Knights of the roundtable: Can they move Europe forward fast enough?
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The chairman of Volvo, Pehr Gyllenhammar, also heads an international organization known as the Roundtable of European Industrialists. A short history of this group, it aims and objectives as far as curbing European unemployment and promoting technological innovation, and the politics and in-fighting among various of the 27 members of the group are discussed. Members of the group represent such corporations as: Siemens, Fiat, Thyssen, Olivetti, Bosch, Ciba-Geigy, Nestle, Renault, Plessey, Pirelli, Pilkington and ASEA. Membership fees amount to 30,000 ECUs per year. Among the projects encouraged and partially financed by this group is the English Channel Tunnel undertaken by England and France, and creation of the venture capital firm known as Euroventures BV (based in Amsterdam).
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1986
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Coping with the 'new protectionism': how companies are learning to love it
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Robert L. McNeil, who heads the Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT), a group of 63 of the largest U.S. multinational corporations, explains how this lobbying group made the transition from fighting for free trade to fighting for fair trade. Apparently ECAT and the multinationals it represents are drifting toward protectionism. McNeil also identifies Philips (of the Netherlands) and Motorola (of the U.S.) as the two companies most outspoken in favor of protectionism. Various methods of protectionism and the reasons for the perceived need of it are examined with regard to trade among American, European and Japanese companies. Both high-tech and 'rust belt' industry participants are included in this examination, along with U.S. automobile manufacturers.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1986
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Industry must take the lead in European initiatives
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Industrial leadership is required to reverse the decline in Europe's world economic ranking. Europe's share of the world's gross domestic product declined from 47 to 37 percent in the last ten years, with increased unemployment. Europeans need to: (1) be increasingly competitive in world markets, (2) be more tolerant of innovation, (3) change old ways of thinking, and (4) improve the quality of information used in business. Japan and the US represent a continuing challenge, since they can base global business strategies on large, homogeneous domestic markets. Europe could match that advantage by dropping physical, technical, and monetary barriers among the 12 member states of the European Economic Community.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1987
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