A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America : with an appendix /

Appendix: On the conduct of the government of United States towards the Indian tribes: p.[129]-139.

Aerial view of the Hutton Sports Center, Chapman College, Orange, California

Aerial view of the Hutton Sports Center, 219 E. Sycamore Street, Chapman College, Orange, California. The Harold Hutton Sports Center, completed in 1978, is named in honor of this former trustee, and made possible by a gift from his widow, Betty Hutton Williams. Renovated in the mid-1990s.

A Geographical view of the Province of Upper Canada

Full Title: A geographical view of the province of Upper Canada : and promiscuous remarks on the government, in two parts, with an appendix, containing a complete description of the Niagara Falls, and remarks relative to the situation of the inhabitants respecting the war, and a concise history of its progress, to the present date. William and David Robinson, Printers

A View of the Fort and Harbour of Oswego from Lake Ontario, from the American Magazine March 1816

An image within the American Magazine, March 1816 Vol. I, No. 10. Page 369. A View of the Fort and Harbour of Oswego from Lake Ontario. Below the image it reads: "T. H. Wentworth del." Below the title it reads: "Representing the Attack by the British on the 6th of May 1814" Conducted by Horatio Gates Spafford, A.M. F.A.A.

Drivers of Local Firms’ Focus on Internal R&D in Emerging Economies and Their International Performance

Grounded on the resource-based view of the firm, the study of this thesis investigates the effect of four internal and external factors – engineer intensity, location, affiliation with the government, government funding – on Chinese firms’ decision to either invest in internal R&D activities or external R&D and the effect of this decision on the firms’ international market success. In addition, the moderating role of the presence of foreign firms in China is examined. To understand these relationships, the thesis’ theorization focuses on the issue of how firms can combine optimally the two options – “internal R&D” and “external R&D”. In this regard I juxtapose internal R&D and external R&D and compare their advantages and disadvantages. To test my model, I apply panel data from the Annual Industrial Survey Database provided by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics. My results show that three of the four investigated factors affect Chinese firms’ resource allocation decisions; and effective resource allocation decisions lead effectively to international market success, strengthened by the presence of foreign firms in China. Moreover the findings bear several theoretical and managerial contributions. First I propose the last dimension of the “VRIO framework” – “organization” – as an endogenous component of the VRIO framework, as my study investigated how firms can effectively combine resources to generate a competitive advantage in terms of international market success. Previous academic literature so far focused on examining whether internal and external R&D are complements or substitutes. My study fills a gap in the literature by investigating the determinants of the efficient combination of the two strategies and the outcome of the combination. One of the managerial implications is that Chinese firms can learn from foreign companies that are present in China.

California : A history of Upper and Lower California from their first discovery to the present time, comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, Sc. A full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free and domesticated indians. With an appendix relation to steam navigation in the Pacific. Illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbours, and numerous engravings

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History of the conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas

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The history of modern Europe: with a view of the progress of society from the rise of the modern kingdom to the peace of Paris, in 1763

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A Moral Stakeholder Theory of the Firm

To be a coherent and genuinely alternative conception to the shareholder model, any moral stakeholder theory must meet the following conditions: (1) It must be an ethical theory; (2) It must identify a limited group as stakeholders; (3) The group must be identified on morally relevant grounds; (4) Stakeholder claims must be non-universal; (5) And not held against everyone. A principle for identifying the stakeholder is suggested as a person who has much to lose – financially, socially, or psychologically – by the failure of the firm. The emerging picture contrasts sharply with the conventional conception of the firm.

Transfert de connaissances dans les entreprises multinationales : efficacité et influence des facteurs contextuels

Dans la présente recherche, nous nous sommes penchés sur le processus du transfert intra-organisationnel de connaissances au sein d’entreprises multinationales (EM). Partant du triple constat suivant : les connaissances organisationnelles constituent un avantage stratégique (Barney, 1991 ; Bartlett et Ghoshal, 1998), les transferts intra-organisationnels constituent la raison d’être des EM (Gupta et Govindarajan, 2000), lesquelles ont accès à un vaste bassin de connaissances disséminées à travers le monde par le biais de leurs filiales et les mécanismes organisationnels internes sont plus efficaces que ceux du marché (Williamson, 1987 ; Casson, 1976) pour transférer des connaissances entre unités organisationnelles; nous nous sommes intéressés aux facteurs pouvant affecter l’efficacité de ce processus de transfert. Ayant identifié, lors de notre revue des écrits théoriques, une multitude d’approches permettant d’appréhender ce phénomène, nous proposons, dans notre recherche, un modèle théorique intégrant les trois étapes propres au processus de transfert, soit : la détermination des connaissances à transférer, la sélection des mécanismes de transfert appropriés et, finalement, l’évaluation, d’une part, de l’efficacité des transferts et, d’autre part, de l’ensemble des facteurs contextuels ayant un impact sur l’efficacité de ce processus. Sur le plan théorique, cette recherche oppose deux courants dominant ce champ disciplinaire. L’approche stratégique, exprimée par la théorie des ressources, met l’accent sur l’importance prépondérante des facteurs organisationnels internes sur l’efficacité de toute action organisationnelle (Bartlett et Ghoshal, 1998 ; Barney, 1991). Cette approche s’oppose au courant institutionnel, lequel considère plutôt que les choix et les actions organisationnels sont surtout conditionnés par les contraintes de l’environnement externe (Ferner, 1997; Kostova, 1999; Scott, 1991). Les résultats de notre recherche démontrent que, malgré l’existence de contraintes de nature institutionnelle et culturelle, l’efficacité du processus de transfert des connaissances associées à la gestion des ressources humaines relève davantage des conditions organisationnelles internes et, plus particulièrement, de l’implication de la haute direction, du rôle accordé à la fonction RH et de l’alignement entre la stratégie corporative, la stratégie RH et la culture organisationnelle. Sur le plan méthodologique, il s’agit d’une recherche exploratoire qualitative menée auprès de trois EM (2 canadiennes et 1 française) oeuvrant dans les secteurs de la métallurgie et des télécommunications. Les données empiriques proviennent de 17 entrevues approfondies que nous ont accordées, au Canada, en France, en Allemagne et en Suisse des cadres responsables de la gestion des ressources humaines, affectés au siège social des EM en question ou œuvrant au sein de leurs filiales, et de sources documentaires secondaires.