Volume 9, Number 2, 2009
Table of contents (Full content of articles available in EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest)
Global talent management: The law of the few (David G. Collings, Anthony McDonnell, Hugh Scullion) [pdf - 145 kB]	5
1. Introduction	5
2. What is talent management?	7
3. The law of the few	10
4. Mavens	11
5. Connectors	12
6. Salespeople	14
7. Conclusion	16
Deregulation and the power of private surveillance in markets (James P. Cullen) [pdf - 199 kB]	19
1. Introduction	20
2. The current regulatory philosophy	20
3. Private surveillance in market regulation	23
4. Economic orthodoxy & future crises of capitalism	32
5. A regulatory response	35
Mechanism and sources of world economic growth (Stanisław Gomułka) [pdf - 164 kB]	39
1. Introduction	39
2. Duality of the world economy	40
3. The basic facts of economic growth	43
4. The Phelps model with corrections	47
5. Hat-shaped relationship for the TFA	48
6. Hat-shaped relationship for non-TFA countries	49
7. Problems with growth theory for non-TFA countries	50
8. The “unifi ed” theory of Parente and Prescott	52
9. Empirical tests	53
10. Long-term implications of the theory	54
Host country eff ects in multinational companies’ performance – empirical evidence from Polish subsidiaries (Beata Stępień) [pdf - 182 kB]	57
1. Host country eff ects in multinational companies’ performance – empirical evidence from Polish subsidiaries	57
2. The impact of host markets’ institutions on the activities of multinational companies – introductory remarks	58
3. Subsidiaries as absorbers and promoters of market institutions	62
4. The extent and causes of standardisation/adaptation of organisational practices of MNCs in Poland – research data	64
5. Concluding remarks	75
Notes for Contributors	78