International business

This international Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of key topics, debates and issues within the now well-established field of Knowledge Management (KM).

Ever since Simon Anholt coined the phrase 'Nation Branding, there has been more and more interest in the idea that countries, cities and regions can build their brand images.

The first full-length work to analyze the closing phase of negotiations, identifying the negotiators'' behavior patterns in the endgame.

This edited volume explores the influence of role modelling as a process in the workplace; in particular, whether it can aid career development, offer psycho-social support, and provide the motivation and means to achieve goals.

Management education and training was a key influence on Canadian capital and labour in the post-World War II decades, however it has been the subject of comparatively little academic inquiry.

In many countries, business practitioners, policy makers, pundits and laypeople want to know how strong China really is in business.

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

A collection of eight articles by 17 specialists, this volume provides very recent research on the factors which contribute to the build up of entrepreneurship.

OR, Defence and Security presents eleven papers, originally published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the Journal of Simulation, which exemplify important themes and topics in Operational Research (OR), as applied to modern-day defense and security issues.

This book looks at various aspects of tourism education in Asian countries and the impacts of sustainable development in tourism education to the Asian student markets.

Globalisation influences every aspect of post-modern social reality.

This book examines the global corporate strategy of Japanese multi-national enterprises (MNEs) and analyses their position in today's business environment.

This volume examines the discursive construction of the meanings and lifestyle practices of the middle class in the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the social, political and cultural implications at local and global levels.

A fresh analysis of the secrets of Asian economic success and how other countries can escape the ''middle-income'' trap.

The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions.

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce.

Today's organizations are embedded in global and local network relationships that demand more.

This book critically analyses the prospects of overhauling the legal framework of climate change regulation of corporations in African state.

This book explores how the concept of "e;competition"e;, which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to emphasise "e;co-operation"e;, rather than competitive mechanisms.

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises contributes to the body of knowledge concerning talent management in small and medium enterprises.

In a world characterized by increasing globalization and demographic shifts, immigrant entrepreneurship has emerged as a vital driver of economic growth, innovation, and social cohesion.

Workplace Bullying and Harassment: New Developments in International Law provides a comprehensive tour around the globe, summarizing relevant legislation and key developments in workplace bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, violence, and stress in over 50 countries in Europe, the Asia Pacific region, the Americas region, and the Middle East and Africa.

Export embargoes are imposed in the belief that enough economic damage will be inflicted on the target country to make it change course on some key political point.

Global firms must operate in turbulent conditions, facing relentless pressure to be efficient, whilst also accommodating local factors and ways of thinking.

A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world's second largest economy, have started to crumble.

This book is a basic text for international marketing courses.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992).

The concept of guanxi is used extensively in Chinese society.

This contributed volume provides theoretical and empirical insights into a variety of contemporary issues about inequality, geography, and global value chains in today's world, where global disruptions are prevalent, globalization is being transformed, and multinational enterprises (MNEs) are under pressure to promote sustainability.

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention.

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This edited volume explores the influence of role modelling as a process in the workplace; in particular, whether it can aid career development, offer psycho-social support, and provide the motivation and means to achieve goals.

The late twentieth century has witnessed the establishment of new forms of capitalism in East Asia as well as new market economies in Eastern Europe.

This book overcomes the limitations of existing models of national culture by presenting a novel archetypal methodology that captures heterogeneity within and between nations in a simple manner.

International Management and Intercultural Communication consists of cases of direct observation and personal involvement in a wide variety of communication challenges in international management settings; and discusses them in terms of management theories.

This wide-ranging review of human resources management (HRM) in Asia draws attention to issues which are substantially different from those which a Western-trained manager or student would expect.

This engaging and accessible book is a must-read for every economics student.

Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation appears at a time of unprecedented environmental disasters, natural resources depletion, and significant failure of governments and global businesses to attend to worldwide social problems.

Social Innovation is emerging as an alternate interdisciplinary development pathway of knowledge and practice that aims to understand and address contemporary complexities and multi - dimensional social realities.

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy?

The right to do business in Russia is granted by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which states that everyone shall have the right to freely use his or her abilities and property for entrepreneurial or any other economic activity not prohibited by the law.

This edited book introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of those intermediate countries with specific reference to two relevant international areas; those countries of southern Europe whose dynamic is very much influenced by the phases of European construction, and in countries of Latin America where the opening up process has changed the traditional role played by multinational corporations.

European Business 2nd edition explores the interaction between European business and their environment using up-to-date case studies.

The book focuses on the different aspects of business in India required to be taken care of by any businessperson, especially a foreigner, willing to do business in India.

This new paperback edition of Foreign Direct Investment and Governments examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment, governments and economic development.

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.