Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

This paper provides new empirical insights into the source of investment adjustment costs. In contrast to prior models of investment that gave only ad hoc treatment to the concept of adjustment costs, my analysis pays serious micro-level attention to investment adjustment processes and their dynamics. I construct a structural dynamic model that predicts the lumpy and episodic patterns of mainfr...

Investment casting has been the most widely used process for several centuries for producing components of excellent surface finish, dimensional accuracy and complex shapes. In the present study, work has been done to select a correct wax type with minimum shrinkage for further investment casting process of aerospace components. Wax Patterns were made with different types of waxes namely Patter...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Patterns of development predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, and ethnic differences therein, but it remains unclear why apparently 'adaptive plasticity' in early life should generate health costs in later life. We hypothesized that offspring receiving low maternal investment during fetal life, the primary period of organogenesis, should predict a shorter reproduc...

To survive in the ceaseless cycle of competition, businesses have developed strategies to become sustainable. These strategies include reusing products, which can lead not only to the creation of economic benefits but also to improvements in a corporation’s social and environmental responsibility. Product reuse can also increase the profit earned on new products by compensating customers who br...