design/methodology/approach Theoretical modeling and case studies. Findings This paper finds that international trade does gear up the adoption of ISO 14001 standards in China through increasing...

... with international trade figures was assessed, to understand how well each framework predicts the amount of trade between countries. Findings Inter‐country distances between 23 countries suggest that the two bases of cultural distance were not congruent. While the correlation between both cultural distance...

... Publishing Limited 2005 --> Global Marketing Marketing strategy International trade We now have a new term to describe the international marketer – the trade globalist. In their newly published book, Mastering Global Markets: Strategies for Today's Trade Globalist, Czinkota...

... was not found to influence export performance. Implications for marketing practitioners and academics are addressed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Marketing strategy Exports International trade Electronics industry Republic of Korea In today's competitive global marketplace...

... European countries it is a traditional practice for a salesperson to be kept waiting a particularly long time, whereas in northern European countries this is not the case (Levitt, 2002). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Europe National cultures Sales training Performance International trade...

... younger consumers (Gibbs and Boguszak, 1995). The same applies to Western European consumers (Schmitz and Koelzer, 1996), and it is believed that Slovene consumers have similar patterns of loyalty for FMCG. © MCB UP Limited 2001 International trade Consumer attitudes Marketing Slovenia...

...Felix Mavondo Globalization International trade Marketing strategy Competitive strategy The editor and the contributors must be congratulated for their courage in putting together this book, given the rapid pace of change in international business and trade. The book should appeal...

...Stanley J. Paliwoda Alan   Rugman . The End of Globalization . London : Random House Business Books   2000 . Globalization International trade Marketing A new book by Alan Rugman always demands investigation. Rugman is impressive for his inimitable...

...Ken Peattie Nejdet   Delener . Strategic Planning and Multinational Trade Blocs . Westport, Connecticut : Quorum Books, 208 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1‐56720‐274‐8 International marketing International trade Multinationals Globalization The title of this book...

... executive training. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Consumer behaviour International trade International marketing National cultures … difference in perceptions between buyer and seller regarding either needs or offers … The inference is that psychic distance is a consequence...

...Otto Andersen Jean‐Claude   Usunier . International and Cross‐cultural Management Research . London : Sage Publications Ltd   1998 . 39.50 hardback ltural management Globalization International trade The increasing globalization of business has led...

... be characterized by the following factors: © MCB UP Limited 1998 Alignment Global marketing International trade Market segmentation Marketing strategy National cultures At the global level, trading blocs may be viewed as a cluster of geographically close countries that share abstract...

...Leonidas C. Leonidou Ingmar   Björkman , Mats   Forsgren Edited by . The Nature of the International Firm . Copenhagen : Handelshøjkolens Forlag   1997 . 500 pp Alliances Competitive advantage Foreign investment Globalization International trade...

... accurate impressions. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Cross‐cultural management International trade International marketing Negotiating Sales management International business comprises a large and increasing portion of the world’s total trade (Johnson et al., 1994; Czinkota et...

..., the Czech Republic, and South Africa. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Developing countries Emerging markets International trade Marketing strategy With sluggish growth in the developed markets of the world, companies are turning to newly emerging markets for business expansion (O’Reilly, 1988...

... participate on a more level playing field. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Auctions Business‐to‐business marketing International trade Internet Marketing channels Marketing opportunity The diffusion of the Internet, and with it electronic commerce, is promoting a transformation in the business...

... of market servicing, concludes that CT will probably persist as long as access to hard currencies by Eastern organizations is limited, and so long as entrepreneurs with vision seek out new market opportunities. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Countertrade International trade Market entry...