International business

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals who are studying English for business or workplace communication and covers both spoken and written English.

This book brings together leading international scholars and leading scholars from China's highly prestigious Development Research Centre of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, who all put forward their insights into the current challenges for the Chinese and the world economy.

This book provides a critical analysis of merger control regimes in the former socialist countries with small market economies, looking at the unique challenges facing these economies.

Accessibly explains all trade policy terms and concepts likely to be met in trade policy analysis and trade negotiations.

Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Business begins by briefly describing the legacy of environmental and social problems that have arisen as a result of conventional business practices, and then details the coalescence of a broad-based contemporary movement that has been called "e;The Next Industrial Revolution"e;.

China's extraordinary economic development is explained in large part by the way it innovates.

Inland waterways are a host for a mode of transport that is not as visible to the general public or as used as it once was.

The first legal study of voluntary sustainability standards under both European Union and World Trade Organization law.

This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives.

Entrepreneurship in Korea offers a fresh perspective on entrepreneurship in Korea by combining a historical review of the achievements of Korean entrepreneurs at each stage of economic development with an analysis of the activities of current entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the new Korean age.

This book covers multiple areas such as technology and the type of application in aviation, tourism and hospitality with looking at current and future technology application, as well as in a rural tourism perspective.

There is a false assumption that the systemic corruption that exists in significant parts of sub-Saharan Africa is crippling enough to dominate any discussion of business ethics in the region.

The Social Media Manifesto  is a handbook to enable leaders across the business to understand how social technology can be incorporated into their company.

Whatever their industry of origin, all companies are facing the same challenge to a greater or lesser degree: globalization.

This book argues that employers' organizations are resilient organizations that adapt to changing circumstances by developing new practices.

This book lies within two interdisciplinary fields that should be bridged: cross-cultural management and international human resource management.

The fourth edition of International Business Law and the Legal Environment: A Transactional Approach gives business and law students a clear understanding of the legal principles that govern international business.

Executives' morality and ethics became major research topics following recent business scandals, but the research missed a major explanation of executives' immorality: career advancement by "e;jumping"e; between firms that causes ignorance of job-pertinent tacit local knowledge, tempting "e;jumpers"e; to covertly conceal this ignorance.

Despite the growing importance of the global emerging market (GEM) for the world's business, economies, and politics, it has received a relatively scant amount of academic attention in business and economics courses.

After Liberalisation is a radical new view of the pressures that Europe faces over the coming decades.

Get ready to experience the Rules effect.

The domain of international entrepreneurship has continued to gain momentum in an era that sees entrepreneurship and globalization as critical issues in the world of business.

Using case studies from a wide range of fields and historical settings, On Effective Leadership seeks to explain why some leaders are effective, why many are not, and why only a very few are exceptional.

This book presents research on how businesses can be empowered to manage their company's risk exposure in international settings.

A comprehensive empirical study of China''s corporate reorganization law and its implementation.

This book provides a thorough understanding of the key policy debates on international trade and investment for development with a focus on the East African Community (EAC) to strengthen Member States' capacity to develop policies to promote their exports' competitiveness and diversification.

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

SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors.

This book identifies some of the most significant complexities faced by project managers when attempting to implement the PMBOK framework in global projects and provides pointers for existing or aspiring managers and project managers.

Rare Earth Elements are a group of 17 metals which have a central role in modern industry, increasingly used in the fields of green technologies, high technological consumer goods, industrial and medical appliances and modern weapons systems.

Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world.

The second edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully updated with a synopsis of the latest changes in the fields of intercultural communication and leadership development.

According to a 2018 World Bank report, Africa is the only region with more women than men choosing to become entrepreneurs - a phenomenon that is not the subject of adequate discussion.

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

South East Asia has undergone important economic, social and political developments in the last decade.

In the decade following the Asian financial crisis, the East Asian political economy has experienced a radical transformation.

Defining business alignment as the process of "e;ensuring that a new project, program, or process is connected directly to business impact measures, usually expressed in terms such as output, quality, cost, or time,"e; 10 Steps to Successful Business Alignment offers concrete input, detailed suggestions, and pragmatic know-how on how to plan for, implement, and maintain effective alignment for projects of nearly every size and scope.

Drawing upon research and practitioner narratives from management, leadership, organizational studies, entrepreneurship and sustainable business domains, this book explores the many pathways that enable emerging countries to transform knowledge into action to achieve economic and sustainable development.

During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government's administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy.

The impressive growth of trade and investments between China and Latin America has attracted the attention of the business world and policy makers.

This book explores some of the most common mistakes made by multinational companies doing business in China, in both cultural and managerial contexts.

The Palestinian Executive is based on field research in the West Bank and Gaza, which involved interviewing 110 executives from 63 publicly and family-owned companies.

This book explores the dynamics of global innovation networks and their implications for development.

International Marketing in Practice features select case studies relating to businesses from various markets and countries facing the challenges and decisions involved when undertaking international marketing.

Context plays an important role in entrepreneurship and this is increasingly being acknowledged both in research, practice, and policy considerations.

The book investigates the entrepreneurial marketing (EM) concept within the broader discipline of international entrepreneurship.