Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Third Quarter 2002 I magine a world where your favorite bank is like Starbucks: you can find a branch at every corner, in every city on the globe. Imagine a world where in emerging markets all banks are international because local banks have either disappeared or been bought out. The world just described is not as distant from reality ...

Drawing on the notion of springboard subsidiary, this study extends previous theoretical literature to provide empirical evidence on how headquarters configure relationships and organize activities with the subsidiary’s network, as well as the mechanisms to create added value by using this entry strategy. We conducted a qualitative study to explore the determinants, development and dynamic evol...

Approximately 1 week before the publication of the 2017 Hypertension Clinical Practice Guidelines, Prof Marc Twagirumukiza, African Society of Hypertension Executive General Secretary, Prof Oh Min Sen Vernon, Asian Society of Hypertension President, Dr Joey P. Granger, American Heart Association Council on Hypertension Chair, Prof Konstantinos Tsioufis, European Society of Hypertension Presiden...

In 1990, the United Nations, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, initiated the organization of a series of annual Workshops on Basic Space Science for the benefit of astronomers and space scientists in Asia and the Pacific, Latin American and the Caribbean, Africa, Western Asia, and Europe. This article summarizes accomplishments of these Workshops (1991-1998) and their follow-up pro...