‘Truly a European company’ : a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanisation

Research on international business presents ‘liability of foreignness’ as a key factor in a Multinational Enterprise’s (MNE’s) operations, but it has not addressed ‘foreignness’ as a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Adopting an identity work perspective, this article examines ‘foreignness’ as social construct, studying how a Chinese MNE manoeuvres the local economic and political contexts. We also shift the focus from ‘liability of foreignness’ to ‘liability of origin’, as elements associated with the home country can also implicate liability. We discuss the market entry of a private Chinese manufacturing company in Hungary and the Netherlands as a proxy for Europeanization, analysing regional and local strategies pursued by the company in organizing its business and representing its corporate identity when dealing with divergent European contexts

Impact of Nucleon Mass Shift on the Freeze Out Process

The freeze out of a massive nucleon gas through a finite layer with time-like normal is studied. The impact of in-medium nucleon mass shift on the freeze out process is investigated. A considerable modification of the thermodynamical variables temperature, flow-velocity, energy density and particle density has been found. Due to the nucleon mass shift the freeze out particle distribution functions are changed noticeably in comparison with evaluations, which use vacuum nucleon mass.Comment: submitted to Physical Review

A Formaxol dry® takarmány-kiegészítő hatásának vizsgálata a növendék és hízónyulak termelésére és egészségi állapotára

À la suite de plusieurs découvertes en milieu urbain, ces vingt dernières années, de nouveaux sites religieux connus par les sources, comme celui de Luxeuil ou ignorés de celles-ci comme la basilique funéraire de la Rue Maraval à Marseille, nous avons souhaité avec Sébastien Bully, réfléchir à partir d’études de cas, sur les choix qui ont pu être faits ou qui peuvent être faits pour conserver in situ des témoignages souvent rares si ce n’est exceptionnels.  Nous sommes loin de l’époque où l’a..

4% és 8% kakukkfű kiegészítés vizsgálata a növendék és a hízónyulak termelésére és egészségi állapotára

The switch to retirement cannot be reduced to a date that separates two disjointed periods of existence in a strict way. On one hand, this switch takes place on a certain duration of time, before and after the formal date when activity stops. One the other hand, retirement is the occasion to undertake activities, whether new ones or the prolongation of former ones, that spring from the individuals’anterior path. More precisely, this particular switch is an occasion to think again on the organisation of social temporalities, and to rearticulate activities in a new way : professional activities (for the ones who keep a job along their retirement) as well as family, artistic, leisure activities. A diversity of retirement paths can be derived from this constatation, as can be observed from the variety of activities that pensioners undertake. This diversity reflects a certain autonomy in the choices that actors make, but it also depends on the choices (« capabilites ») that they can actually reach. In this sense, this paper reviews the advantages and limits of an approach in terms of an « enabling environment », in order to account for the unequal distribution of the capabilities to grasp the opportunities of retirement. More precisely, an « enabling environment » is considered here as all the temporal frameworks for the individuals to build their life paths before retirement. In this sense, three temporal frameworks can be identified : the macro-economic policies, business (or sector) policies, and family biographies. Each of these three frameworks hosts tensions between rigid « accounting time » and more flexible « lived time ». Depending on what will come out of these tensions, individuals will or won’t be able to develop the capabilities to think about their temporal organisation and to invent « time for themselves » when they switch towards retirement