Iran is located at the cross-roads of world civilization and inter-continental trade, and has, throughout its long history, played an important role in the movement of goods, people and ideas.
This book looks at customer value creation through marketing decisions and analyses the critical phases of theoretical and methodological advancements in solving certain problems and customer-centric issues that firms face.
Over the last few decades, emerging markets have increased their share in world GDP and have come to play a prominent and growing role in global business.
Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance.
When it was announced in late 2000 that Jeff Immelt would be taking the helm of GE, some skeptics were quick to voice their reservations about the future of the company after Jack Welch.
This book examines the global corporate strategy of Japanese multi-national enterprises (MNEs) and analyses their position in today's business environment.
Capturing the overall development of the Chinese economy, this comprehensive book offers an introduction to one of the most astonishing economic growth stories of the last three decades.
Much of the existing research looks at the outflow of companies and people from Korea to foreign countries, whilst less is known about foreign firms and workers in Korea.
Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite.
International migration is a growing phenomenon in the 21st century and is increasingly seen as a high-priority public policy issue by many governments, politicians, and the broader public throughout the world.
This book examines national reports on contract law in each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in order to provide a comparative analysis.
Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms.
The book develops the idea that a shift in the techno-economic paradigm creates opportunities for the rise of new firms, industries and countries to technological leadership, making the adoption of an adequate national system of innovation fundamental to success in such changes.
This book contributes to growing literature on the role of business groups in the development of corporate sector and contains perspectives from the Indian economy.
The approach to managing human resources has changed significantly in China over the last twenty-five years as its transformation from a state planned economy to a market-oriented economy continues.
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.
This unique book on international business presents a critical review of the role of bounded rationality in internationalization process (IP) research.
This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Using the experience of postwar Western Europe as a benchmark, Jose Antonio Ocampo and his colleagues assess how regional financial institutions can help developing countries often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.
This book focuses on both social and community developments within an entrepreneurship perspective, thereby highlighting the need to foster public and non-profit initiatives that combine with financial needs.
