Exporting to Eastern Europe : principles and practice, including a case study of the market for fire fighting equipment

East-West trade has grown rapidly since the sixties, stimulating a parallel expansion in the literature on the subject. An extensive review of this literature shows how: (i) most of the issues involved have at their source the distinctions between East and West in political ideology and/or economic management, and (ii) there has been a tendency to keep theoretical and practical perspectives on the subject too separate. This thesis demonstrates the importance of understanding the fundamental principles implied in the first point, and represents an attempt to bridge the gap identified in the second. A detailed study of the market for fire fighting equipment in Eastern Europe is undertaken in collaboration with a medium-sized company, Angus Fire Armour Limited. Desk research methods are combined with visits to the market to assess the potential for the company's products, and recommendations for future strategy are made. The case demonstrates the scope and limitations of various research methods for the East European market, and a model for market research relevant to all companies is developed. Tne case study highlights three areas largely neglected in the literature: (i) the problems of internal company adaptation to East European conditions; (ii) the division of responsibility between foreign trade organisations; and (iii) bribery and corruption in East-West trade. Further research into the second topic - through a survey of 36 UK exporters - and the third - through analysis of publicised corruption cases - confirms the representativeness of the Angus experience, and reflects on the complexity of the Bast European import process, which does not always function as is commonly supposed. The very complexity of the problems confronting companies reaffirms the need to appreciate the principles underlying the subject, while the detailed analysis into questions of, originally, a marketing nature, reveals wider implications for East-West trade and East-West relations.

The Presidents in the French Fifth Republic

This volume brings together French and British scholars of France to analyse one of French politics' most intellectually compelling phenomena, the presidency of the republic. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of that leadership as well as the way that executive power has been established in the Fifth Republic; how presidential power and the subsequent full scale development of 'personality politics' developed within an essentially party-driven, democratic and, most importantly, republican system. Hence the authors in this volume examine the phenomenon of a strong presidency in the French republican framework. The individual chapters focus on the presidency and upon the individual presidents and the way in which they have addressed their own relation to the presidencies they presided over on top of a range of other factors informing their terms of office. A conclusion sums up and appraises the contemporary role of the French presidency within the party system and the republic. The project has generated a great deal of interest in the French political studies community.

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Exchange of Prisoners in the West Indies in Queen Anne’s War by Ruth Bourne – Winthrop College College Textbook Treatments of American History by Jess C. Burt, Jr. – Presbyterian College The Report of the French Minster of War to the National Legislative Assembly, January 11, 1792 by Charles N. Sisson – Coker College

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Christopher Gadsden and the Stamp Act by Robert H. Woody –Duke University The Nullification Controversy in an Up-Country District by J. Mauldin Lesesne – Greenville High School The Constitutional Organization and Mobilization of the National Guards of the French Revolution by Charles N. Sisson – Coker College The Mud-Sill Theory in South Carolina by Rosser H. Taylor – Furman University “Addressers of Clinton and Arbuthnot” edited by Robert W. Barnwell, Jr. Appendix-Letters and Papers of Governor David Johnson and Family, 1810-1855 by Florence Johnson Scott

Défense des trois chapitres (à Justinien) /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138) and indexes.

Le prisonnier de Ham.

Mode of access: Internet.

Napoleon III. (My recollections)

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Louis Napoleon und der Staatsreich vom 2 December, 1851.

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La politique impériale, exposée par les discours et proclamations de l'empéreur Napoléon III, depuis le 10 décembre jusqu'en février 1868.

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Geschichte Julius Cäsars. Vom verfasser autorisirte uebersetzung. ...

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Le voyage de S.M. l'Empereur Napoléon III en Algérie et la régence de S.M. l'Impératrice, mai-juin 1865 / rédigé d'après les documents officiels précédé d'une notice historique & suivi de biographies par René De Saint-Félix.

Includes bibliographical references.

Histoire tintamarresque de Napoléon III : illustrée de nombreux dessins noirs et coloriés ... /

Issued in 100 livraisons, 1873-74.

Histoire de Jules César.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Des Prokopius von Cȧsarea Geschichte seiner Zeit /

1. Bd. Persische Denkwürdigkeiten -- 2. Bd. Wandalische Denkwürdigkeiten -- 3.-4. Bd. Gothische Denkwürdigkeiten.