European Business Review: Volume 96 Issue 6

In from the cold: perspectives on Finnish entry to the European Union

Peter Chadwick

Analyses the context of the recent changes in Finland’s economic performance and its trading relationship with the former USSR. Examines the Finnish business system, with its…

Trends and patterns of European foreign direct investment in Turkey

Ekrem Tatoglu, Keith W. Glaister

Expects that the entry of Turkey into the customs union with Europe in January 1996 will spur the flow of European foreign direct investment (FDI) to Turkey with European…

UK joint venture activity in the Czech Republic: motives and uses

Eleanor M.M. Davies, Brian Kenny, Robert R. Trick

Presents the initial findings of an ongoing study into the motives and uses of the joint venture by British investors in the Czech Republic. Observes that, despite the many…

Acquisition experience of UK firms in the former East Germany

Colin M. Clarke‐Hill, Terry Robinson

Reports the results of fieldwork conducted in September 1994 on a sample of UK companies which had acquired businesses from the German privatization agency, the Treuhand, and a…

Supporting the development of successful worker co‐operatives in the UK

Richard Knight

Observes that there has been a renewal of interest in the co‐operative form of business in the UK as a method of working in times of rapid economic change. Notes that co‐operative…