International business

The book focuses on key emerging areas concerning flexible systems management as an approach for transforming organizations.

China's late Chairman Mao Zedong once said "e;Women hold up half the world"e;, but in several respects the full emancipation of women still remains a global challenge.

This book explores the rapid growth of the sharing economy, specifically of Airbnb, in recent years and how it has challenged traditional economies in many countries around the globe.

This book explores the increased necessity of organizations to encourage human talent in the globalized economy, with particular emphasis on the impact in Eastern Europe.

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies.

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups.

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.

The China Business Model: Originality and Limits emphasizes transformation of the Chinese Business Model over the last decades.

Introducing the global mind-set changing the way we do business.

Virtual teams can be traced back to the 1990s with the debauched development of communication technologies as well as the fast extension of the internet.

Virtual teams can be traced back to the 1990s with the debauched development of communication technologies as well as the fast extension of the internet.

This book is designed to help Business Controllers / Accountants / Finance Directors / Bankers / Financial Analysts / Business Consultants to understand that International Business Control is much more than just a business being IFRS and US GAAP compliant, or just an extension of the domestic HQ control system.

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.

Globalisation has created many opportunities for economic development, but it is also associated with rising income inequality and poverty.

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors.

With more than 900 million consumers, the continent of Africa is one of the world's fastest growing markets.

International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries.

Applied game theory in purchasing has become an important tool in many companies for systematically achieving success in negotiations.

Culture studies in international business are passing through difficult times of scrutiny and critique.

Applied game theory in purchasing has become an important tool in many companies for systematically achieving success in negotiations.

Owing to the convergence of multiple cultures coupled with the unprecedented rapid development in the decades since the late 1990s, the value creation and innovation logic of Asia-Pacific business models (BMs) has been constantly altered by cultural heterogeneity.

This book is a must read for aviation managers and all stakeholders that are interested in improving the business performance of airlines.

Now in its ninth edition, The Cultural Dimension of Global Business continues to provide an essential foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business and global business on culture.

The Middle East has for a long time been at the centre of global trade as well as political interest.

The Middle East has for a long time been at the centre of global trade as well as political interest.

This textbook explains the effects of culture on business practices and introduces students to the cross-cultural and international dimensions of working internationally, exploring topics across both business and finance.

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.

Until quite recently, the Japanese inspired a kind of puzzled awe.

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

The Asia-Pacific region, sustaining more than four decades of rapid growth, has emerged as an economic force comparable in significance to Europe and North America.

This book engages with Foucault's theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China.

This book defines oil price as a social institution that exists beyond supply-demand mechanisms.

This book investigates the South African business cycle and its links to structural change in the economy.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the intricacies related to compensation and reward management in Indian organizations-a vital strategic feature of HR management.

This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses.

In an increasingly globalized world, the face of higher education-particularly in the fields of business and economics-is evolving rapidly.

The developing markets of Africa, Asia and the Middle East are quickly becoming the future of world economic and trade development.

This volume presents a collection of cases that examine the status of financial inclusion for women across a variety of states in the African continent.

World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority.

This textbook examines how service firms manage their international operations.

This book is an attempt to bridge the academic discipline of economic geography with the professional field of economic development.

Until recently, double-digit economic growth was not unusual among Asian countries and, in fact, had come to be expected of them.

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The three dominant forces shaping societies and economies around the world are globalization, privatization, and liberalization.

How are the new electronic technologies transforming business here and abroad - indeed, the entire world economy - and what new strategies must business develop to meet the challenges of this transformation?

Bankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages won't solve their banking crises.

This book features a selection of papers presented at the 15th International Conference "e;Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries"e; (EBEEC), held at the University of the Aegean in Chios, Greece, May 12-14, 2023.

Der argentinische Markt bietet faszinierende Geschäftsmöglichkeiten, aber auch einzigartige Herausforderungen.

The practice and the concept of social enterprise has been studied extensively across the globe; however, the flourishing of nonprofit social enterprises has received little attention over the years, especially in Africa.