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		<title><![CDATA[The Coca-Cola Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from John Faucher, JPMorgan. Your line is open. John Faucher - JPMorgan Yes. Thank you very much. A quick question, as you look across the weakness on the developed markets and I know you sort of talked about this. Can you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:24:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PolyOne Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions.   Your first question comes from the line of Mike Judd of Greenwich Consultants.  Please proceed. Michael Judd &#8211; Greenwich Consultants Yes, good morning.  Stephen Newlin  Hi, Mike.  Michael Judd &#8211; Greenwich Consultants  A couple of balance sheet...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:40:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WABCO Holdings Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Conference Call]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator   Operator Instructions. Our first question today will come from Steve Tusa with JP Morgan. Steve Tusa - JP Morgan  Hi, good morning.  Jacques Esculier Good morning, Steve.  Ulrich Michel  Good morning, Steve.   Steve Tusa - JP Morgan Or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:54:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Downgrades Reaffirm the Case to Exit Eastern Europe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rakesh Saxena submits: Finally, the rating agencies are seeing the light. Perhaps belatedly, Fitch has downgraded its ratings for Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. The fact is that none of the economies of Eastern Europe ([[GUR]], IEER.LSE) have succeeded in completing the socialism-to-free market transition. On the contrary, virtually all former...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:26:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Celera Group F2Q08 (Qtr End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Our first question comes from the line of Tycho Peterson with JP Morgan.  Please proceed. Tycho Peterson - JP Morgan Hi, good morning, and thanks for taking the call.  Wanted to dive a little bit more into some of the comments made about the international...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:08:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Business And Institutional Development In Central And Eastern Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312801]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the early 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe has attracted international business research into the interaction between radical societal change and business development in these emerging market economies. This paper has effectively utilized institutional theories, and thus revealed limitations of similar applications in other contexts, while setting the stage for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Full Transcript of Wipro&#8217;s F2Q05 (Qtr Ending Sept 30, 2005) Conference Call &#8212; Q&A (WIT)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Earnings Call ExcerptHere&#8217;s the entire text of the Q&A from Wipro&#8217;s (ticker: WIT) fiscal Q2 2005 conference call. The prepared remarks are here.     Sridhar Ramasubbu      Christina, we can go ahead with questions.      Moderator  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:06:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Business And Government Relations In Central And Eastern Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312800]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The transition period has been a period of extraordinary politics. This paper discusses how institutional change has created bureaucratic barriers to entry, but also windows of opportunity for Foreign Direct Investment FDI. The high costs and high investment risks associated with FDI in Central and Eastern Europe CEE are a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Foreign Investment And Growth: Central And Eastern Europe In Transition]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An empirical neoclassical growth model of the transition in Central and Eastern Europe reveals that foreign investment has incrementally contributed to economic growth. The model departs from the theoretical and applied growth literature with a partial adjustment model of foreign investment, estimating its phase equation with pooled data. Estimation reveals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A New International Division Of Labor In Europe: Outsourcing And Offshoring To Eastern Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313991]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Europe is reorganizing its international value chain. The author document these changes in Europe's international organization of production with new survey data of Austrian and German firms investing in Eastern Europe. He shows estimates of the share of intrafirm trade between Austria or Germany on the one hand and Eastern...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Geographic Factors As Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investment In Eastern Europe's Transitioning Economies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312679]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The removal of the "Iron Curtain" epitomized the shed of Eastern Europe's central planning and the region's adoption of the Western market system. To establish a comparative advantage in nowadays markets, the transitioning nations need financial assistance through Foreign Direct Investment FDI. While most research focuses on economic and political...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurs: The Rebirth of Civil Society in Eastern Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=269178]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a quiet revolution in Eastern Europe for the past fifteen years - the explosive growth of the nonprofit sector. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Eastern European governments have done their fair share of shuffling as they attempt to adapt themselves to Western styles...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for the Agrifood Sector and Rural Development]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=103485]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper highlights how the rise of supermarkets had a profound effect on agrifood systems via several important changes in the organization and institutions of the food system, including centralization of procurement from farmers, decline of traditional wholesale systems, and the rise of demanding private standards for product quality and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Due Diligence in Central and Eastern Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=165606]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the political changes there has been steady increase in Foreign Direct Investment into the Central and Eastern Europe. As a standard practice of property transactions within the European Union EU and USA, the investment capital companies require environmental due diligence to establish potential environmental risks associated with the transaction....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Early Birds, Late Risers, and Sleeping Beauties: Bank Credit Growth to the Private Sector in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Balkans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=157279]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a period of privatization and restructuring, commercial banks in Central and Eastern Europe and, in the Balkans have rapidly expanded their lending to the private sector. This paper describes the causes of this expansion, assesses future trends, and evaluates its policy implications. It concludes that bank credit to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Electronic Procurement in Today's High-Tech Firms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134244]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploratory qualitative interviews conducted with purchasing decision makers across various high-tech industries in Eastern Europe are compared to those in Central Europe and the United States. Findings suggest that Information Technology is perceived as less valuable by European firms and is utilized to a lesser degree. Multinational companies operating in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healing Eastern Europe's Hospitals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=153707]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Health care spending has been a major casualty of Eastern Europe's transition to the market economy. To meet a dire need for cash, public hospitals there have two options: to charge patients for some services and to bid for a growing share of the global market for clinical trials sponsored...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Empowerment in the Context of Transformational Change: A Study of Acquisitions and Privatizations in Eastern Europe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines conditions under which empowerment (decision autonomy, dialogic leadership) is connected with positive and negative effects, respectively, in regard to managing transformational change in Eastern Europe. Acquisitions by foreign investors in Poland and Russia (N = 45 companies) and privatizations through employee buy-out in Romania (N = 5...]]></description>
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