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This multifaceted, decision-oriented case requires you to address several issues in performance evaluation in an international context. In the process of reviewing the annual performance of its foreign subsidiaries, Falcon's CEO raises concerns about the performance evaluation metric and the effect of exchange rate changes on the competitive positions of foreign subsidiary managers in Denmark and Japan. The case requires you to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Falcon's performance evaluation system, examine the appropriateness of country managers' responses to exchange rate changes, understand the difference between evaluation of business units and their respective managers, and recommend improvements in the performance evaluation system.

Betrayal in High Places, a book written in 1996 by the late James MacKay, has created debate among World War II historians and former prisoners of war (POWs) because it claims to reveal suppressed Allied reports of Japanese war atrocities, such as the massacre of 387 American, Australian, British, and Dutch POWs in a gold mine at Aikawa on Sado Island, Japan, in 1945. Our investigation finds that the Sado Island massacre report is an intentional forgery, and that MacKay's book is a spurious historical source. We explain why he sought to deceive the public and contrast his fiction with the historical truth about Sado Island.

Abstract.  Production and marketing lags in agri‐food supply chains often force agricultural producers and food processors to commit to output targets before prices and exchange rates are realized. A theoretical model illustrates how the processor's degree of risk aversion and domestic sales may cause the relationship between volatility of the exchange rate and exports to be non‐monotonic. The relationship between exchange rate volatility and Quebec pork exports to the United States and Japan is investigated using linear and non‐linear estimation methods. The results support the hypothesis that the relationship between exports and volatility is non‐monotonic.

A new 45-industry, 23-year, dataset for Japan is used to investigate the duration of industry leadership. A new scaling relationship linking a firm's current market share with the standard deviation of market share changes is reported. This relationship discriminates in a powerful way between rival candidate theoretical models of market share dynamics. It also makes possible a useful simplification in testing a benchmark model of a Markovian kind. Relative to that model, it is found that at least some industries display a "Chandlerian" bias toward longer durations of leadership than would be present in the benchmark model. (JEL D43, L13)

Never before in history have China and Japan been great powers at the same time. Today they must figure out how to live together as equals. The promise of mutual prosperity ties them together; the remembrance of bad things past pushes them apart.If that wary dance were not complicated enough, a nuclear provocateur from neighboring North Korea intrudes. A legendary figure of Japan's post‐war miracle, Tsuneo Watanabe, weighs in on these big questions. Hans Blix, a former UN arms inspector and the former South Korean prime minister and Nobel laureate, Kim Dae Jung, address the North Korean conundrum.

Never before in history have China and Japan been great powers at the same time. Today they must figure out how to live together as equals. The promise of mutual prosperity ties them together; the remembrance of bad things past pushes them apart.If that wary dance were not complicated enough, a nuclear provocateur from neighboring North Korea intrudes. A legendary figure of Japan's post‐war miracle, Tsuneo Watanabe, weighs in on these big questions. Hans Blix, a former UN arms inspector and the former South Korean prime minister and Nobel laureate, Kim Dae Jung, address the North Korean conundrum.

Never before in history have China and Japan been great powers at the same time. Today they must figure out how to live together as equals. The promise of mutual prosperity ties them together; the remembrance of bad things past pushes them apart.If that wary dance were not complicated enough, a nuclear provocateur from neighboring North Korea intrudes. A legendary figure of Japan's post‐war miracle, Tsuneo Watanabe, weighs in on these big questions. Hans Blix, a former UN arms inspector and the former South Korean prime minister and Nobel laureate, Kim Dae Jung, address the North Korean conundrum.

Never before in history have China and Japan been great powers at the same time. Today they must figure out how to live together as equals. The promise of mutual prosperity ties them together; the remembrance of bad things past pushes them apart.If that wary dance were not complicated enough, a nuclear provocateur from neighboring North Korea intrudes. A legendary figure of Japan's post‐war miracle, Tsuneo Watanabe, weighs in on these big questions. Hans Blix, a former UN arms inspector and the former South Korean prime minister and Nobel laureate, Kim Dae Jung, address the North Korean conundrum.

This article originally appeared in "World Affairs" in March 1938, volume 101, Number 1. Describes the impacts of Hitler's German Reichstag speech that called for a return of the colonies taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. The withdrawal of Japan, Germany, & Italy from the League of Nations & the Spanish Civil War already presented threats to the international cooperation established by the Versailles Treaty. The British response to the destabilization sought to reestablish European peace directly through Germany, Italy, & France. Prime Minister Chamberlain bypassed the complicated machinery of the League of Nations in order to maintain European peace for at least one generation. J. Harwell

Das Muster westlicher Interventionspolitik ist von Bosnien über Kosovo, nach Afghanistan bis in den Irak immer dasselbe: Nach erfolgreicher militärischer Intervention werden die "eroberten" Gebiete in Protektorate umgewandelt und die westliche Staatenbildung setzt sich zum Ziel, liberale politische Systeme, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und freie Marktwirtschaft in diesen Gebieten einzuführen. Zur Rechtfertigung der Unterhaltung von Protektoraten wird ferner oftmals auf die erfolgreichen externen Staatenbildungsprozesse in Deutschland, Japan und Italien verwiesen. Angesichts der unbestreitbaren Erfolge, die die USA und ihre Alliierten in diesen drei Ländern unmittelbar nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges erzielten, stellt sich nach Ansicht des Autors die Frage, warum einige externe Staatenbildungsprozesse erfolgreich sind, während andere scheitern oder im Begriff sind zu scheitern. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, nimmt der Autor zunächst eine nähere Begriffsbestimmung des Protektorats vor und beschreibt anschließend drei Bedingungen für ein erfolgreiches Management von Protektoraten: die Akzeptanz des Protektorats durch die Bevölkerung, eine gute Nachbarschaft der Nachkriegsgesellschaften und ein temporärer Protektoratszustand. Er skizziert abschließend zukünftige Strategien der westlichen Staatengemeinschaft vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass in Bosnien, Kosovo, Afghanistan und im Irak keine der drei Bedingungen gegeben sind. (ICI2)

The geopolitical rivalry over the Caucasus has continued into the third millennium; new chessmen have joined the old ones (Turkey, Iran, and Russia) on the "Caucasian chessboard." The newcomers-the European Union, the U.S., Japan, China, and the Southeast Asian countries-have plunged into a game that has been going on for some time. Amid the unfolding rivalry, Azerbaijan is developing into the dominant element in the Caucasian geopolitical game. The fight for Baku as the key to the region's resources and territorial riches goes back into the past. The author tells the story of the rivalry over Baku, the "window to the Caucasus."

Die Welt erlebte in den vergangenen Jahren die Wiederkehr des internationalen Wettstreits zwischen den Großmächten, wobei die Vereinigten Staaten, Russland, China, Europa, Japan, Indien, der Iran und andere Nationen um die regionale Vorherrschaft konkurrieren. Das Ringen um Ehre, Prestige und Einfluss in der Welt ist wieder einmal zu einem entscheidenden Merkmal der weltpolitischen Szene geworden. Der Wettstreit zwischen Liberalismus und Absolutismus macht sich erneut bemerkbar, wobei die Nationen der Welt sich wie in der Vergangenheit zunehmend aufgrund ideologischer Prinzipien zusammenschließen. Ferner gibt es noch die Bruchlinie zwischen Moderne und Tradition, der gewaltsame Kampf der islamischen Fundamentalisten gegen die modernen Mächte und die säkularen Kulturen, die ihrer Ansicht nach in die islamische Welt eingedrungen sind und sie beschmutzt haben. Wie werden die Vereinigten Staaten mit einer solchen Welt umgehen? Der Autor stellt in Beantwortung dieser Frage die These auf, dass die amerikanische Vorherrschaft dem Fortschritt zu einer besseren Welt nicht im Wege steht, jedoch dem Rückschritt zu einer gefährlicheren Welt. Er diskutiert die Rolle Chinas und Russlands bei der Gestaltung der zukünftigen internationalen Ordnung, das Verhältnis zwischen Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten sowie die Herausforderungen durch den Islamismus. (ICI2)

Book reviewed in this article:Bioevolution: How Biotechnology is Changing Our World, by Michael FumentoCommunity and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. FieldSocial Assessment: Theory, Process and Techbiques, 3rd ed., by C. Nicholas Taylor, C. Hobson Bryan and Colin G. GoodrichThe Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment: Rabel J. Burdge and Colleagues, by Rabel J. BurdgeWearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice, edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. TraphaganThe Virtual Farmer: Past, Present and Future of the Dutch Peasantry, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Abstract.  This paper examines the degree of financial integration that exists in East Asian equity markets using the International Capital Asset Pricing Model methodology. We employ three market portfolios to test for integration: the weighted average equity index of all sample countries, the Japanese market index and the US market index. The study shows that the level of financial efficiency and the integration of sample countries is high and has improved significantly during 1991 to 2005, and they are more financially integrated within the region and with the Asian leading market (Japan) than with the world leading market (the USA).

In general, firm‐level data are not available among foreign sellers to enable researchers to compute market concentration in open markets, and especially trade's contribution to this concentration. We implement a theory‐based procedure from a generalized Brander–Krugman framework that can be used to estimate foreign contribution to market concentration, using industrial trade and activity data only and without any need for firm‐level data. The results suggest a foreign contribution to concentration of around 30%–50% for small European economies and 20%–30% for larger European countries. Market structure is less affected by openness in the USA and Japan.