Titlebook: Canada-UK Bilateral Trade and Investment Relations; Peter J. Buckley,Christopher L. Pass,Kate Prescott Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a div

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Book 1995l (Canada-UK) and regional bloc (European Union-North American Free Trade Association) setting. Part 1 examines Canadian-UK trade and investment flows and policies. Part 2 presents an empirical investigation of the experiences of a sample of Canadian firms with business interests in the UK and the E

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Introductionl economy. The context of Canada—UK bilateral economic relations has changed radically over the past two decades. The UK’s entry to the European Community (EC, now the European Union) in 1973 and the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement have accelerated economic integration on both si

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Foreign Trade: Theory, Policies and Institutionsnentalism’, that is, should they seek to diversify their import sources and export destinations or tie themselves in more closely with fewer, more geographically — proximate trade partners? The logic of ‘comparative advantage’ suggests extensive multilateral trade relationships are preferable to nar

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UK—Canadian Trade and Direct Investment: Summary and Conclusionct in part changes in the commodity structure of UK foreign trade, particularly the increase in importance of imports of finished manufactures, and the trade creating and trade-diversionary crosscurrents ensuing from general (GATT) and regional (European Community) free trade initiatives.

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The Survey: A Profile of the Firms and their Industriescontext of integration into the NAFTA and the EC respectively. Part II examines the impact that recent changes have had on the strategies of UK and Canadian firms. Personal, in-depth interviews were conducted with senior executives of leading firms of both countries in late 1992 and early 1993. Inte

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Competitivenesstional arena (see Porter, 1980, 1985 and 1986). Because markets are not static and change dramatically over time under the pressure of new technologies, new entrants, changing economic conditions and new business practices, the consequent challenge for firms centres on managing the process of compet