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The current work is the fourth volume in the series "Europe's Economic Future", edited by Strasbourg's Robert Schuman University, under the direction of Professor Sabine Urban, head of the CESAG-IECS research center. This series intends to analyze the European situation - not through idealized models of operation or abstract schemas - rather based on concrete observations, equally close to the actions and the life of the European citizen as of Europe's corporation and institutions. The studies that are presented here are not, however, simply descriptions; they refer to precise conceptual frameworks and nourish long-term reflection. The authors of this work are professors of universities representing a wide range of horizons: ltaly, Finland, Austria, the United States and Britain, not to mention from the heart of Europe, Germany and the Netherlands. The authors share the common experience of having served as visiting professors at Robert Schuman University (IECS Strasbourg) during the 1995-96 academic year. This volume, like its predecessors, reflects the diversity which characterizes Europe, rich and stimulating but, at the same time, difficult to manage.
List of contents
1. Europe in the Global Competition.- 2. The Conscious Lack of Attention towards Unemployment in Europe.- 3. Unemployment in Europe: Characteristics and Causes in an International Comparison.- 4. Intercultural Management between Universalism and Relativism - Fundamental Problems in International Business Ethics and the Contribution of Recent German Philosophical Approaches.- 5. The Concept of the Market Economy and the Principle of Commonweal: A New Field of Inquiry for Management Studies.- 6. The Development of Strategic Alliances in a Chaotic Environment: Lessons from the Power Sector in India.- 7. New Strategies for a Global Industry: The Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry.- 8. Europe and the World Insurance Market.- 9. Development and Perspectives of the Deregulated European Telecommunication Sector.- 10. European Derivative Markets.- 11. Determinants of Export Sales Forecast Performance: Some Preliminary Evidence from UK Exporters.- 12. The German Waterpenny Case: A Paradigm for the Emerging Common Law of Europe.
About the author
Sabine Urban ist Professorin an der Université Robert Schuman und Leiterin des Centre d'Etude des Sciences Appliquées à la Gestion/IECS in Straßburg.
