Gernot Grabher and David Stark
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198290209
- eISBN:
- 9780191684791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198290209.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Political Economy
This chapter examines the motives of Western corporations investing in eastern Germany. It illustrates how the initial expectations for economic development in eastern Germany and in Eastern Europe ...
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This chapter examines the motives of Western corporations investing in eastern Germany. It illustrates how the initial expectations for economic development in eastern Germany and in Eastern Europe have been disappointed: this is due to the rising labour costs as the anticipation of growing markets faded. Secondly, it reconstructs the strategies adopted by Western corporations to cope with these unforeseen challenges of their investment in eastern Germany. Finally, the chapter evaluates the impacts that these strategies have had on regional development in eastern Germany.Less
This chapter examines the motives of Western corporations investing in eastern Germany. It illustrates how the initial expectations for economic development in eastern Germany and in Eastern Europe have been disappointed: this is due to the rising labour costs as the anticipation of growing markets faded. Secondly, it reconstructs the strategies adopted by Western corporations to cope with these unforeseen challenges of their investment in eastern Germany. Finally, the chapter evaluates the impacts that these strategies have had on regional development in eastern Germany.
Quentin R. Walsh
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034799
- eISBN:
- 9780813039688
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034799.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter provides an account of the whaling expedition of the Ulysses. The Ulysses was an oil tanker when it was purchased by the Western Operating Corporation. As this type of vessel, it was ...
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This chapter provides an account of the whaling expedition of the Ulysses. The Ulysses was an oil tanker when it was purchased by the Western Operating Corporation. As this type of vessel, it was reputed to have been a source of trouble. From the moment the idea of whaling under the American registry was conceived, the Western Operating Corporation felt that they were competing against time. The Ulysses was supposed to be on the Australian whaling grounds by June 1937, but apparently the idea for sending out the expedition did not surface until the autumn of 1936, and plans commenced in January 1937 meaning that time was incredibly tight. Furthermore, The Bulysses, a British tanker, also arrived alongside the Ulysses to take fifteen hundred tons of fuel oil from the factory ship.Less
This chapter provides an account of the whaling expedition of the Ulysses. The Ulysses was an oil tanker when it was purchased by the Western Operating Corporation. As this type of vessel, it was reputed to have been a source of trouble. From the moment the idea of whaling under the American registry was conceived, the Western Operating Corporation felt that they were competing against time. The Ulysses was supposed to be on the Australian whaling grounds by June 1937, but apparently the idea for sending out the expedition did not surface until the autumn of 1936, and plans commenced in January 1937 meaning that time was incredibly tight. Furthermore, The Bulysses, a British tanker, also arrived alongside the Ulysses to take fifteen hundred tons of fuel oil from the factory ship.
