International business

A leadership blueprint for managing cross-cultural issues in any M&A dealIn our rapidly expanding and increasingly volatile global economy, mergers and acquisitions are becoming the strategy of choice for businesses seeking to stimulate growth while managing risk.

Focuses on the individual experiences of Western expatriates in China by merging academic knowledge and real-life testimonials given by interviewees.

How can tech-forward companies, institutions and non-profits stay relevant long term in today's fast changing global economy?

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

This volume examines how foreign firms, which are entering or operating in various Asian countries, have responded to the obstacles and opportunities which were identified in the preceding volumes of this series.

This volume fills an important gap in exploring English in the domains of business and commerce through the prism of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, as opposed to analyzing business genres or taking a linguodidactic approach.

The purpose of this annual report is to develop an index of good humanitarian donorship that will measure donors' effectiveness against their commitment to the Principles and Good Practise of Humanitarian Donorship.

Published in association with the UK Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB), this ninth volume in the AIB series focuses on the new challenges and developments in the field of international business.

In this book, eminent industry specialist Koichi Shimokawa explains the current state of the Japanese automotive industry.

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

This concise overview of the practice and processes of management in the African context is the first of its kind, and the introductory volume in the new Essentials of Business and Management in Africa short-form textbook series.

Entrepreneurship means different things to different people, but the entrepreneurial personality is a critical success factor to any new business.

International business is synonymous with big challenges.

The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection will take effect in October 1998.

Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainable world.

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

Retail is going through difficult times and is suffering the consequences of both the economic crisis and the digitization of society.

The transition process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which started more than a decade ago, has been the focus of much attention for both practitioners and scholars.

This book, first published in 1974, presents the findings of a research project and considers their implications for public policy.

This book examines the experiences of the globalizing Korean automobile industry, with particular focus on the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), one of the most prominent of the new Korean multinational corporations.

The book examines various aspects of Africa's external economy by focusing on regional monetary arrangements and how they are affected by devaluation episodes.

In today's global economy, NAFTA continues to present unprecedented opportunities for companies in cross-border commerce.

The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation was created by a Labour Government in 1966 and dissolved by the incoming Conservative Government in 1971.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the international negotiation system - its key elements and processes, what major issues and challenges it faces, and its impacts on international relations.

A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on positivity and strengths-based approaches at work This handbook makes a unique contribution to organizational psychology and HRM by providing comprehensive international coverage of the contemporary field of positivity and strengths-based approaches at work.

The pharmaceutical industry faces a well-documented perfect storm: on the one hand, the patent cliff; the lack of new blockbusters and, on the other, economic pressure on pricing from markets with growing expectations and shrinking budgets.

This book explores the unique characteristics and complexities of family businesses in India.

This textbook provides a succinct, contemporary introduction to intercultural communication with a focus on actual language use.

This new edition of Globalizing Human Resource Management examines the strategic and global issues of HRM by showing how organizations address the tradeoffs between global integration and local responsiveness.

This book equips readers to optimize genuine export opportunities.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to demystify them for the general public, which is the only way to have a rational debate about them and ultimately to make them truly accountable.

Russian multinationals are playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, particularly in some key sectors such as oil, gas and metallurgy.

Warum sollte man sich, angesichts einer Vielzahl von Problemen im deutschen Gesundheitswesen, mit den Fragen des Internationalen Gesundheitsmanagements befassen?

The focus of this book is the on-going Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, which is endeavouring to further liberalize trade in goods and services.

This title was first published in 2000: The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years.

China is indisputably one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world; however the character, nature and extent of its market economy status remains in question.

What is international business?

The service sector occupies a dominant position in the Japanese economy, yet few studies have looked at the way the industry developed.

Do you understand what it takes to conduct business successfully in the new Russia?

In the 1980s, the extent of Japanese export penetration into other Western economies, particularly the USA, became a matter of international concern.

The amazing e-commerce success story that provides a powerful new growth model for small business start-ups and grassroots entrepreneursOne of the world s fastest growing Internet companies, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma have inspired a generation of young Chinese not just as a road map to riches, but as a lesson in entrepreneurial individualism.

Whatever their industry of origin, all companies are facing the same challenge to a greater or lesser degree: globalization.

Practicing business with a conscience leaves no sector untouched.

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

The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism provides a complete and critical survey of the field of business and economic journalism.