Globalisation, Convergence And European Telecommunications Regulation

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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between technological change, globalisation, `Europeanisation', national institutional structures, and the transfer of ideas in the reform of European telecommunications regulation.

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The Japan we see most often is an image of a country teetering on the edge of depression, an economic system that's too hamstrung by its own cultural traditions to fully participate in the global economy. The endless train of trade delegations to and from Tokyo seem to attest to the cultural gap that exists between Japan and the rest of the world--but that's where the explanation usually stops. We're rarely privy as to the nature of the gap itself.

That's why Laura Kriska's book, The Accidental Office Lady, is so valuable. The book is a firsthand account of Kriska's two years in Japan working as a trainee for the Honda Motor Company. As a trainee, she takes on a variety of tasks, from serving tea and taking the coats of senior executives to working in one of Honda's auto factories. Along the way she confronts the rigidity of business life in Japan: "I felt the corporate walls forcing me into a mold as though I were trapped inside a Fisher-Price playhouse, in which each piece of furniture fit perfectly into its assigned space and had a single hole for a peg-shaped doll. I didn't want to be that doll, and the more threatened I felt, the more I wanted to resist." Kriska not only successfully resists, but finds that she's able to fit into the corporate world of Honda. Anyone contemplating the nuances of Japanese life--especially from a woman's perspective--will find this an insightful and entertaining read. --Harry C. Edwards

Customer Reviews:

Intelligent and Observant.........2007-09-28

Interesting, well-written account of just how big a difference there can be between 'the honeymoon period' and actually living and working in a foreign country as an everyday working stiff.

As someone else who's also had the 'privilege' of working for a Japanese company, I'm thinking that those who gave this book a low rating are 'Japan cheerleaders' who think that anyone who criticizes anything Japanese must be simply 'closed-minded' or have unreasonable expectations.

I spent a lot of time over there avoiding the ex-pat community and networking with Japanese folks who spoke zero English. Even after my immersion (or maybe because of it), I couldn't help but come to many of the same conclusions Ms. Kriska did. The pettiness, passive-aggressive behavior, sexism, and group-thinking is enough to drive one insane. Sorry, but treating women's role in society as 'babymakers' is not simply a 'cultural difference'; it's backwards thinking.

To be fair, there is another, pristine, sublime, side to the country which I don't have to tell you about if you've lived there long enough. It is a sum of good and bad elements, just like anywhere else. Just because we come from another culture does not make us out of line for criticizing it - if anything, it puts us in the ideal position as the detached yet embedded observer.

an engaging read.......2005-08-31

I enjoyed reading this story of one woman's experience of working in Japan. The writer's affinity for Japan remains clear despite the frustrations she encounters as the only American woman among thousands of Japanese workers. This book provided insight into the Japanese-American relationship that I haven't before seen. Overall this was a thoughtful, funny and engaging read.

naive to the max.......2004-02-12

Maybe because I live in Japan, this does nothing for me. Heard it all before and heard it told better. Reminds me too much of the bright-eyed bushy-tailed who come over expecting it to be geishas and cherry blossoms and find it's pink salons and garbage strewn on beaches. They only missed the Edo period by 500 or so years just like this book missed the mark on really telling a less whiny tale of woe. Have to agree with reviewer who wanted to strangle her because she reminded him(?) of so many non-Japanese here who just won't shut up.

Ugh........2003-11-10

My main complaint with this book:

Please, *please* can Laura Kriska stop whining?

You took the job, you didn't ask specifics (or so you say). You wanted a job in Japan, you didn't care. So when things go Japanese on you, why do you constantly complain?

For anyone interested in office lady politics or the reasons for the Japanese feminist movement this book is worth a read. There is information in there. I just really had to supress the urge to want to strangle the narrator.

Inspirational for anyone looking to effect change.......2003-03-14

Kriska not only paints a compelling picture of being the first American woman to work for Honda Corporation in Japan, but also provides a roadmap for anyone trying to get unstuck from a frustrating, demeaning position. With honesty and integrity she shows us her foibles and fumbles as she negotiates her way through the austere Japanese hierarchy and sexism in the workplace. By the end of the book, she has begun to master the subtle art of deference and found chinks in the armor of a huge corporation. She and the Office Ladies of the title manage to get the sexist policy of workplace uniforms for women only revoked at Honda. No small task given the steadfast nature of rules in Japan. This book is inspirational for anyone looking to effect change when the odds are against you!

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This new 275-page report from CTR provides a comprehensive analysis of two of today's most dynamic areas in information technology: computer telephony (CT) and wireless communications. The report explores how these applications can provide solutions to your organization's business needs.

Computer Telephony and Wireless Technologies: An Overview

Using the right technology in order to implement new business solutions will often determine the success or failure of the enterprise. CTR's new report, Computer Telephony and Wireless Technologies: Future Directions in Communications, provides a comprehensive analysis of two of today's most dynamic areas in information technology (IT): computer telephony (CT) and wireless communications. The report focuses on the business applications of CT and wireless communications and explains the benefits these technologies offer.

CTR's report provides critical information that will help IT managers understand the latest developments in communications and the impact these developments will have on the enterprise.

Computer Telephony Defined

CT was once defined as the integration of a company's computer system with its telephone system. While this is still true, today's complex computing infrastructures demand a more precise definition.

CTR's Computer Telephony and Wireless Technologies: Future Directions in Communications report defines CT as a platform that merges voice and data services in order to enable the development of integrated business applications.

The report describes the functionality of early CT applications and explores the applications that are popular today, including client/server (C/S)-based applications, unified messaging and mobility, call centers, and speech processing.

The report also evaluates the key issues surrounding Internet telephony, faxing over an intranet, and integrating CT with Web sites.

The Need for Wireless Technologies

Wireless technologies create a flexible infrastructure that is easily modified to reflect the ongoing and varying needs of the enterprise. With the number of mobile employees continuing to increase, this flexibility is now more important than ever.

Computer Telephony and Wireless Technologies: Future Directions in Communications explains the various public and private infrastructures that are required to support wireless communications for cellular, broadcasting, fixed point-to-point, and satellite networks.

The report also evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of wireless local area networks (LANs), identifies the wireless applications that address specific business needs, and explores the security issues surrounding mobile telephony.

In addition, the report offers a discussion of the recent convergence of wireless communications and CT and explains what this will mean for the future.

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The History Of The Telephone.......1999-02-23

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Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business
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If a family-owned company is to endure and provide the maximum potential opportunity for future generations, it must plan for provision of both adequate shareholder liquidity and sufficient business capital. Many believe their options are limited: restrict money available to the family; sell the business; or go public. Rather than allowing financial pressures to destroy the family business, careful planning and sophisticated use of the growing collection of financial techniques can help the family retain business control and make wise choices among many available alternatives. Francois deVisscher, one of the nation's leading authorities on family business finance, joins Drs. Aronoff and Ward in producing this volume. Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in The Family Business is a guide to: * anticipating and managing capital and liquidity needs; * understanding how the "Family Effect" can be a family business' greatest asset--or its greatest threat; * evaluating two dozen up-to-date, sophisticated financial solutions for providing liquidity and capital for the family business; * recognizing how predictable family business transitions can erupt into family crises; * avoiding the downward liquidity spiral; * keeping patient capital from becoming impatient; * controlling the family business's cost of capital; and much more... Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business gives business owners the financial insight and understanding needed to provide future generations with the fullest possible opportunity to enjoy the unique benefits of business ownership.

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The Successful Meeting Master Guide for Business and Professional People
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1920. Lippincott's Thrift Text Series. This is an inspirational volume on thrift and the many ways in which it can be applied in its broadest senses to the use of money, health, living, time and energy; thrift in the home, in business and society and in national and individual development. So clearly did the author bring before the members of the National Education Association and other associations, his enlarged point of view, and so thoroughly did he persuade members of the Committee on Thrift Education of the necessity for introduction into the schools of proper instruction in thrift, that the efforts of the previous few years resulted in an awakening such as was created by no similar movement in a century. Illustrated.

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Business the Nokia Way demonstrates how Nokia has come to be regarded as the coolest telecoms company in the world. Nokia's unique blend of high quality products, streetwise attitude and double-digit growth has made it the darling of both the financial markets and the mobile phone generation. Business the Nokia Way reveals how Nokia grew from humble beginnings as a paper mill to take centre stage in world telecommunications.

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Global Marketing Strategies earns high praise for its up-to-date coverage of the field, especially from instructors of graduate-level courses. In addition to the latest research, this text reinforces the importance of global strategic thinking, or the "global mindset," with current examples from well-known companies across Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as both North and South America. The Sixth Edition continues to offer a practical focus on global marketing, highlighting the issues facing current managers such as e-commerce, the decline of internet-based businesses, the devaluation of assets sold on the stock market, emerging economies, the events of 9/11, and continued opposition to unlimited globalization.

The authors have revised the complete text, updating key concepts and examples with reference to numerous 2000-2002 academic and trade sources. Chapter 2, The Global Economy, features new statistics on world trade and growth rates, a discussion of the steel tariffs challenged by the EU and WTO, and the financial impact of 9/11. Other highlights include Chapter 3, Cultural and Social Forces, offering insightful business advice about Hindu and Moslem cultures; Chapter 4, Political and Legal Forces, examining how countries such as China use product standards to avoid poor-quality imports and how companies are dealing with executive kidnappings, one of the fastest-growing criminal practices in the world; and Chapter 10, Pricing for Global Markets, covering the management of transfer pricing in response to government audits.

New! Revised annually, an updated casebook appears with every new copy of the Sixth Edition—and allows students to gain a better understanding of how products are developed and marketed through company-, product-, and industry-specific cases.
New! As the result of changing industry practice, "international and global" references now appear as "global" and reinforce the text's more unified, worldwide character.
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Current sources from traditional U.S. publications—such as The Wall Street Journal, Marketing News, and Business Week—are complemented by references to international publications, including Business Europe, Far Eastern Economic Review, Nikkei Weekly, and The Asian Business Journal.

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Used in MBA program for International Marketing.......2006-04-06

We used this book for our International marketing class and did not find the textbook that useful in that it didn't seem that applicable to "real world" situations. It also didn't really teach any solid techniques. I did not keep it around as a reference book as I do with some other books.

Global Marketing Strategies Jeannet & hennessey.......2000-04-16

I use this book for instructing my third year marketing students who find the case study section particularly helpful. The glossy pages of international statistics make for easy reading. A very good value for money book.

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Economic growth in China has been exceptionally strong in recent decades, but the country still faces enormous economic problems, including huge poverty, uneven regional development, the problems associated with strengthening capital formation, and modernising and making more productive the very large former state sector. This book presents the work of a wide range of leading economists of China, all members of the prestigious Chinese Economics Association, who put forward new research findings and new thinking on a wide range of issues connected with the problem of sustaining China's economic growth.

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The goal of Global Price Fixing is to describe and analyze the origins, operation, and impacts of global cartels in the markets for lysine, citric acid, and vitamins. The work is fundamentally a historical approach to understanding the interplay among personal motivations, economic forces, and the enforcement of the competition laws of the major industrial nations.
The first chapter highlights the renewed importance of international price-fixing conspiracies after an absence of nearly 50 years. Two following chapters provide background on the economics theory and legal principles relevant to understanding cartels. Nine following chapters comprise the economic core of this book. Three chapters are devoted to each of the three cartels selected for intensive study: citric acid, lysine, and vitamins. The next four chapters then concentrate on the legal fallout from the discovery of the three cartels by the world's antitrust authorities. Chapter 17 provides a description of a few additional selected cartels with features not found in the lysine, citric acid, and vitamins cases. The penultimate chapter considers whether the antitrust resources of government agencies and private plaintiffs are sufficient to deter global price fixing in the foreseeable future. This final chapter attempts to identify major themes that appear throughout the book and to provide a summary of the ultimate impact of the global-cartel pandemic of the 1990s.

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