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Lebanon has a liberal economy with free transfer of capital and goods. It is a small and service-based economy—services account for approximately 71 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), which was estimated at $24.6 billion in 2007. The main economic sectors are financial services, tourism, commerce, manufacturing, …
Legal & General Group is one of the United Kingdom’s leading financial services companies. According to the Fortune Global 500 ranking for 2007, Legal & General Group is the ninth-highest ranked insurance company, although ranked only 162 overall. The company’s ordinary shares (stock) appear in the Financial Times …
Firms, as societal entities, operate in particular economic, political, and legal environments. The legal environment is a result of legislative intervention by the government (state) and the positive practices that are recognized and sanctioned by the positive law. Historically, the legal environment has usually been nationally defined, although …
Lenovo, originally known as Legend Group, is one of the largest personal computer (PC) manufacturers in the world. It employs more than 25,000 people and has more than 66 overseas branches, operating in more than 166 countries across six continents. Lenovo is the best-known brand in China and …
Wassily W. Leontief (1905–99) was the first scholar to empirically test the predictions of the HeckscherOhlin (H-O) theorem, one of four main results of the H-O model (credited to Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin). This theorem establishes a relationship between a country’s abundance of factors of production, the …
Less industrialized countries are those that are also sometimes called developing countries, and can include emerging economies and failed states. These terms have essentially replaced the older Third World or Global South labels, but there is no strict agreement on the right way to distinguish between the advanced …
A letter of credit (LC) or documentary credit is a means of payment in a trade transaction that commits the issuer, usually a commercial bank, on behalf of its customer, a buyer, to pay a seller contingent on documentary evidence that the seller has met the terms and …
LG is a leading family-owned business conglomerate, called a chaebol, in South Korea. It was the first chaebol to adopt a holding company structure in 2001. The member companies carry out varied businesses including electronics, chemicals, and telecommunications. LG Electronics is the central company, placing special emphasis on …
LIBOR, or London Interbank Offered Rate, is the interest rate at which banks in London will lend large denomination Eurocurrency deposits to other banks for specific maturities. LIBOR is the ask price in a bid/ask spread interest rate quotation. The bid price is LIBID, or London Interbank Bid …
After two decades of isolation, Libya has reemerged as an extremely fertile investment opportunity for several reasons. First, Libya has historically been Europe’s gateway to Africa and an ideal steppingstone to enter emerging markets on the African continent. Second, after years of isolation, Libya is making investments in …
Licensing is generally considered a contractual arrangement or transaction in which one organization, called the licensor, permits the use of its intellectual property by another organization, called the licensee, in return for a fee or royalty payment. To grant a license is to permit the use of intellectual …
Lifestyle research stands at the boundary between a number of traditional academic disciplines, developing expertise from sociology and the social sciences in areas as distinct as business, retailing, marketing, understanding of consumers, and health and social care. The very diversity of fields and disciplines with an interest in …
The Linder hypothesis states that countries with similar per capita incomes tend to trade more intensively with each other. The claim originated in 1961 with Swedish economist Staffan Linder, who observed that countries with similar incomes also tend to have similar preferences. Domestic manufacturers that primarily produce for …
Liquidity (or market liquidity) is the ease with which financial market participants can quickly execute large trades without significantly impacting prices. An investor buys a financial instrument in a liquid market with confidence that there will be a ready prospect for its sale in the future. In the …
The southernmost of the Baltic States, in medieval times Lithuania was a powerful kingdom in eastern Europe, and as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation, was one of the largest and most powerful entities during the 16th century. It became a part of the Russian Empire in the 18th …
The Lloyds TSB Group came from a merger of Lloyds Bank and the Trustee Savings Bank. Lloyds Bank itself was one of the oldest banks in the United Kingdom and was established as a company in 1765—at that stage providing a private banking service—called Taylors and Lloyds in …
Lobbying refers to attempts to influence policy decisions made by elected officials. The term originated in the political systems of the United States and United Kingdom during the 19th century when efforts to influence the votes of lawmakers were conducted in the entrance hall (or “lobby”) of parliamentary …
All firms that operate in a single, domestic context have to design and implement product, pricing, promotional, and distribution strategies to compete effectively in their respective markets. On the other hand, firms that operate on an international scale face an additional challenge that must be tackled before they …
The standard economic textbook treatment of competition gives the impression that production and consumption take place on the head of a pin, as if space did not matter. In reality, of course, space does matter, in ways that constrain the boundaries of competitive domains and the intensity of …
Localization is an international strategy that some companies pursue in their international business operations. Companies pursuing localization try to modify their products and services so that products have local features demanded by local consumers and are suitable to laws and standards. The modifications needed to localize products can …
