European Integration and Global Corporate Strategies

European Integration and Global Corporate Strategies
Author: François Chesnais
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134614985

This innovative book explores the links between the options of world-wide globalisation and European integration, which are open to today's corporations. A European board of contributors highlight whether there are conflicts or unanimity between the two.

European Integration and Global Corporate Strategies

European Integration and Global Corporate Strategies
Author: François Chesnais
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134614993

This book explores the links between the options of world-wide globalisation and European integration which are open to today's corporations, highlighting whether there are conflicts or complementaries between them.

Shaping the EU Global Strategy

Shaping the EU Global Strategy
Author: Natalia Chaban
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319928406

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors – the BRICS together with the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Mexico – are of profound significance to the EU in economics, politics, security and global governance. In 2015, the volume’s editors and contributors were commissioned by the European External Action Service to research these countries’ perceptions towards the EU. The research highlights how in changing multilateral settings, images and perceptions significantly influence the behaviour and foreign policy choices of actors. The findings presented in this book helped to inform the content and focus of the 2016 EU Global Strategy, and will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners of EU foreign policy, European integration and public diplomacy.

Strategy-Making in the EU

Strategy-Making in the EU
Author: Pol Morillas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2018-09-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319986279

This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action. It uses the European Security Strategy and the EU Global Strategy to assess their policy-making dynamics both before and after the Lisbon Treaty. Inter-institutional relations in strategy-making are put into the context of current debates in European integration, questioning the assumption that the EU is a body increasingly ruled by intergovernmentalism - as reflected by the new intergovernmentalism literature. The book also provides a categorisation of EU strategies and considers them as policy-inspiration documents, acting as frameworks for policy-making. This reading of strategies lies behind the analysis of the policy-making processes of the ESS and the EUGS, unpacked into four phases: agenda-setting, policy formulation, policy output and implementation. By looking at the shifting policy-making dynamics from foreign and security policy to external action, the author sheds light on the current shape of EU integration.

Doing Business in Europe

Doing Business in Europe
Author: Alina Mihaela Dima
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319722395

The book brings together an international panel of experts on economic integration and international business to address the essential link between the two fields, namely the impact of integration processes on the business environment. Focusing on the European Union, it presents numerous examples and case studies to demonstrate how local business is becoming international business, and addresses the opportunities, constraints and overall historical changes. Starting with the regional and global economic integration framework, and subsequently exploring the institutional structure that makes everything possible and how the union came to be, the book reveals how the common policies of the EU impact businesses and entrepreneurship within both the common market and the member states. Readers will learn about the economic and political context that affect businesses in Europe; understand the basic concepts of integration, accompanied by cases and examples; gain a new perspective on important EU sectoral policies and challenges for individuals and businesses; become aware of the main challenges to EU enlargement; and better grasp the advantages and disadvantages of doing business in Europe in the present context.

Globalisation and European Integration

Globalisation and European Integration
Author: Petros Nousios
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415611849

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms. Divided into three parts, this book offers both empirical and theoretical analyses of social integration, supranationality and global competition. Drawing on Critical Political Economy research, Neo-Gramscian, Open Marxist, Regulationist and Post-structuralist scholars subject a wide range of European flagship policies in matters of competition, trade and security to critical scrutiny and relate them to global political economy dynamics. Contributors examine the ways in which current global economic turbulence has affected the European Union, its membership and its adjacent areas, and determine the potential for economic and political transformation in light of the global economic crisis and Europe's 2020 Strategy. In the emerging multi-polar world, in which the EU and the US are expected to share global policymaking with new powers, this book argues for a revised conceptualisation of European integration and its relationship with globalisation. Globalisation and European Integration will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of globalisation, political economy, international relations, and European Union politics.

Mapping European Corporations

Mapping European Corporations
Author: Andrea Colli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135754446

This book addresses the evolution of the strategies, structures, ownership patterns and performances of large European corporations since the early 1960s. The authors study large and small countries, in order to understand how the process of economic integration has affected the patterns of growth and the structural characteristics of the largest firms. Drawing both on extensive databases and on case studies, the contributions in this volume address the peculiar specificities of large firms in different national contexts, adopting a longitudinal, long term perspective. This volume delivers the first results of an international, collective research effort undertaken by several national teams. The 'Mapping Corporate Europe' project aims to provide a detailed account of the structural traits of the European Corporation in a framework which includes (i) a chronological analysis over 50 years, starting with the Rome treaty in 1957; (ii) geographical extension beyond previous analyses for France, Germany and the UK, by including smaller countries; (iii) firms from other industries in addition to manufacturing companies; and (iv) attention to internationalisation of European firms. These analyses form the basis of a rich description of the developments of large European corporations over the past five decades, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History.

Framing the EU Global Strategy

Framing the EU Global Strategy
Author: Nathalie Tocci
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319555863

This book tells the story of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS). By reflecting back on the 2003 European Security Strategy, this book uncovers the background, the process, the content and the follow-up of the EUGS thirteen years later. By framing the EUGS in this broader context, this book is essential for anyone wishing to understand European foreign policy. The author, who drafted the EUGS on behalf of High Representative and Vice President of the Commission (HRVP) Federica Mogherini, uses the lens of the EUGS to provide a broader narrative of the EU and its functioning. Tocci’s hybrid role as a scholar and adviser has given her unique access to and knowledge of a wide range of complex structures and actors, all the while remaining sufficiently detached from official processes to retain an observer’s eye. This book reflects this hybrid nature: while written by and for scholars, it is not a classic scholarly work, but will appeal to anyone wishing to learn more about the EUGS and European foreign policy more broadly.

Transnational Corporations

Transnational Corporations
Author: Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2002-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134753314

This volume examines the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the geography of international production, covering both theoretical and empirical aspects.

Contemporary Corporate Strategy

Contemporary Corporate Strategy
Author: John Saee
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: International business
ISBN: 0415385954

This book represents an eclectic collection of international research articles and empirical studies on corporate strategy, intended to equip readers with the latest knowledge to understand its theoretical and operational complexity.