International business

Many companies and organisations have embarked upon change programmes as part of a quest for a common vision, identity and set of values.

This collection describes the changing structure of employment during the period of robust employment expansion that preceded the credit crunch and features contributions from a team of leading labour market researchers from Europe and the United States.

The Japanese management style is unique compared with those in the U.

Though it's widely understood that inward foreign direct investment has played a major role in mediating China's emergence into the international economic system, how and why MNEs have implemented their involvement as part of their global strategy is less well understood.

An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis.

Explores the impact of country and firm specific factors, the role of institutions and governments, the strive for compensation of initial disadvantages and the struggle in finding ways to counterbalance late coming into the international arena in the process of internationalization.

Award winning case studies focusing on the growth of innovation in India.

The impressive growth of trade and investments between China and Latin America has attracted the attention of the business world and policy makers.

Provides the theoretical framework on how to manage crises in organizations.

Why do some companies succeed better than others?

This book is about how power communication inrecent years hasbegun to reflect on its own limits in a new way.

Developing BRIC markets are changing the business models of traditional western technology leaders.

This book provides authoritative academic and professional insights into the strategies of Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined.

Written by experts in Luxury and Fashion Management at SKEMA Business School this exciting new book offers a new perspective that challenges the established rules of the luxury and fashion industry.

A structural overview of the new field of management geography including globalization, embeddedness of MNEs, networking, hybridization, regional economies, technology, acculturation, internationalization, IHRM and implications for management and government.

Looks at the bigger picture, and the future trends that are going to affect the global business world over the next few years.

This book discusses continuous improvement strategies of Japanese convenience store operators.

Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy traces the evolution of corporate governance over time, with a particular focus on the changing nature of power.

Negotiation is an important managerial skill.

Published as part of Palgrave Macmillan's IE Business Publishing Series, Simply Seven is a practical guide to Internet business for students, entrepreneurs and executives.

Good governance is key to the sustainability of organizations and improving quality of life for all.

Recent corporate failures have attracted the attention of managers, governments and the general public to the role of governance and social responsibility.

What effect have innovations in digital technology had on the way we communicate and work, and what can we expect from the future?

The dangers of involvement in corruption need to be embedded in corporate strategy.

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.

Private Equity in Poland focuses on the private equity industry and emerging markets in Poland.

This book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA.

This book provides comprehensive coverage on the key issues of Chinese investment in the Australian minerals industry.

A comprehensive insight into a region which is characterized by rapid economic and social changes with a significant rise in foreign direct investments and privatization.

For many years companies have been investing in enterprise systems and IT initiatives but they are now struggling to achieve the desired results.

Staying at the pinnacle of the advancing business development of transition economies and the impact of changing business conditions is a challenging task for all firms wanting to do business in them.

With the accelerating integration of China into the global economy, there is a thirst to understand how Chinese managers like to lead and how Chinese employees like to be managed.

As potentially the largest retail market, China has attracted a great number of foreign retail operations.

Indian firms have grown explosively over the last two decades since India adopted wholesale neo-liberal policies in 1991.

This tells the story of the development of the private equity industry in Germany.

Focusing on safety and environmental protection issues, this book provides incisive, cutting-edge theoretical analysis that evaluates the impact of new automotive technologies, and the associated public policies, on social welfare.

The crisis in the auto industry has resulted in a race between Volkswagen, as challenger, and Toyota, as tattered global market leader.

Using 18 new cases this book shows that in the past companies did not manage labour or customers as long as they did not need to.

Negotiation is a key part of daily lives, but learning how to negotiate successfully is a valuable skill.

If you think more strategically than your competitors, your company will win the competitive battle in the mid or long term.

Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture.

How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant?

'Navigating paradigm changes is a critical element of businessleadership: analog to digital; brand to retailer to consumer; reasonto emotion; West to East.

A unique exploration of the the contributions made by multinational corporations to the difficult labour market transitions towards full integration of Central and Eastern Europe members of the European Union.

Sport has a number of distinctive characteristics whichimpact onthe extent of its globalization.

A comprehensive picture of the Greek business system and management practices placed in a comparative context.

In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle.

In today's globalised world there is a need to investigate new trends in the global economy which impact on Europe.

This book looks at the space industry from a business perspective, with a focus on international competition.