Faces of Competitiveness in Asia Pacific
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Introduction
Part 1. Determinants of the competitiveness of regional groupingsin the Asia
and Pacific region
Ewa Oziewicz: Remarks on international competitiveness of ASEAN economies
Yoshiaki Sato: The drift of East Asian Community. Why promoting freedom of movement now
Sebastian Bobowski: Baldwin’s „domino theory” of regionalism – its sources and
implications for East Asian states
Andrzej Cieślik, Tao Song: Preferential trade liberalization in Southeast Asia. The case
of ASEAN countries
Bartosz Michalski: Linking free trade with fair competition. Case study of ASEAN’s
experiences
Marcin Grabowski: Will Trans-Pacific Strategic Partnership Agreement increase the
competitiveness of the Asia-Pacific region
Marcin Nowik: The competition in the field of development co-operation – between the
Beijing and the Washington Consensus
Monika Paradowska: Transport as an area of co-operation between integrating countries in
Europe and Asia
Zbigniew Piepiora: The regional co-operation in the field of counteracting the results of
natural disasters as the factor of increasing the competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific
region
Marian Żuber: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones in the Asia and Pacific region in the context of
global security
Part 2. International competitive potential of the economic actorsof the Asia
and Pacific region
Guenter Heiduk, Agnieszka McCaleb: Competitiveness of Chinese MNEs. Innovation versus
imitation, branding versus price, acquiring versus developing ?
Piotr Adam Wiśniewski: Competitiveness of Chinese suppliers of telecommunication
technology on international markets
Sylwia Przytuła: Human capital as a source of competitive advantage of East Asian
corporations (Chinese and Japanese )
Anna Żelezna: Transnational corporations and their influence on the competitiveness of
Asian newly industrialized economies
Sebastian Bobowski, Anna H. Jankowiak, Szymon Mazurek: Business networks and the
competitiveness of transnational corporations in East Asia
Anna H. Jankowiak: Cluster models in Japan on the example of Toyota cluster
Karolina Łopacińska: Keiretsu as a form of partnership in the Japanese business system
Agnieszka Piasecka-Głuszak: The main problems in the implementation of Japanese
kaizen/lean tools in companies on the Polish market in accor-dance with the Kaizen
Management System – the analysis of research
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