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Business Climate (business + climate)
Selected AbstractsKnowledge Bases, Talents, and Contexts: On the Usefulness of the Creative Class Approach in SwedenECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, Issue 4 2009Bjørn Asheim abstract The geography of the creative class and its impact on regional development has been debated for some years. While the ideas of Richard Florida have permeated local and regional planning strategies in most parts of the Western world, critiques have been numerous. Florida's 3T's (technology, talent, and tolerance) have been adopted without considering whether the theory fits into the settings of a specific urban and regional context. This article aims to contextualize and unpack the creative class approach by applying the knowledge-base approach and break down the rigid assumption that all people in the creative class share common locational preferences. We argue that the creative class draws on three different knowledge bases: synthetic, analytical, and symbolic, which have different implications for people's residential locational preferences with respect to a people climate and a business climate. Furthermore, the dominating knowledge base in a region has an influence on the importance of a people climate and a business climate for attracting and retaining talent. In this article, we present an empirical analysis in support of these arguments using original Swedish data. [source] An insider's guide to doing business in IndiaJOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 6 2003R. S. Rathinasamy Many U.S. companies are searching for foreign business opportunities. And the world's largest democracy,India,has become a favorite of U.S. multinational companies. But what is the Indian business climate really like? What risks do you face? What pitfalls should you avoid? Where are the best fast-growth opportunities? Here is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to doing business in India that will answer those vital questions and more. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Accelerated Reliability Qualification in Automotive TestingQUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2004Alex Porter Abstract Products must come to market quickly, be more reliable and cost less. The problem is that statistical measures take time. There is a clear need for actionable information about the robustness or durability of a product early in the development process. In a Failure Mode Verification Test (FMVT), the analysis is not statistical but is designed to check two assumptions. First, that the design is capable of producing a viable product for the environments applied. Second, that a good design and fabrication of the product would last for a long period of time under all of the stresses that it is expected to see and would accumulate stress damage throughout the product in a uniform way. Testing a product in this way leads to three measures of the product's durability: (1) design maturity, the ratio between time to first failure and the average time between failures after the first failure; (2) technological limit, the time under test at which fixing additional failures would not provide a significant improvement in the life of the product; and (3) failure mode histogram, which indicates the repeatability of failures in a product. Using techniques like FMVT can provide a means of breaking the tyranny of statistics over durability and reliability testing in a competitive business climate. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] What moves German Bund futures contracts on the Eurex?THE JOURNAL OF FUTURES MARKETS, Issue 7 2002Hee-Joon Ahn The German 10-year Bund futures contract traded on the Eurex futures and options exchange in Frankfurt became the world's most actively traded derivative product by the end of 1999. In this article, we provide a detailed exploration of the interday and intraday return volatility in the Bund futures contract using a sample of five-min returns from 1997 to 1998. The evolution of interday volatility is described best by a MA(1)-fractionally integrated process that allows for the long-memory features. At the intraday level, we find that macroeconomic announcements from both Germany and the U.S. are an important source of volatility. Among the various German announcements, we identify the IFO industry survey of business climate, industrial production (preliminary), and Bundesbank policy meeting as being by far the most important. The three most significant U.S. announcements include the employment report, the National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM) survey, and employment costs. Overall, U.S. macroeconomic announcements have a far greater impact on the Bund futures market than their German counterparts. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 22:679,696, 2002 [source] THE DETERMINANTS OF INTERNATIONAL PATENTING FOR NINE AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS,THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2010H. PHOEBE CHAN This paper examines international patent application decisions of nine agricultural biotechnology firms from 1990,2000 in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Patent Office, Japan and South Africa. The data reveal a low frequency of international applications despite an initial United States' application, indicating very low values for patents abroad. The results indicate that invention quality plays an important role in firms' decisions to patent abroad and that a single international application is a good predictor of multiple international applications. Further, significant country fixed effects suggest wide differences in business climates and patent enforcement among countries. [source] | ||||||||||