The danger down the road, Khrushcheva said, is Putin taking broader retaliation — pulling out of international agreements, complicating foreign businesses' operations, or expelling more diplomats and even foreign journalists.
Foreign businesses with operations in Greece have been demanding payment up front from local customers, lest they later have to accept devalued drachmas.
"I would like to stress that China always welcomes and supports foreign investors' legal business operations in China," she said.
It also demonstrates the long arm of the Justice Department, extracting a guilty plea from a foreign company with no business operations in the United States.
But recent strikes for higher wages by mine workers and supermarket clerks, not to mention pilots of the state-owned airline, Garuda, have disrupted business operations — and could potentially deter foreign investments.
When domestic and foreign companies cannot use the internet for basic business operations, it presents a real economic hurdle," Smith added.
We know why firms cut corners to beat out a competitor to secure a multimillion-dollar contract, or to ensure that business operations run smoothly in a foreign country.
Creative work has followed other daily business operations and is now frequently "shipped" to foreign destinations where highly skilled designers produce beautiful work for a fraction of prices paid to fancy design houses found around town.
Although it had no employees or business operations during that time, the brand name continued to be used to license and market various foreign-made electronics.
