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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53347#.VL71KSzQrzE Author(s)     Raymond Mac-Dermott * , Dekuwmini Mornah Affiliation(s) Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, USA . ABSTRACT This paper offers qualitative analysis of the impact of culture on international business. In particular, we discuss the potential impact of each of the nine cultural dimensions that were established by the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program, which is led by Robert J. House, on the decision to trade with or invest in another country. The analysis finds characterizations of source- and destination-country are important for each dimension when deciding between trade and FDI. Given the potentially conflicting recommendations, the dimensions are placed in a hierarchy to distinguish those most in need of consideration from those of secondary import.   KEY...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53347#.VL3NLCzQrzE Author(s)     Raymond Mac-Dermott * , Dekuwmini Mornah Affiliation(s) Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, USA . ABSTRACT This paper offers qualitative analysis of the impact of culture on international business. In particular, we discuss the potential impact of each of the nine cultural dimensions that were established by the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program, which is led by Robert J. House, on the decision to trade with or invest in another country. The analysis finds characterizations of source- and destination-country are important for each dimension when deciding between trade and FDI. Given the potentially conflicting recommendations, the dimensions are placed in a hierarchy to distinguish those most in need of consideration from those of secondary import.   KEY...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52317#.VJDmQMnQrzE Author(s) Tadashi Morita Affiliation(s) Faculty of Economics, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan . ABSTRACT In this paper, I construct a two-country model in which oligopolistic firms export goods and undertake cost-reducing R&D investment. In this model, abilities of individual to become skilled worker are heterogeneous and they choose to become skilled worker or unskilled worker. Individuals have to incur the cost of education in order to become skilled workers. Each country imposes tariffs. When the cost of education is sufficiently high, a decrease in the tariff rate decreases the level of R&D investme...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50572#.VESppFfHRK0 Author(s)   Paul A. Escajadillo Affiliation(s) Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, USA . ABSTRACT Although China has become, over the past three decades, an unprecedented case of economic growth accompanied by a voracious appetite for natural resources, China has been increasingly engaging with Latin America. However, as Sino-Latin American relationships have improved Latin American countries’ economies through their supply of primary products and through the region’s growing importance to China as a market, Mexico has not benefited from this increased engagement. This paper will show that as the balance of trade of selected...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50572#.VECrmFfHRK0 Author(s)     Paul A. Escajadillo Affiliation(s) Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Durham, USA . ABSTRACT Although China has become, over the past three decades, an unprecedented case of economic growth accompanied by a voracious appetite for natural resources, China has been increasingly engaging with Latin America. However, as Sino-Latin American relationships have improved Latin American countries’ economies through their supply of primary products and through the region’s growing importance to China as a market, Mexico has not benefited from this increased engagement. This paper will show that as the balance of trade ...