Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes

Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes
Author: A. Claire Cutler
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774842911

As the world economy is becoming increasingly global in nature, the future of Canada's welfare will directly depend on the country's response and reaction to a wide range of economic regimes which govern the international economy. This volume is an important and timely analysis of past and current Canadian policies toward both the formal and less formal arrangements which regulate such areas as international trade and financial transactions, international service industries, fisheries resources, and the environment. Often influenced by domestic political concerns and its relations with the United States, Canada has, as the authors point out, exhibited a high degree of variation in its responses to these regimes. Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes addresses a broad range of foreign economic policies not generally considered in the foreign policy literature. Interdisciplinary in its approach, it will be of interest to those in political science and public policy, economics, and law, as well as to those involved in international business.

Trade Governance in the Digital Age

Trade Governance in the Digital Age
Author: Mira Burri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110737992X

The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation, and demand cooperation and coherent regulatory design. International trade regulation has hitherto not reacted in a forward-looking manner to the digital revolution and, particularly at the multilateral level, legal engineering has yielded few tangible results. This book examines whether WTO laws possess the necessary flexibility and resilience to accommodate the changes brought about by burgeoning digital trade. By revealing both the potential and the limitations of the WTO framework, it provides a broad picture of the interaction between digital technologies and trade regulation, links the often disconnected discourses of international trade law, intellectual property and cyberlaw and explores discrete problems in different domains of global trade regulation.

Multinational Business Service Firms

Multinational Business Service Firms
Author: Joanne Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429834551

First published in 1998, this influential volume entered the debate on Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and focuses on the role of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the service rather than manufacturing and primary sectors. While the significance of the service industry had been recognised (exceeding 60% of total GDP in some countries at the time of original publication), the role of FDIs has not. Joanne Roberts thus contributed to a woefully under researched field, covering areas including international trade, the organisational theory of the firm and the UK business sector.

Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development

Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development
Author: Peter Daniels
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351923897

The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations. Their varied knowledge requirements influence approaches to organizational structure, relationships to other organizations, the location of operations, and entry into new markets. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary team of leading scholars examines the attributes of knowledge acquisition and diffusion within and across service-providing organizations. Using a variety of case examples, they pay particular attention to the processes of internationalization and the ways in which service-providing organizations affect regional economic development.

Information Technology Outlook 2002 ICTs and the Information Economy

Information Technology Outlook 2002 ICTs and the Information Economy
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2002-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9264194266

This volume describes the main trends in industries and businesses supplying IT goods and services. It looks at the impact of IT diffusion and applications, as well as the growing importance of network effects as the use of IT expands.