International business

This book explores the socio-economic, political and diplomatic implications of China's ongoing engagement with the Latin America region against the backdrop of an increasingly fragile global political climate.

In this era of constant change and globalization, political and international issues influence the business environment worldwide and penetrate our lifestyle and expectations in ways beyond most imaginations.

This text challenges students to think critically about global issues that affect the business environment and provides them with a wealth of pedagogical features that help cement learning.

This second edition of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title improves coverage of the global environments in which entrepreneurs operate.

What role have the financial elites in European societies and markets played over time?

International Cooperation in the Aerospace Industry offers a unique study and analysis of how nations and industries have cooperated internationally to design and manufacture civil and military aircraft from a variety of perspectives: historical, economic, organizational, operational, and political.

Societies today are in a period of dynamic change, highly fluid and contested in moving from traditional to liberal and from local to global, as well as varying from highly developed to emerging market economies.

This book offers up to date insights into the exciting world of China's extensive economic activity through the pervasive and often secretive practice of transfer pricing.

Much has been written on China's State-Owned Enterprises ( SOEs) reform following the restructuring impact on China's economic reform process in the last decade.

The use of comparisons to explain, analyze and understand social and economic phenomena is recognized as a valuable social science tool.

The flow of goods, capital technology and organisational know-how between Japan and China has increased dramatically, yet the relationship between the two countries remains far below its potential scope.

Airline business models continue to be shaped by powerful forces relating to customers, complexities and regulators.

Der Einsatz von multikulturellen virtuellen Teams ist integraler Bestandteil vieler Unternehmen und nimmt durch die Digitalisierung rapide zu.

This Handbook presents a theory of Business Interest Associations and fifteen empirical country by country case studies in the EU.

The book contains a wealth of detailed and fascinating case studies of New Public Management (NPM) in practice in the UK, exploring the enactment of NPM in its specific organizational contexts.

All four authors of Building Bridges Among the BRICs take a close look at the national culture of their nations with their strengths and weaknesses for politics and business.

2012 will bring another global economic crisis.

This volume looks at interaction between business firms and socio-political actors in emerging markets - and how this relationship can be managed - and deals with the interconnection between the socio-political organizations in emerging markets and MNCs.

This book attempts to address the lack of connectedness between topics that have traditionally been dealt with as discrete and self-contained.

Various phenomena in the global economy, such as intensifying firm internationalization and international sourcing resulting in a growing number of hybrid products, raise the question of whether the country-of-origin (COO) and the country-of-origin effect (COE) still matter in contemporary international business.

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the special category of countries popularly referred to as 'transition economies' through an analysis of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their role in Asian economies, with a view to assessing whether they could or should provide a model for African countries.

This edited volume strives to support leaders in successfully leading their teams, projects and organizations across borders in an increasingly boundaryless world.

The International Trade Manual is the definitive book about export, import and freightforwarding for business people and students of further and higher education.

The era of globalisation brought waves of consolidation in business ownership alongside Leviathon-like state actors.

Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos.

In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization and Europeanization, but they have not converged.

In recent years, luxury goods markets have faced significant changes that have influenced both the dynamics of the competition, as well as their strategies.

Veiled Power conducts a thorough historical study of the relationship between international law and business corporations.

Marketing as a discipline is in a perpetual state of evolution, continuously adapting to diverse and dynamic environments.

When China's economic reforms were beginning, there was an expectation in the west that China's financial markets would be opened to western banks and that China's banks would be reformed along western lines.

Contributors to the book suggest an alternative discourse and value system to that of the market-led corporate global agenda, one that does not directly challenge corporate globalization but recognizes a parallel reality.

Drawing on contributions from leading academics in the field, this volume within the Routledge Series in Human Resource Development specifically focuses on Global Human Resource Development (HRD).

China is poised to gain global importance as a growth engine for the world economy on a par with Europe and the USA.

This book makes a timely and highly stimulating contribution to the discourse on emerging-market multinationals, (EMNCs), as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe from emerging countries (especially from the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India, China) continues to grow in significance.

Chinese business firms and their networks of personal and business relationships, are becoming increasingly important players in the global economy.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM).

This book highlights the major institutional changes in the development of the Japanese retail industry after the bubble economy.

From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies.

Learn to apply the strategies used in East Asia's phenomenal economic expansion The phenomenal economic growth of many countries in East Asia has no historic parallel.

This title was originally published in 1969.

Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers.

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England.

Throughout the Twentieth Century, big business has been a basic institution.

The aim of this book, first published in 1939, is to provide a comprehensive description of the protectionist system that had been in force in Britain since 1931.

This book offers an integrated discussion on international entry mode decisions in the context of family firms.

Firm-to-firm relationships, along with the overall structure of industry, have changed markedly over the past decades.