Multinacionales españolas en un mundo global y multipolar


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Bancos y empresas españolas durante la última década del siglo XX, tras su expansión vertiginosa en América Latina, se convirtieron en multinacionales, para posteriormente transformarse en globales, ganando tamaño, poder, influencia y presencia internacional. Nuevamente se podía decir en verdad: sol mihi semper lucet, el sol brilla siempre sobre mí. Con la llegada de la crisis, de extrema dureza y consecuencias insospechadas para las economías desarrolladas, se ha hecho más evidente la irrupción de los países emergentes, que con sus empresas multinacionales como punta de lanza, han transfigurado la economía mundial en latitud y longitud. España y sus multinacionales ante esta gravísima sacudida, que depara unas realidades inéditas en el sistema económico y financiero mundial, deben estratégicamente hacerle frente desde la colaboración-cooperación pública-privada si no quieren perder tamaño, poder, influencia y presencia internacional. En tanto, la globalización avanza y se hace multipolar, los países incrementan sus interrelaciones en todas las direcciones, y las multinacionales adquieren nuevas dimensiones en el renovado tablero del ajedrez económico mundial. Esto provoca que, economías desarrolladas como la española, cambien de modelo productivo y reconfiguren su economía en sintonía con la nueva era de la información y el conocimiento, haciendo que sus empresas intensifiquen su eficiencia, imagen y competitividad en un mundo amplificado por los países emergentes, que continuarán ganando protagonismo a lo largo del siglo XXI. El autor, analiza las consecuencias y alcance de este Zeitgeist o nuevo espíritu de los tiempos, a la vez que propone un amplio y riguroso debate abierto a las ideas que surjan de la interacción con los lectores, y con todos aquellos interesados en recuperar y potenciar el papel y lugar que verdaderamente le corresponde a España y sus multinacionales en este nuevo mundo global y multipolar del presente siglo. El CD incluye lecturas complementarias, documentos de interés y estadísticas de economía internacional y empresas multinacionales españolas. Ramón Casilda Béjar, es economista y master en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por ICADE, Universidad de Comillas. Actualmente, ejerce su actividad profesional en calidad de asesor de la presidencia de BT Global Services para América Latina. Índice: Parte I: La globalización y las empresas multinacionales.- La globalización.- La globalización y las tres principales escuelas de pensamiento.- La globalización y la economía internacional.- La globalización y las empresas multinacionales.- Parte II: España en un mundo global en crisis.- Un mundo global en crisis.- España en la crisis global.- Parte III: España y sus multinacionales. Compitiendo en la nueva geografía económica global y multipolar del siglo XXI.- España y sus multinacionales en la nueva geografía económica global y multipolar del siglo XXI.- España y la marca país en la globalización.- Parte IV: Inversión extranjera directa en el mundo y las multinacionales españolas. Parte V: Conclusiones.




The Decade of the Multilatinas


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Latin American multinationals (multilatinas) have been central in the rise of emerging markets in the last few decades. Their development comprises part of the global shift of wealth and power between nations. The rise of firms in a broad range of sectors - including construction, oil, telecommunications and the aeronautical industry - as important regional and global players is spreading: companies in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and many others are part of this increasing phenomenon. This book analyses the trends, the countries and the firms involved, and explores the implications for the US, China, Spain and the rest of Europe. In particular, Javier Santiso examines how Spain might profit from positioning itself as a unique hub between Europe and Latin America. The Decade of the Multilatinas includes a wide range of statistical data which will be useful to scholars, policymakers and commentators on Latin America in particular, and international business and emerging markets more generally.




Rethinking Productive Development


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Productive transformation requires seizing the opportunities available and opening new ones in a competitive world. Rethinking Productive Development examines the market failures impeding transformation and the government failures that may make the policy remedies worse than the market illness. To address market failures, the authors propose a simple conceptual framework based on the scope and nature of the policy approach. They then systematically analyze country policies through this lens in key areas such as innovation, new firms, financing, human capital, and internationalization to show the power of this way of thinking. Still, the book warns that policymakers cannot be sure what the right policy interventions are and must set up a process to discover them that calls for public-private collaboration. Recognizing that the risk of capture needs to be checked and that even the best policies will fail without the technical, organizational, and political capacity to implement them, the book concludes with ideas on how to design institutions fostering the right incentives and how to grow public sector capabilities over time.




Machineries of Persuasion


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Over the last two decades, public diplomacy has become a central area of research within Cold War studies. Yet, this field has been dominated by studies of the United States' soft power practices. However, the so-called 'cultural dimension' of the Cold war was a much more multifaceted phenomenon. Little attention has been paid to European actors' efforts to safeguard a wide range of strategic and political interests by seducing foreign publics. This book includes a series of works which examine the soft power techniques used by various European players to create a climate of public opinion overseas which favored their interests in the Cold war context. This is a relevant book for three reasons. First, it contains a wide variety of case studies, including Western and Eastern, democratic and authoritarian, and core and peripheral European countries. Second, it pays attention to little studied instruments of public diplomacy such as song contests, sport events, tourism and international solidarity campaigns. Third, it not only concentrates on public diplomacy programs deployed by governments, but also on the role played by some non-official actors in the cultural Cold War in Europe




Spanish in the United States


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This collection of original papers presents current research on linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States. The authors examine such topics as language maintenance and language shift, language choice, the bilingual's discourse patterns, varieties of Spanish used in the United States, and oral proficiency testing of bilingual speakers. In view of the fact that Hispanics constitute the largest linguistic minority in the United States, the pioneering work in the area of sociolinguistic issues in the U.S. Spanish presented here is of great importance.




Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet


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"Now in paperback, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet surveys the energy driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape: Russia, the battered Cold War loser, is now the arrogant broker of Eurasian energy, and the United States, once the world's superpower, must now compete with the emerging "chindia" juggernaut for finite resources. Forecasting a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger, Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, argues that the only route to surival in our radically altered world lies through international cooperation"--Book cover




The Foreign Policy of the European Union


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"Explores European foreign policy and the degree of European Union success in proposing itself as a valid international actor, drawing from the expertise of scholars and practitioners in many disciplines. Addresses issues past and present, theoretical and practice-oriented, and country- and region-specific"-- Provided by publisher.




Spain and the European Union


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Spain's membership of the European Union since 1986 has had a major impact. Driven primarily by political concerns to secure democracy, membership has also served as a catalyst to dynamic economic development in Spain. This book analyzes how the EU has helped shape the political process in Spain, focusing on the key institutions and the policy process. At the same time, Spain's increasingly proactive role within the EU is also explored, with particular attention given to the country's international position in post-Cold War Europe.




The Future of Development


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On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well. The authors argue that it is possible for everyone on the planet to live well, but only if we learn to live as communities rather than as individuals and to nurture our respective commons. Scholars and students of global development studies are well-aware that development is a difficult concept. This thought-provoking book offers them advice for the future of development studies and hope for the future of humankind.




Spain and EC Membership Evaluated


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