International business

This book endeavors to take the conceptualization of the relationship between business, government and development in African countries to a new level.

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of one of the defining characteristics of post-secular societies: religious diversity.

Examines how the private sector in China manages to grow without secure property rights.

For African enterprises, entrepreneurs and governments to take full advantage of new digital opportunities, they need a shared strategic understanding of where they are, what they have, and what they may need to have for the future.

Multinational Corporations in Political Environments advances and tests a theory of why foreign corporations leave host states.

Energy risk has reappeared on the corporate and social agenda with a bang and the complexity of the issues has increased many-fold since the days of the last great wave of concern following the oil crises of the 1970s.

This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital technology changes the African society.

Since the mid 1990s political and public debates about the social responsibilities of firms have gained renewed force.

Achieving success in the global marketplace is now a little easier thanks to this practical and comprehensive guide.

This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.

The growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world masks a high rate of failure.

Its time to rethink the way we think about China.

This book identifies the driving forces behind globalization and proposes innovative ways for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) to confront them.

In recent years economic activity has become increasingly globalized.

In this book, the authors investigate the rise in outward direct investment (ODI) from four emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).

The fear that China's competitive stress will trigger another Asian crisis is flawed.

Innovation is a source of building long-term sustainability.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about yet little understood policy initiatives of the People's Republic of China.

This text provides a structured and practical framework for understanding the complexities of contemporary public relations.

Set against the backdrop of a rising population in Africa and the lowering opportunities for white collar jobs, as well as the continent's limited access to resources, this edited collection demystifies the interconnectedness between the factors and actors involved with innovation and entrepreneurship development in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) informal economy for more effective, result-oriented outcomes.

Why do different groups of people behave in different ways when dealing with the common challenges of human life?

This volume in the Academy of International Business Latin America Chapter (AIB-LAT) series presents research findings and theoretical developments in international business, with special emphasis on innovation, geography and internationalization in Latin America.

The first volume to explore mergers and acquisitions in the 21st century.

An historical context of the development of global outsourcing with case study analysis in four countries where the industry is large or growing.

When it was founded back in 1944 no one could possibly have foreseen how the World Bank - known more formally as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - would flourish.

The cultural diversity within many major projects require those managing them to adapt their project management approach to be in harmony with the preferences and behaviours of stakeholders from these cultures; failure to do so can lead to misunderstandings about the project's purpose and structure; significant difficulties in implementation and in some cases, to conflict or litigation.

In the twenty-first century, the global community constantly strives to bring structure and order to the world through strategic means.

This publication titled ';Encyclopaedia of Global Depression, Financial Crisis and Economic Recession' provides readers with an introduction to global depression, its causes and effects.

In this broad-based, imaginative and challenging volume by front-runners in the domain of immigrant and refugee entrepreneurship, Ivan Light, Leo-Paul Dana and Didier Chabaud contribute a near boundless magnitude to our understanding of this realm of scholarship, agency, endurance, and survivorship.

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

This book provides a comprehensive review of both the theoretical development and empirical study of the concept of cultural intelligence.

This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital technology changes the African society.

This book analyzes the emerging concepts and theories of inclusiveness in business by explaining corporate social responsibility, social learning, and value co-creation, as critical elements to the success of firms.

With the rapid development and drastic change of the world economy, "e;Digital Finance"e;, "e;Internet Finance"e;, "e;Science and Technology Finance"e; have become new hotspots, which also represent the future trend of economy development in the era of big data.

With traditional growth engines failing, the world is looking to Asia for economic salvation.

Industrial and business economics is a very important field with a great deal of relevance to the commercial world and to business studies students as well as to economists.

Sustainable Industrialization in Africa explores the issues that confront development policy in the context of the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda from an African perspective.

From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the international HR field was considered to be in its infancy.

The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences.

Higher Education Consumer Choice provides a comprehensive and highly focused critical analysis of research on HE consumer choice behaviour in the UK and around the world.

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution.

Thanks to its ability to innovate, the developed world will always have a distinct advantage over the developing world, right?

"e;THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL BOOKS EVER WRITTEN ABOUT LEADERSHIP.

Responsible Management in Theory and Practice in Muslim Societies delineates principles of responsible management from an Islamic perspective, exploring the concept of responsibility in Islamic religious texts, and how the understanding of responsibility evolved in Islamic jurisprudence.

This book provides insights into China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

This accessible account of the post-communist transformation of Hungarian companies raises several important questions.

This timely book offers up-to-date information for both researchers and decision makers regarding five core areas of Middle Eastern institutional and cultural context and its role in shaping business's strategies and practices in the region.