Jonathan Morris

Wales has one of the highest concentrations of Japanese manufacturing investment Europe with the recent arrival of a Toyota engine plant at Deeside and a Sony television plant at Pencoed. It provides an ideal case for examining the economic and social impact of this new investment, which is often perceived as being very different from existing foreign investment.This study evaluates these qu

This book analyzes the business, geography and politics of shopkeeping in Milan between 1886 and 1922. The author studies the trades, techniques, tax structure and topography of the Milanese retail sector, addresses questions relating to petit bourgeois identity, and explains why shopkeepers were to be found on the political right in the years that led up to the Fascist takeover. This is the first

This study analyses the shift in the relationship between large and smaller firms from confrontation and conflict, to cooperation and mutual assistance. It charts the pace of the adaption of Japanese style buyer-supplier relations in North American and Western European organizations.

Most of us can’t make it through morning without our cup (or cups) of joe, and we’re not alone. Coffee is a global it’s grown commercially on four continents and consumed enthusiastically on all seven—and there is even an Italian espresso machine on the International Space Station. Coffee’s journey has taken it from the forests of Ethiopia to the fincas of Latin America, from Ottoman coffee houses

Excerpt from Japan and Its TradeAfter all, as Mr. John Morley once told the Midland Institute at Birmingham, long before the establishment of a commercial Uni versity (with a Chair of Commerce) in that city, the best thing that can happen to a young man of average abilities is that, after follow ing the elementary and higher education in his own town, he should, at the earliest conveni

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