International business

The authors of this important book analyse the pitfalls and risks of doing business in ASEAN countries that are mostly absent in Western markets, covering various strategic, external, operational, and legal-cultural challenges for international companies.

This book is a fascinating treatment of ethics, governance, and anti-corruption initiatives from a public sector management perspective and is especially relevant for an Africa looking to benefit from the recently launched Africa Continental Free Trade Area.

Written by a non-native English-speaking professional speaker with over 20 years of international consulting experience, this book lays out a step-by-step process to improve cross-cultural communication skills and achieve a strong global presence.

This study considers the key strategic issues of the management of customer relationships in international industrial marketing.

Despite recent high GDP growth rates, Vietnam remains a developing country in need of developing human resources (HR) of both genders.

The rapid development of Pacific Asia over the past twenty years offers an excellent opportunity to analyze the dynamics of economic growth.

A highly original book that provides policy solutions for development challenges, framing them with insightful and inventive allegories.

Globalisation, State and Labour combines a new theoretical approach with comparative analysis - ensuring that it will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the globalization debate, the future of the state, and organized labour.

International Trade and the Successful Intermediary reveals how intermediaries can safely and effectively guarantee they are paid commission in lucrative commodity trades.

Against the backdrop of ancient cultures, a communist legacy and eventual institutional atrophy, many of the societies of Central and Eastern Europe have pursued aggressive development trajectories since the early 1990s.

Entrepreneurs exist in every country but the nature and level of entrepreneurial activity differs remarkably.

For worldwide intercultural services, here is one-stop shopping at its best.

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.

With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world.

Hong Kong Identity: A Scholarly Record is an empirical analysis of the city's territorial identity politics.

This book reveals the complexity of mergers and acquisitions, and explains how to master it.

An examination of the greening of the automotive industry by the path dependence of countries and carmakers' trajectories.

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

The author of this thought provoking addition to Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series has worked as a management consultant in the Arab Middle East for 25 years.

This book examines India-China relations throughout history as well as in the context of current business cooperation and competition.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book aims to bring the insights gained through this process to the public.

This book provides the latest research in the application of innovative technology to the tourism industry in Bangladesh, covering the perspectives, theories, issues, complexities, as well as opportunities and the challenges present.

Designed for the businessman, this is a handbook of international trade.

This volume explores the dynamic nature of emerging markets, which constitute a major share of global GDP, with a focus on the opportunities for growth and the challenges for businesses in meeting the needs of a diverse set of consumers.

This book explores the differential mode of people management in the Chinese context.

The Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business is a one-stop source for international managers, business educators and trainers who seek to either select and use an existing experiential learning project, or develop new projects and exercises of this kind.

Repo, from sale and repurchase agreement, is one for the oldest and widely used instruments in global capital markets.

Micha Hirschinger emphasizes the importance of foresight on logisticsand institutions in particular for effective decision making as distinctresearch in this context is limited.

This book provides an overview of international investment policy and policy-making, drawing upon perspectives from law, economics, international business, and political science.

The 1980s saw an alarming revival of protectionism among Western countries, as a result of a decade of persistent economic crises, slow growth, industrial decline and rising unemployment.

Using rigorous economic analysis backed by solid data and accounts of real life experiences, this book twists conventional wisdom to drive the thinking about China 'outside the box'.

This book explores the simultaneous Asianisation and feminisation of mid-level management in the financial services sector in world and global cities in the Asia-Pacific.

Products and services created by small and medium sized organizations account for the vast majority of economic activity across the globe.

This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan.

Since the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, from 1990 onwards, its multinational companies (MNCs) have faced new competitive challenges, and questions about the management practices on which they had built their initial success in global markets.

There are many textbooks devoted to international trade but few volumes that survey trade theory, policy, and negotiations in a concise, up-to-date manner from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the economic and business history of Sudan, placing Sudan into the wider context of the impact of imperialism on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Trade between China and Africa is increasing year on year, while the Westincreasingly debates the nature and implications of China's presence.

Classic leadership theory is presented here in a fresh and fashionable framework in this new, practical book for managers.

This book dives deep into everyday entrepreneurial stories with an engaging narrative, based on theory, while providing practical implications by highlighting diverse entrepreneurial examples in emerging themes.

This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors.

Five years into World Trade Organization membership, how is China's system of people-management adaprting to the changing world?

These papers provide a cutting-edge overview of general issues regarding world capital markets, experience in developing countries, and capital market regulation, which many economists believe could turn into the number one topic in international business and economics.

Given the enormous economic and developmental changes being experienced by nations in the Asia-Pacific region, and the related movement of people between and across countries, it is critical that we better understand the HRM policies and practices of these nations.

The readings collected in Organizational Sociology are organized so as to direct attention to the six major theoretical traditions which have emerged since the 1960s to guide research and interpretation of organizational structure and performance.

The book focuses on the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of Korea and the strong influence these have on women leaders in the nation.

Economics and Business Environment is targeted at students preparing for a career in a managerial position in business or public service.

This book compares two countries with striking parallels in economic and political outcomes, yet with some distinct features in terms of institutional structures, relative size, and culture.

The automotive aftermarket is a part of the global value network that involves manufacturing, trading, distributing and developing goods and services to global and local automotive markets.