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The internationalization's process of emerging countries' multinational firms (EMNF) challenges the theoretical approaches in international business. This work aims to identify the specificities of EMNF's internationalization through the study of JBS, a Brazilian firm world leader in meat production. Based on internal company data and a collection of secondary information, we have traced around fifty acquisition operations in Brazil and abroad. Our results confirm that the EMNFs' internationalization process follows a specific trajectory compared to those revealed by last internationalization models (Born Global, Springbaord, Casino): strong financial dimension, acquisitions of subsidiaries of international groups, then used to acquire other firms, controlled geographical expansion and aimed at securing supply and distribution, and strong support from financial and political national institutions.
Keywords: FMN, pays émergents, internationalisation, Brésil, viande, MNF, emergent countries, internationalization, Brazil, meat, EMN, países emergentes, internacionalización, Brasil, carne
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Development western-style has finally caught up with the tiny Pacific Islands. Using the Solomon Islands as a case study, the author assesses the effects of development on the economic and social well being of the tiny country. He balances the monolithic western model of development based on the exportation of raw resources and wealth out of the country, with a more sensible approach that would make use of local know-how and skills, and would allow for the establishment of a small-scale but sustainable form of development.
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SummaryWith the coming of the new technologies (NT), we are witness to radical and far-reaching structural changes in the state and in the law. The capacity of NTs to process enormous quantities of data at prodigious speeds and the development of artificial intelligence have had as a consequence that the administration of justice can now be automated. It is even possible to conceive of a system for preventive social hygiene, a system which is already partially in place in West Germany. Such a revolution is closer to the Brave New World than to 1984. Nevertheless, structures for self-management can, in principle, be set up with the help of NTs. But to do this, another technology, a democratized NT, would have to be developed.
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AbstractABSTRACTMots clés : Hours, Selim, terrain, domination, politique, éthique, nonnesAnthropology Confronting Political Domination : Practices and AxiologiesThis paper analyses the production of ethics from the experience of several fieldworks under strong political domination (colonial, communist). It assumes that ethical production in anthropology must be based on the analysis of social relations in the field, including the researchers themselves. Ethical production is not an abstract set of formai and external values, nor only activistic militant involvement into a political fight or process.Key words : Hours. Selim, field, domination, politics. ethics. norms
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In February 2022, during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, China became the centre of interest of the planet during the two weeks of this international sporting event. On that occasion, the Asian giant had the opportunity to demonstrate its soft power. Now an essential element in the expression of the power of great nations, it illustrates the states' ability to seduce through their model. As a concept defined by Joseph Nye in 1990, this article proposes to review the implementation of soft power in China and to evaluate its effectiveness through a case study of the various efforts deployed by Beijing in that direction.
Keywords: Chine, Nye, Tianxia, influence, Institut Confucius, diplomatie culturelle, hégémonie, China, soft power, Nye, Tianxia, influence, Confucius Institute, cultural diplomacy, hegemony
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SummaryTaking stock of contemporary studies in the sociology of development, especially in its neo-Marxist version, leads one rapidly to the acknowledgement of a crisis, if not of an impasse. The object of this paper is to show how this impasse could be transcended. A critical re-examination of the notions of metatheory and of theory as they relate to empirical research makes it possible to identify the confusion we now see between these two, and supplies the necessary elements for a better linkage between metatheory and empirical research. A program of research in the sociology of development is outlined on the basis of the compatibility between such different theories as those of dependency reversal and the feminist theories of gender and development.