Business Research

1. Structural change in EU: 1.1. changing production specialisation patterns, convergence and divergence in EU industrial patterns 1.2. the growth of services sector, knowledge-based economy 1.3. labour intensive manufacturing and product cycle. 2. Global capital markets 2.1. international capital flows 2.2. internationalisation of production, theories of multinational enterprise and foreign direct investment, vertically and horizontally integrated firms 2.3. financial integration in EU 3. Technological globalisation 3.1. location of R&D and technological specialisation of economies 3.2. FDI, transfer and diffusion of technology, spill over effects 3.3. Competition between EU, US and Japan in technology-intensive industries 4. Global labour markets 4.1. international labour mobility, international migration flows 4.2. theories of international migration 4.3. labour market in EU