International business

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.

This book takes a global approach, with an emphasis on North and Latin America respectfully, by discussing one of today's most controversial topics in business; Dollarization.

Meeting the people who grow our bananas and cocoa and make our clothes, this No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade tells the human story behind what we consume.

Working for a matrix international organisation, with its ensuing diverse global teams, based in a variety of geographic locations is a fact of life for most leaders and managers today.

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

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was a highly significant event both for China and for the wider world.

The "e;quality of life"e; concept of quality of life is a broad one.

The authors provide a summary of the main lessons learned from the past twenty-five years regarding public-private partnerships.

Place branding is happening.

The global economy is dominated by a powerful set of established and emerging capitalisms, from the long-standing capitalist economies of the West to the rising economies of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries.

Dr Mohammad Nurunnabi examines the factors that affect the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in developing countries and answers these specific research questions: - What is the relative impact of accounting regulatory frameworks and politico-institutional factors on the implementation of IFRS in developing countries?

Volume 42 of Research in Economic Anthropology focuses on systemic coverage, critical rethinking, and scientific analysis of the current problems facing the world economy and international trade aiming to provide a scientific basis for learning from the COVID-19 pandemic for the global economy and international trade.

This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s.

In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture.

Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses.

The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Law provides an accessible overview of current research in the field, from an international and comparative perspective.

Focusing on international entrepreneurship, this research book explores the accelerated internationalization of young firms.

hether you run a giant corporation or workin a small business, it's more than likely thatyou regularly deal with people of differentcultures-from customers and suppliers tosalespeople and colleagues.

Strategic management is a field that has diversity in approach and scope, but relative homogeneity in pedagogy.

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others?

To fill in the gap in theoretical and empirical aspects in the existing international management literature, the book covers a broad variety of issues relating to the challenges facing companies after the recent worldwide crises of financial, sanitary, and geopolitical nature.

It is rare for countries to give up their currencies and thus their ability to influence such critical aspects of their economies as interest and exchange rates.

This book focuses on doing businesses successfully with China oil, gas and chemicals companies with real business cases on business management and contract negotiations all under one theme.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and using the case of the automotive industry as a starting point this volume discusses how industrial companies can remain competitive in spite of the current economic downturn.

Corporate social responsibility has grown into a global phenomenon that encompasses businesses, consumers, governments, and civil society, and many organizations have adopted its discourse.

The theory of trade has a central place in economic analysis, and underpins the doctrine of free trade.

This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China.

In recent years, luxury goods markets have faced significant changes that have influenced both the dynamics of the competition, as well as their strategies.

This book carries out comprehensive research on the underlying problems regarding the globalization of Chinese enterprises.

Design for Sustainability is a practical approach to design which focuses on the challenges and issues faced by those designing consumer products in the 21st Century.

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment.

This book marks the first attempt to explore de-internationalization and re-internationalization through business model innovation.

The internationalization of business via the process of globalization has brought issues of culture to the forefront of management thinking.

Will the early years of the new century continue to witness the huge growth in merger and acquisition activity which marked the end of the last?

The authors explore the degree to which Chinese multinationals have a distinctive 'Chinese' approach to human resource management, in the same way as large Japanese companies are widely regarded as having a special Japanese approach.

Economic and political reforms and globalization in the developing world have led to the emergence of companies that are expanding beyond their national borders into the international arena.

Economics tends to teach that developed countries have good institutions while developing countries do not, and that this is the factor that constrains the latter's growth.

Brings together the research of world-class commentators on China from across Europe to explore the policy aspects of the China-EU relationship.

Borders in Service traces the intersection of service labour and national identity across global call centres in seven countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mauritius, Morocco, the Philippines, and the US-Mexico border.

This book reveals a variety of issues facing entrepreneurs, SMEs, and entrepreneurship development across South America.

Analyzes the causes of the decline in labor''s global fortunes from 1975 to the 2000s.

A concise textbook focusing on organisational behaviour in the African context, this book is featured in Routledge's new Essentials of Business and Management in Africa shortform textbook series.

The goals of this book are to provide a comprehensive review of identity policies as they are being implemented in various countries around the world, to consider the key arenas where identity policies are developed and to provide intellectual coherence for making sense of these various activities.

China's economy, despite recently weathered challenges, continues to prove attractive to foreign investors, expanding businesses, and entrepreneurs seeking global opportunities.

This book focuses on the dialectics between spatio-organisational gaps and local contexts that characterise cross-border investments.

This eighth volume in the AIB series focuses on globalisation and international business, and presents the work of leading international business scholars delivered at the 27th Academy of International Business conference at the University of Strathclyde.

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an extraordinary inflection point that caught airlines worldwide unprepared, causing CEOs to recalibrate their business models.