International business

People need a degree of free choice for creativity and change to happen.

In Central and Eastern Europe, the 'Old Europe' of cobblestones co-exists with mobile phones, horse carts fight for road space with cars, and farmers' markets compete with mega-stores.

There has been growing interest on business models among academics and practitioners in recent years, as business model describes how an organization creates, distributes and captures value and, therefore, can be considered the DNA of the organization.

Creativity dreams up ideas, but innovation carries them through.

Global economic growth, recently fuelled by Asia's emerging economies, has greatly accelerated the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and boosted demand for scarce natural resources, including energy, food and mineral raw materials.

Women Directors analyzes the Italian law on gender quotas in boards as a vital opportunity for the country and a key international case.

Fair Trade In CSR Strategy of Global Retailers shows how retailers can improve the success of their fair trade strategy.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance.

The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce.

Family Firms (FFs) form the majority of all firms around the world and they account for an enormous percentage of the employment, the revenue, and the GDP of most capitalist countries.

This book is one of the first to specifically address the subsidiary development process - a phenomenon by which multinational company subsidiaries enhance their resources and capabilities.

First published in 1999, this volume explores how African agriculture has always had a strong appeal for the people of the Netherlands.

This compelling account offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance.

Through further technological development and increased globalization, conducting busines abroad has become easier, especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).

This book explores the historical and economic development of South Korea, its culture, as well as the benefits, opportunities and challenges that German companies have faced in their cooperation with South Korean enterprises.

There is a growing acknowledgement of the role played by finance theory and experts in the 2008 global banking crash, and their ongoing contributions to risks in the financial system.

The globalization of the world's markets has forced luxury brands to, in turn, become global and accessible in many developing countries and emerging markets.

Countries adopt policies that attract foreign multinationals, stimulate industrial clustering and foster innovation.

Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions.

This book provides a critical insight into China's evolving socio-cultural relations with Islamic countries in the face of growing geopolitical uncertainty.

Despite being the third largest economy in Southeast Asia, Malaysian entrepreneurial activity is under-reported in the scholarly literature.

This book seeks reasons for the failure of the globalisation of trade to reduce poverty.

This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns throughout the region.

Emerging market stock issuance relative to GDP rose in the late twentieth century to levels that roughly matched that of advanced, industrial markets.

The concept of sustainability has grown in recognition and importance.

This volume takes stock of the latest international business research on the relationship between European multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their policy environment.

In the contemporary global market, this book underscores the significance of Islamic institutions and companies to employ effective business and management strategies for sustained success.

Even though the fractal approach to sustainability and organizational change management is not new, no authors so far seem to have truly attempted to use fractals as a mathematical means to map and measure organizational sustainability.

Business Groups and Strategic Coopetition sheds lights on the poorly recognised problem of intra-organisational relationships within business groups by adopting the coopetition lens.

This book explores how far existing networks of overseas Chinese and new flows of migrants act as drivers of economic relations between China and the host countries.

One of the reasons for the success of multinational enterprises in their ability to create in their supranational organisations "e;internal markets"e; which eliminate the imperfections of external world markets caused by tariffs on trade, restrictions on the flow of capital, information costs and so on.

There can be few industries which have generated as much political controversy as the world steel industry.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted matters that arise in the process of financing commercial aircraft.

From the vagaries of the economy, through to varying degrees of social unrest, to the impact of adverse weather, businesses of all forms and sizes across the globe must cope with ongoing change, uncertainty, and risk.

The second annual volume of the International Place Branding Yearbook; this collection looks at the case for applying brand and marketing strategies and to the economic, social, political and cultural development of cities, towns and regions around the world to help them compete in the global, national and local markets.

This book tells the story of China's emergence as a major economic power and the huge impact this will have on world business.

This book defines oil price as a social institution that exists beyond supply-demand mechanisms.

Now in its third edition, this core textbook combines analytical rigour and true managerial insight on the functioning and strategy of large multinational enterprises (MNEs).

This book presents initiatives that were launched or are currently being pursued in the name of CSR, and showcases how different dimensions of CSR, sustainability, ethics and governance can help to solve global challenges.

Air transport in the Asia Pacific has undergone significant transformation in the last three decades.

Forging business alliances can vitalize corporate strategies.

As the way work is done changes and as organizations flatten themselves down in response to demands posed by the new global economy, managers on the front lines, where some say the real work is done, need a broader set of skills than ever before.

THE ANTI-CORRUPTION HANDBOOK Today's demanding marketplace expects CFOs, auditors, compliance officers, and forensic accountants to take responsibility for fraud detection.