International business

Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions.

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization.

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs).

This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects.

Mini-set F: Philosophy & Religion re-issues 4 volumes originally published between 1926 and 1967.

This innovative book presents an up-to-date account of service operations, spanning topics such as IT-enabled services, service supply chain and volatility of demand and supply.

Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction.

The second edition of Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street offers a modern guide for how to adapt public relations strategies, messages, and tactics for countries and cultures around the globe.

Within management thinking, behaviours have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining.

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "e;ubiquitous computing system"e; (UCS).

Although the subject of trust has received increasing attention in the fields of organisation studies and, to some extent, entrepreneurship, the field has, to date, largely been characterised by theoretical work which, though useful, is still often difficult - if not impossible to operationalise.

Darwin's Medicine is the sequel to Brian D.

This book provides a holistic conceptualization of social sustainability, going beyond the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and showcases how the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizing social sustainability can be integrated into business studies' curricula in different parts of the world.

Answers the question, ''what can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies?

This book offers a meditation on the links between philosophy and its implementation, interpreting why and how a leader's "e;philosophy"e; strengthens his action predicated on the purposeful vision of life; and discusses the  a hypothesis that performance control in management may be driven by transcendental and intrinsic motivations, contrasting with the traditional management control theory.

Dr Pechlaner and Dr Innerhofer, the editors of Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, argue that the industry operates within highly challenging and competitive environments.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

This book includes papers presented at the 14th International Conference "e;Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries"e; (EBEEC), held in Florence, Italy, in May 2022.

This comprehensive handbook offers a state-of-the-art guide to new frontiers of African entrepreneurship.

Using a series of twelve historical case-studies that are based on extensive archival research, this book explains why firms succeed or fail in communicating or transferring knowledge and discovering new expertise.

This book presents a wide range of tools and techniques used in entrepreneurial finance in emerging markets.

With considerable turmoil in international trade and logistics it is more important than ever to understand trade and customs issues and their impact on logistics operations.

This book deals with competition policy from the standpoint of a business executive.

This book presents a new conceptualization of the idea of legacy in a family business setting as an educational experience of teaching and learning between generations.

Assembles leading theorists of a new paradigm of political theory, State Crimes Against Democracy , undertaking judicious and devoted hacking exposing the elusive nodes and circuitry that propagate elite dominance in world affairs, and what can be done to restore the demos to democracy.

Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water.

Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic.

This book is about women directors in China and India.

Although literature on corporate social responsibility is vast, research into the use and effectiveness of various communications through digital platforms about such corporate responsibility is scarce.

Dieses Buch verfolgt das Ziel, die Rückkopplungseffekte einer Standardänderung innerhalb der IFRS-Rechnungslegung auf die unternehmerischen Handlungsmöglichkeiten des Bilanzierenden ökonomisch zu analysieren und diese normativ kritisch zu würdigen.

The degree to which the extensive business networks of ethnic Chinese in Asia succeed because of ethnic characteristics, or simply because of the sound application of good business practice, is a key question of great current concern to those interested in business, management and economic development in Asia.

The Private Planning Association of Canada initiated the Atlantic Economic Studies Program to study the implications for Canada of trade liberalization and closer economic integration among the nations bordering the North Atlantic.

Der vorliegende Leitfaden wurde im Rahmen eines wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprojekts entwickelt und in einer realen Praxisanwendung validiert.

What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there?

First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems.

This contributed volume focuses on the management and governance of international business networks (IBN).

The book provides insights, description and analysis over the knowledge production process within business, organization, and management research.

Fifteen years ago, a company was considered innovative if the CEO and board mandated a steady flow of new product ideas through the company's innovation pipeline.

This clear, concise summary of the in-depth analyses presented in The Political Economy of American Trade Policy examines the level, form, and evolution of American trade protection.

This text provides a structured and practical framework for understanding the complexities of contemporary public relations.

Developed and key developing countries heavily support their farmers.

The tropics is an area of enormous opportunity and potential.

Angesichts neuer Arbeitswelten, demografischer Entwicklung, schnelleren Wissensumschlages und stärkeren Wettbewerbs spielt wirtschaftsnahe Qualifizierung und Weiterbildung in der Personalentwicklung eine große Rolle.

This text considers how multinationals transfer structures, policies and practices across national borders.

Spurred by global macro-economic shifts, commercial and financial turbulence, as well as technological leaps in the early years of the new millennium, the Danish shipping industry has changed dramatically since the turn of the century.

On the basis of discussions and analysis of the current environment for international competition, this book was written to dispel misconceptions regarding the motivating forces behind internationalization and, therefore, to improve understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities of a global market and production base.

This book addresses how economic spaces dynamically change within the context of the global knowledge-based economy.

This book is readers who wish to develop their knowledge, insight, skills, and facility into integrated communications within the post-modern era, a topic of relevance everywhere, but particular apposite as the original conference was hosted in Turkey, a rapidly developing nation, and one enjoying significant growth in the global.