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11	Global value chains (GVC) and social learning : developing producer capabilities in smallholder farmers : the case of San Francisco Produce/Peninsula Organics (SFP/PO) Villa Rodríguez, Abel Osvaldo January 2018 (has links) The thesis examines how resource-poor smallholder farmers in Mexico are integrated into a Global Value Chain. Most Global Value Chains depend on production located in developing countries. In agriculture, Global Value Chain tend to concentrate production in large enterprises and exclude smallholder farmers. The logic of Global Value Chains is to reduce the cost of production by allocating low value activities, such as production of commodities to developing countries to take advantage of cheap labour cost. High value activities such as branding, marketing and product development remain in high income countries. The thesis consists of the in-depth case study of San Francisco Produce/Peninsula Organics (SFP/PO) Global Value Chain. It is located throughout Southern Baja Peninsula in Mexico and San Francisco California, U.S.A. It sells organic certified produce to the American market, particularly California and east coast. SFP/PO was founded by a social entrepreneur and has been functioning for over 30 years. This Global Value Chain has an explicit social purpose. It focuses on integrating smallholder farmers into agricultural production. This value chain requires farmers to adopt organic production. The methods consisted of semi-structured interviews. In total, 50 interviews were conducted in Mexico to farmers that belong to the value chain in 9 co-operatives and 3 single farmers. The interviews focused on how farmers learned organic production to meet quality requirements of global buyers. The analysis uses three perspectives to explain the integration of smallholder farmers into SFP/PO and the development of organic production capabilities. First Global Value Chains are used to describe the network, connections and production activities smallholder farmers and global buyer carry out. The study sheds light on how the value chain achieves its social aims by using global markets and providing external inputs to improve farmers' livelihoods. Second, using Technological Capabilities the study explains the skills farmers need to develop to participate in the value chain. Third, a Communities of Practice perspective is used to explain how social learning is involved in developing production capabilities. The research explains how farmers collectively define competence and how they display three different levels of participation in the value chain, periphery, medium and full participation. And fourth, using the theory of Knowing in Action, the research explores co-learning between novice and expert farmers and the interactions among farmers that results in co-innovation to develop new technical solutions and crop varieties. The thesis presents a case of a value chain which is motivated by social purpose to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers. The study demonstrates that there is a change of ethos, where global value chain integrates farmers into agricultural production. These data highlight the importance of social structures which allow farmer-to-farmer connections which enhance novice farmer skills enabling interactions where there is respect, and negotiation of knowledge. These interactions take indigenous farmers' knowledge into account in ways that can be acknowledged and harnessed in the form of practices and techniques to produce globally marketable products.
12	Разработка стратегии выхода российской компании пищевой промышленности на международный рынок : магистерская диссертация / Сreating a strategy for the entry of a Russian food industry company into the international market Селезнев, П. М., Selesnev, P. M. January 2021 (has links) Магистерская диссертация посвящена разработке стратегии выхода российской компании пищевой промышленности на международный рынок в современных условиях. Выпускная квалификационная работа состоит из введения, трех глав, заключения и списка использованных источников. В первой главе рассмотрены теоретические аспекты стратегического планирования. Во второй главе проведен комплексный анализ финансово-хозяйственной деятельности ОАО «Меридиан» и дана оценка возможности ее выхода на международные рынки. Третья глава посвящена разработке алгоритма по выходу ОАО «Меридиан» на международные рынки. / The master's thesis is devoted to the development of a strategy for the entry of a Russian food industry company into the international market in modern conditions. The final qualifying work consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion and a list of sources used. The first chapter discusses the theoretical aspects of strategic planning. The second chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the financial and economic activities of Meridian OJSC and assesses the possibility of its entry into international markets. The third chapter is devoted to the development of an algorithm for the entry of Meridian into international markets. ФАКТОРЫ РАЗВИТИЯ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЕ РЫНКИ MASTER'S THESIS STRATEGIC PLANNING DEVELOPMENT FACTORS FOOD INDUSTRY INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
13	Visit Swedens marknadsstrategier : En kandidatuppsats om Visit Swedens val av internationella marknader jämfört med de regionala DMO:s prioriteringar / Visit Sweden's market strategies : A bachelor thesis on Visit Sweden's choice of international markets compared to how the regional DMO:s priorities. Patko, Adam, Issa, Muhinde, Geralf, Belinda January 2019 (has links) Huvudsyftet med denna uppsats är att förstå vad det finns för olika prioriteringar bland Visit Sweden och de regionala DMO:s när det kommer till en inriktning av den inkommande internationella turismen till Sverige. Vidare är vårt delsyfte att ta reda på hur samarbetet mellan Visit Sweden och de regionala destination managementorganisationer, s.k. DMO:s, förhåller sig och hör ihop med varandra. Vi har använt oss utav kvalitativ metod med olika former av intervjuer från de utförda intervjuerna med Visit Sweden och det regionala DMO:s samt även textmaterial från Visit Swedens webbsida. Teorierna är vetenskapliga artiklar som vi anser anknyter till det valda ämnet samt den insamlade empirin. I resultaten utifrån den insamlade empiri framgår det att Visit Sweden inte ser själva att de väljer specifika marknader, men att de erkänner att de väljer fokusmarknader när det gäller de olika länderna. Visit Swedens val handlar bl.a. om de ser en potential att resenärer i respektive länder vill besöka Sverige. Detta kan ändras över tid beroende på interna och externa faktorer. De utgår främst utifrån deras målgrupp den Globala resenären som enligt deras marknadsanalyser kan appliceras på flera olika länder som inte ingår i deras fokusmarknader. Det som också styr deras val av marknader och marknadssegment är deras ägare svenska staten och svensk turism AB, men också olika turismaktörer såsom små och stora, som t.ex. hotell som efterfrågar att få hjälp med marknadsföring gentemot internationella turister. Gällande hur de regionala DMO:s prioriteringar ser ut i förhållande till Visit Sweden kan vi konstatera att de flesta prioriterar likartat i förhållande till Visit Sweden. Däremot ser vi ett mönster då de regionala DMO:s som inte delar samma val av fokusmarknader väljer att marknadsföra sig på andra sätt. Detta görs trots det finns en möjlighet för samarbete med Visit Sweden även om fokusmarknaden inte är densamma. / Our main purpose with this bachelor thesis is to get an understanding of which different orientations currently exists when it comes to the incoming international tourism to Sweden. Furthermore, we want to find out how the collaboration between Visit Sweden and the regional destinations management organizations, called DMO:s is structured in relation to each other. We have chosen a qualitative method which includes several different types of interviews with Visit Sweden and the regional DMO:s as well as text material from Visit Sweden's website. The theories are scientific articles which we consider are suitable to our chosen subject and empirical data. The results based on the collected empirical evidence show that Visit Sweden does not see that they have choose specific markets, but they admit that they choose focus markets when it comes to countries. Among other things, Visit Sweden's choice is about when they see a potential that travelers in each country want to visit Sweden. This can change over time depending on internal and external factors. They are based primarily on their target group Global Traveler who according to their market analyzes can be applied to several different countries that are not included in their focus markets. What also controls the selection of markets and market segments are their owners the Swedish state and Swedish tourism AB, but also various tourism stakeholders such as small and large, for example hotels who seek help with marketing towards international tourists. When it comes to how regional DMO:s prioritize compared to Visit Sweden we can conclude that several of them prioritize in the same way as Visit Sweden. However, we see a pattern when regional DMO:s who do not share the same choice of focus markets choose to market themselves in other ways than cooperating with Visit Sweden. This happens despite of the fact that there is an opportunity for collaboration with Visit Sweden still even if their focus market is not the same. International markets target groups market segments regional DMO:s Visit Sweden´s Marketing Internationella marknader marknadssegment regionala DMO:s Visit Swedens marknadsföring Other Social Sciences Annan samhällsvetenskap Human Geography Kulturgeografi
14	Une mondialisation à domestiquer : sociologie d’une politique française des échanges audiovisuels internationaux (1984-2012) / Bringing globalization back home : sociology of a French policy handling international audiovisual exchanges (1984-2012) Lecler, Romain 13 November 2015 (has links) Qu'est-ce la mondialisation ? On répond à cette question à partir du cas de l'audiovisuel international, envisagé sous l'angle des échanges commerciaux et des politiques publiques. Une enquête a été menée de 2008 à 2012 au sein de l'administration, des ambassades et de diverses agences françaises ainsi que sur les marchés audiovisuels internationaux. On vérifie que la mondialisation, loin d'être une force économique s'imposant de l'extérieur, reste le produit de politiques visant à « dompter» ce qui semble dépasser le cadre national (comme la diffusion des contenus audiovisuels par satellite au tournant des années 1980), et peut toujours être rapportée à des enjeux « domestiques » (le terme de mondialisation étant lui-même instrumentalisé par de nombreux acteurs). La thèse examine d'abord comment l'administration s'est saisie de l'audiovisuel international, suscitant tout un entrepreneuriat bureaucratique au sein des Affaires étrangères, mais aussi une âpre compétition pour être nommé à la tête des nouvelles chaînes publiques transnationales, et conduisant au recrutement d'un réseau original de diplomates spécialistes de l'audiovisuel. On étudie ensuite l'essor considérable des marchés audiovisuels internationaux, leur rôle désormais central dans le commerce international des biens audiovisuels, et comment l'administration a soutenir la professionnalisation des exportateurs français. On analyse enfin le rôle fondamental des politiques d'exportation en analysant la promotion française de la diversité culturelle, négociée entre les professionnels et l'administration, profondément ambivalent et articulant des enjeux à la fois culturels, diplomatiques et marchands. / What is Globalization? We address this question by focusing on audiovisual flows worldwide, seen from the perspective of commercial exchanges and French public policies. From 2008 to 2012, several sites have been investigated such as the French administration, its diplomatic network abroad, public agencies and international markets. We argue that Globalization, far from being an economic force overhanging from abroad, is always something that has to be "brought home". First, it results from policies that aim at "taming" what exceeds the national frame (such as audiovisual contents broadcasted by satellite). Second, it always entails very "domestic" stakes. At first, we deal with the French administration, where a "foreign audiovisual policy'' has been launched in the 1980s, stirring up a sharp competition to be nominated at the head of new transnational public channels, and leading to the recruitment of diplomats specializing in this policy. Then, we assess the astonishing rise of international markets of movies and TV shows, describing how French sales agents, in the process of getting professional recognition, received a strong support from the French administration. This brings us to the thesis that export policies fundamentally shape Globalization by providing contradicting definitions of what it should be. ln France, the sales agents and the administration have been negotiating one built upon the principle of "cultural diversity", conveniently melting commercial, cultural and diplomatic stakes altogether, despite of the notion being deeply ambivalent. Mondialisation Entrepreneuriat démocratique Pratiques de nomination Chaines de télévision transnationale Diplomatie culturelle Marchés internationaux Echanges audiovisuels Politique d'exportation Diversité culturelle Globalization Audiovisual Commercial exchanges International markets 327
15	Strategie firmy při vstupu na zahraniční trhy / International Markets Entry Strategy Jílková, Lucie January 2009 (has links) The thesis comprises of three principal parts. The first part summarizes theoretical backround in the field of international markets expansion. It describes strategic management process as well as individual forms of international martets entry. The second part analyzes ČEZ Group strategy. The individual chapters assess recent activities of the company in domestic and international markets. The third part is dedicated to the analysis of a concrete business case, i.e. Turkey.
16	Destinationslojalitet i Stockholm : En studie om det strategiska arbetet mot internationella marknader ur ett destinationslojalitetsperspektiv Akkaya, Adam, Åberg, Maria January 2020 (has links) Over the past several years destination loyalty has begun to take up an increasing amount of focus within the tourism research field. While there are still a number of question marks of its different aspects and true value to the destination, the subject has been described as prioritized. On that account, the purpose of this study has been to seek understanding of how Stockholm relate to this, and how their expressed strategies towards the international market can be understood within a destination loyalty perspective. Furthermore, the DMO Visit Stockholm’s marketing and communication strategies towards foreign followers on digital platforms have been examined. To reach knowledge of this, a document study of Visit Stockholm and Svensk Turism was carried out, whereafter three interviews took place with representatives from these two organizations. Lastly, a netnographic examination was carried out of Visit Stockholm’s official webpage and their accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The results showed that strategies have yet to be expressed formally regarding destination loyalty, but that there is an awareness of the issue and that it most likely will play a bigger role in the future. In addition to that, there have been empirical findings which show that marketing and communication in fact is conducted, which can relate to destination loyalty. A challenge for Stockholm in the future will be to further take advantage of the possibilities that the digital channels offer. An active approach will be required in imposing new relations to followers and visitors, and in the retaining of existing relations. / Under de senaste åren har destinationslojalitet börjat ta upp alltmer fokus inom den turistiska forskningen. Medan det ännu finns kvar flera frågetecken över dess olika aspekter och egentliga värde för destinationen, så har ämnet beskrivits som speciellt prioriterat. Med anledning av det har syftet med denna undersökning varit att söka förståelse för hur Stockholm förhåller sig till detta, och hur deras uttalade strategier mot den internationella marknaden kan förstås utifrån ett destinationslojalitetsperspektiv. Vidare har undersökts hur DMO:n Visit Stockholms faktiska marknadsföring och kommunikation till utländska följare förs på digitala plattformar. För att nå denna kunskap utfördes en dokumentstudie av Visit Stockholm samt Svensk Turism, därefter ägde tre intervjuer rum med representanter från dessa två organisationer. Till sist utfördes även en netnografisk undersökning av Visit Stockholms officiella hemsida, samt deras konton på Facebook och Instagram. Resultaten visade att det ej i dagsläget finns några uttalade formella strategier kring destinationslojalitet, men att det finns en medvenhet kring frågan och att det troligtvis kommer att bli mer aktuellt i framtiden. Utöver detta har empiriska fynd gjorts som visar på att det faktiskt förs marknadsföring och kommunikation på sociala medier som kan kopplas till destinationslojalitet. En utmaning för Stockholm inför framtiden blir att ytterligare ta till vara på de möjligheter som de digitala kanalerna kan erbjuda. Ett aktivt arbete kommer att krävas inför skapandet av nya relationer till följare och besökare, samt bibehållandet av existerande relationer. Destination loyalty visitor loyalty marketing marketing strategies international markets repeat visitors repeat visitation Destinationslojalitet besökslojalitet marknadsföring marknadsföringsstrategi internationella marknader återkommande besökare återbesök Social and Economic Geography Social och ekonomisk geografi
17	Multi-level Interactions between Fisheries and Trade : Modeling intertwined social-ecological systems Elsler, Laura G. January 2018 (has links) Sustainable and equitable fisheries are central for addressing the challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. International trade, once presented by Walrasian economists as a panacea for fisheries development, has not markedly decreased poverty and has been related to the overexploitation of marine species. In this light the consequences of a continued expansion of seafood trade are highly uncertain and problematic. Two competing theoretical hypotheses predict either overexploitation or recovery of marine species when connected to international trade, respectively. The empirical literature finds trade relationships and connections of local fisheries to a large-volume market critical factors for social-ecological outcomes. Here, I combine these insights to show that multi-level links, between fishers & different markets (market manuscript) and marine species & trade relationships (squid manuscript), are critical to explain diverging social-ecological outcomes. In the market manuscript we model the transition from local, to multi-level (both local and global), to global markets in a two species fishery. We find this transition is non-linear, leading to fluctuations in species abundance as a result of abrupt switches between target species. Critical fluctuations of species abundance driven by new market connections are a result of large shifts in prices for one species and high asymmetries in expected income between the two species. The squid manuscript provides empirical and modeling evidence that cyclical changes in the ocean can drive social-ecological systems outcomes through changing interactions at multiple levels. The interactions between squid population and fishers and squid distribution and trading structures determines benefit distributions in the fishery. The lack of consideration of multi-level interactions related to trade in models for fisheries management is likely associated with a lack of processes for integrating the empirical and theoretical insights of two disciplines at the core of fisheries science. Social-ecological system scholars study more often empirical and fishery economics the theoretical aspects of interactions between trade and fisheries. One process suggested in this thesis to bridge insights from both disciplines in fishery models is the careful study of the important interactions in the empirical case. Comparison of these interactions with observed empirical interactions in other systems informs the model conceptualization that is then embedded in a theoretical framework. This leads to the development of models of intermediate complexity that integrate insights on regular structures and patterns observed in real social-ecological systems. The squid manuscript exemplifies this integration. We integrate observed multi-level links in a standard fishery model between the squid population fishers and traders, and thus better represent the empirical system. A continuous dialogue between empirics and theorycan help build models of intermediate complexity. To capture the complex elements of these social-ecological systems, in this young field of study, next to a continuous dialogue priority observed empirical dynamics can help question theoretical assumptions. This study seeks to contribute to the development of fisheries management models more suitable to face contemporary challenges of fisheries management by focusing on how multi-level interactions between fisheries and trade shape sustainable and equitable outcomes. multi-level interactions social-ecological model trade relationships complexity inequality in fisheries fisheries sustainability seafood trade international markets fisheries collapse Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap Economics Nationalekonomi
18	Volatility-managed portfolios in the international markets Hasanpour, Soroush, Adamsson, Emil January 2022 (has links) Volatility-managed portfolios offer mixed returns in an international setting based on ex-ante information. The results of this paper further strengthen the theory that the variability of excess returns from volatility-management are more dependent on underlying investor strategy rather than differences of global markets. We find that momentum strategies, as measured by the winners-minus-losers, are universally (except Japan) benefitted from volatility-management with an excess return between 6.96% and 14.28% annually across different regions/cross-sections garnered by the managed portfolio controlled against the Fama and French (2015) five-factor model. Value and profitability factors show mixed results with the beneficial performance in about half of the examined regions respectively. We prove that these relationships are robust through periods of market-wide crashes (Dotcom-bubble and financial crises of 2007/2008), tighter leverage constraints (≤1, ≤1.5) show however that the excess returns are dampened, concluding that access to leverage is a fundamental aspect of employing volatility-management to most portfolios. The results of this research paper expand previous literature of volatility-management by broadening the strategy to global markets. Financial Markets Asset-pricing asset pricing Equity Equity Markets Volatility Volatility-management international markets Volatility pricing Pricing anomalies Business Administration Företagsekonomi
19	Analýza výkonnosti investičních kovů a mincí / Efficiency of investment metals and coins analysis Tůmová, Kateřina January 2012 (has links) This project deals with historical precious metals price development as gold, silver, platinum and palladium in connection to analysis of the precious metals investment benefits. There are discussed international market prices and retail prices as well. There is also mentioned the issue of price structure from the premium and other costs point of view, including possible risks coupled with investment. Approximated are also basic terms and forms of investment metals, alternative options of precious metals investment as well. The project also includes the issue of tax investment aspects and other advantages connected to it. Further there is indicated medial disinformation criticism and insufficient legal support for customers investing to the precious metals.
20	International market selection-screening technique: replacing intuition with a multidimensional framework to select a short-list of countries Gould, Richard Robert, RichardGould@ozemail.com.au January 2002 (has links) The object of this research was to develop an international market screening methodology which selects highly attractive markets, allowing for the ranges in diversity amongst organisations, countries and products. Conventional business thought is that, every two to five years, dynamic organisations which conduct business internationally should decide which additional foreign market or markets to next enter. If they are internationally inexperienced, this will be their first market; if they are experienced, it might be, say, their 100th market. How should each organisation select their next international market? One previous attempt has been made to quantitatively test which decision variables, and what weights, should be used when choosing between the 230 countries of the world. The literature indicate that a well-informed selection decision could consider over 150 variables that measure aspects of each foreign market's economic, political, legal, cultural, technical and physical environments. Additionally, attributes of the organisation have not been considered when selecting the most attractive short-list of markets. The findings presented in the dissertation are that 30 criteria accounted for 95 per cent of variance at cross-classification rates of 95 per cent. The weights of each variable, and the markets selected statistically as being the most attractive, were found to vary with the capabilities, goals and values of the organisation. This frequently means that different countries will be best for different organisations selling the same product. A country demand filtering country attractiveness country selection choosing export countries choosing export markets choosing foreign markets choosing global markets choosing international markets export country attractiveness export country choice export country identification export country scanning export country screening export country selection export demand assessment export demand attractiveness export demand identification export demand potential export demand scanning export demand screening export market assessment export market attractiveness export market choice export market identification export market potential export market scanning export market screening export market selection foreign country assessment foreign country attractiveness foreign country choice foreign country potential foreign country selection foreign country screening foreign market assessment foreign market attractiveness foreign market choice foreign market identification foreign market potential foreign market scanning foreign market screening foreign market selection global market assessment global market attractiveness global market choice global market identification global market scanning global market screening global market selection international market assessment international market attractiveness international market choice international market identification international market potential international market scanning international market screening international market selection overseas country assessment overseas country attractiveness overseas country choice overseas country identification overseas country potential overseas country scanning overseas country screening overseas country selection overseas market assessment overseas market attractiveness overseas market choice overseas market identification overseas market potential overseas market scanning overseas market screening overseas market selection

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