International business

This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time that the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization.

This book evaluates the conditions for the international transfer of Japanese-style management and production techniques to Europe.

This book reviews the deep historical roots of Asian business ethics and firmly places these into the modern context.

This text considers different economic models available in the global market.

This book examines government/regulatory responses to the Asian Financial Crisis which brought unprecedented financial turmoil for most East Asian countries.

Key practitioners who work in and with EU business associations come together with leading policy makers from the EU institutions and research academics to analyze change factors for the associations and their role in EU policy making and implementation.

Terms such as the 'new competitive landscape', 'hypercompetition' and 'inherent instability and change' have been used over the past decade to describe the changing global competitive environment.

Today's multinational enterprises are headed for trouble unless their top-level executives manage to pay the appropriate amount of 'attention' to what is happening in the farther corners of the business world.

We live in a globally interconnected but economically divided world where internationally linked businesses can play a significant role in helping and/or obstructing the development of impoverished countries.

Bestselling author Michael Backman here draws upon a wealth of new examples, case studies and anecdotes to provide crucial insights into Asian business themes.

Japan and Germany have faced very similar challenges, namely ageing populations, changing employment structures, and globalization.

Covering the period from the 1920s, when international tax policy was solely about avoiding double taxation, to the present era of international tax competition, Rixen investigates the fate of 'the power to tax' in an era of globalization, illustrating that tax sovereignty is both shaped and constrained by an international tax regime.

Today's modern nations are using increasingly high-tech information systems to power a 'technology revolution'.

This book gives a comprehensive analysis of the different real estate markets in Europe, with a thorough description of the various sectors.

This book considers the importance of organizing knowledge processes to overcome geographical, time zone and cultural challenges found in global work.

An essential guide to the current state of Market Entry in Japan that illustrates the challenges, opportunities and routes to successfully doing business in Japan.

At the end of the Cold War, the global economic system encountered a new phenomenon in the field of knowledge creation and technological innovation - the birth of mad technologies.

The automobile sector is one of the most archetypal global industries and is seen by many as one of the main drivers behind the homogenisation of world markets due to firms' internationalization strategies and the social practices that firms impose.

Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest and least integrated region of the world, now has fifteen stock markets.

This book highlights the phenomenon of business cooperation from different theoretical approaches, and studies the most important aspects of the organisational design of cooperation.

Latin America: It's Future in the Global Economy is a timely contribution to the effort to meet the complex challenges entailed in Latin America's increasing participation in world markets.

This book, based upon a large-scale research project, examines alternative types of exchange rate policies being pursued and the changing nature of exchange rate policy during the transition process in four countries, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic.

There is growing awareness of the relationship between health and development.

An examination of the form and character of recent transformations in the international automobile industry.

This book debunks the notion that the Chief Executive is the primary figurehead and places line managers at the forefront.

This volume examines foreign investment in developing countries both from a theoretical perspective and country specific perspective.

This book reports on foreign investments in transitional economies and the corporate governance of international strategic alliances in China.

This volume, based on a series analysis using up-to-date econometric technique, systematically investigates the role that exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have played in China's development process, and questions the received wisdom that exports and FDI are always an unalloyed blessing.

Globalisation.

This book highlights the evolution of the thinking on the multinational subsidiary over a quarter of a century, from the early concerns about the 'branch plant syndrome' to very current topics relating to the Multinational Enterprise as a differentiated corporate network and its role in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Japanese retailing has long been regarded as traditional or even backwards, when in reality it has constantly demonstrated its innovativeness and dynamism.

Based on data from Japan, the book examines the combined effect of product, geographic, and network diversity on multinational enterprise performance.

This book provides cutting edge research and knowledge and an academic study of the impact of globalisation in different areas affecting management and how management is responding.

Strategic positioning is the assertion of an organizations personality on decisions of how and where to compete, it determines competitive position in the market place and differentiates the offering to the market.

Francois Dupuy's book describes and analyses how managers need to understand organisations in order to help them effectively implement the changes necessary to operate in today's competitive environment.

Information undoubtedly represents one of the key competitive weapons of the next decade, whether it takes the form of tracking the shopping habits of individual customers or changing the price of airline tickets minute by minute to take advantage of changes in demand.

Launching a new product into numerous countries is a major challenge for managers, particularly those who operate in industries with rapid technological change and high internationalization environments.

'Investors beware' is good advice in any situation, especially when dealing with the control of risk and alternative investments.

China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet has a very different business culture that is often misunderstood outside of China.

This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the interests of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector.

This book provides insight into the emerging global knowledge village dialectic.

The Guangdong province is the forerunner of China's economic reform, it has developed rapidly in the last twenty years since opening up its economy to the outside world.

This book focuses on the study of International business and more specifically 'Is the international business research agenda running out of steam?

Euro on Trial looks back - to the aspirations of the founders - and forward - to the possibility of reform or splitting up.

This book offers insights, knowledge and perspectives on Asian brands and branding as a strategic tool and provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Asian branding strategies and Asian brands, including success stories and challenges for future growth and strengths.

India has realised, later than many other nations, that in order to prosper in the new world economy it will need to successfully manage its knowledge assets.

The West cannot afford to ignore China.

Europe is waking up to the challenge of technology and innovation.

Corporate Governance in the US and Europe provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the most recent developments in corporate governance.

This book examines the manner in which the EU affects employee relations systems in economically peripheral European countries, specifically Ireland and Hungary.