What occurs when a minor, localized maritime dispute between two fishing vessels is weaponized to completely sever the global supply of the materials required to build modern civilization?
This book proposes a new framework for explaining and anticipating foreign economic policy changes, at the same time providing a fascinating account of three American policy shifts that transformed the postwar international monetary system.
Drawing on their extensive fieldwork in Zambia, the authors address these central concerns: the social origins and motivations of African entrepreneurs, and the determinants of their success; the impact of government policies on business growth; the relative performance of Zambians in business; and the effects of small business on Zambian society.
Om Prakash reveals the central role played by Bengal in the Dutch East India Company's activities in India in the seventeenth and the early eighteenth century and the resulting integration of India into the world economy.
Marshaling a great deal of new information in a highly readable manner, the author explains the reasons for the dramatic expansion of arms sales during the past decade and clearly traces such trends as the rise in sophistication of weapons being sold so as to include the most advanced technologies, and the shift in sales to unstable parts of the Third World.
This book is a political history of the Tokyo Round (1973--1979), the largest and most significant multilateral trade negotiation since the founding of the GATT in 1947.
Business Negotiations & Networking: Building Professional Relationships Across Cultures is a comprehensive guide designed to help professionals succeed in the interconnected world of global business.
This book is a historical account of the slave trading system of the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century and of the attempts, which were eventually successful, to suppress it.
Taking a hard look at the crisis afflicting Western economies in recent years, Manuel Castells suggests that the very structures that fostered economic growth since 1945 are the same structures that are now undermining these economics.
Rules for the Global Economy is a timely examination of the conditions under which international rules of globalization come into existence, enabling world economic and financial systems to function and stabilize.
A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, and what Michelle Obama referred to as 'the flimsy difference between success and failure'.
Dieses Buch untersucht die verborgenen Mechanismen in Graumärkten und illegalen Wirtschaftssystemen – nicht, um sie zu glorifizieren, sondern um ihre ökonomischen Dynamiken zu verstehen.
Die Möglichkeit, mobil zu arbeiten, hat sich als ein wesentlicher Faktor erwiesen, um hochqualifizierte Fachkräfte anzuziehen und zu halten; sie ist damit ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsvorteil für die Zukunft von Kanzleien.
ras el gran exito editorial de Espiritualidad en los Negocios, el reconocido empresario y conferencista, Jaime Meschoulam presenta su nuevo libro: Felicidad en los Negocios.
Esta obra, concebida como una compilación, aporta una mirada amplia y profunda al liderazgo en contextos laborales caracterizados por la volatilidad, la incertidumbre y la complejidad.
Este libro es una guía práctica con conceptos, técnicas y modelos que abarcan todos los aspectos a tener en cuenta para desarrollar plataformas y estrategias de comercio electrónico.
Esta obra, concebida como una compilación, aporta una mirada amplia y profunda al liderazgo en contextos laborales caracterizados por la volatilidad, la incertidumbre y la complejidad.
