International business

The accelerated transformation of businesses poses major challenges to organizations.

The Social Effects of FDI on Multinational Companies and Domestic Firms compares and contrasts wages, working conditions and industrial relations processes in multinational and domestic companies.

In the wake of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable development has become key to the management systems within businesses, and a means by which companies can increase their long-term value.

The Principles of Islamic Marketing fills a gap in international business literature covering the aspects and values of Islamic business thought.

This handbook is focused on the analytical dimension in researching ?

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

It examines the context in which multi-national companies operate and how the key players interact with each other and with the external business environment.

Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society.

This book provides a flight plan for riding the impending connectivity transformation curve.

During a period characterised by both prolonged recession and the increasing complexity of enterprises, informing and consulting with workers becomes all the more important.

As we become more and more of a global trading world, the challenges of leading and managing within this turbulent environment and its associated, complex, interconnected markets and disconnected relationships are indisputable, so just how far can any change requirements be practically engaged with, whilst also keeping the employee at the organisation's central core?

Explores the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global governance approaches to business and human rights, with an emphasis on the UN Guiding Principles.

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

This book considers the interrelation among macroeconomic politics, macroeconomic policymakers, macroeconomic policies, and macroeconomic perform ance.

Human Resource Management (HRM) is fundamentally shaped by institutional and cultural factors, such as the different political environments and social philosophies of particular countries and regions.

Globalisation makes our world appear smaller: it is easier to connect, communicate and do business with people all over the world.

International trade and investment have flourished globally but nowhere so spectacularly as in the Asia-Pacific region.

The main source of competitive advantage for an organisation rests in its people.

As challenges to the era of globalisation emerge, international business grows in importance and complexity as a field of study.

The Million Dollar Handshake is about more than making money - it is also about helping you feel a million dollars.

Asia is a continent of contradictions and boundaries; it offers exciting business opportunities, but is also characterized by unpredictability and conflict.

As the twentieth century draws to a close and the rush to globalization gathers momentum, political and economic considerations are crowding out vital ethical questions about the shape of our future.

In the past decade construction and engineering have changed dramatically, with an explosion of innovative new approaches to construction and new methodologies.

This edited collection examines the changing contours of Korean management and business, presenting recent scholarly research into this important Asian economic player.

Twelve lively accounts are given, based on searching interviews, of very different kinds of managerial jobs.

Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences and believes that it is impossible to treat usefully of the rise, decline and metamorphosis of industries and economics without some consideration of the part played by the efforts of individual men and women in these processes.

This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business - from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day.

Major theoretical approaches stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should best be measured.

Contemporary sport business is international.

The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems - France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Sweden.

There are no miracles in Latin America, says international consultant Louis Nevaer-only opportunities-and with economic integration well underway, these opportunities are more promising than ever for U.

Its time to rethink the way we think about China.

This book explores the motivations of R&D foreign direct investment (FDI) in a developed country, placing a particular emphasis on the United Kingdom.

This second edition textbook shows how macroeconomic models for industrial countries may be applied to emerging and developing economies.

This edited collection explores how digitalization is changing the management of innovation, and the subsequent implications for the next phases in its development.

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

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten.

The discussion in this book provides an introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial business management.

This book aims to start a debate on the relationship between economic theory - and more precisely business cycle theory - and economic policy, emphasising the diversity of views on economic policy which characterised older periods, in contrast to the homogeneity of the analysis and diagnosis provided by current business cycles developments.

This book provides up-to-date information on globalisation trends and the transformations taking place in emerging markets.

Winner of the 2020 R.

Accessibly explains all trade policy terms and concepts likely to be met in trade policy analysis and trade negotiations.

Leadership has never been more important to the cultural industries.

Drucker on Asia is written in two parts (Times of Challenge & Time to Reinvent) which is the result of a dialogue between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi on international themes.

This book critically assesses the impact of Ethiopia's policy of Agriculture Development Led Industrialization.

Handbook of Singapore - Malaysian Corporate Finance discusses topics that are relevant to the acquisition of funds by Singaporean and Malaysian corporations.