International business

This collection of essays examines the role of managers as employees in nine industrialized countries--Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, West Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, and Japan.

This book examines how organizations can, and should, transform their practices to compete in a world economy.

This pathbreaking volume conveys the "e;state of the art"e; of contemporary research on productivity growth and international competitiveness--arguably the most important problems facing contemporary economics.

Like its companion volume, Telecommunications in Europe, this book deals with the evolution of powerful monopoly institutions in the communications field--the public broadcasters--and the dramatic changes that took place in the late 1980s throughout Europe, and transformed the media landscape.

The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years, along with the rise of Japan as a major economic and technological power (and enhanced technical sophistication of Taiwan, Korea, and other NICs) has led to what the authors believe to be a "e;techno-nationalism.

The New Industrializing Countries (NICs) of the Pacific Basin--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--differ in many ways such as their languages, cultures, political and economic systems.

As Japanese automotive and electronics firms have expanded their operations into the United States more attention has been focused on Japanese management and manufacturing.

In 1933 and 1956, the United States sharply limited the kinds of securities activities, commercial activities, and insurance activities banks could engage in.

This book describes why, for the past twenty-five years, Japanese productivity has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the U.

A modern telecommunications network is an essential infrastructure for the world's developing nations.

This collection explores the expansion of Japanese multinational firms into Asia, a process which paralleled the region's growth as a major economic region.

The conventional view of globalization sees it as a process driven by giant firms from the Triad regions of North America, Europe, and Japan, shaping the world in their own image.

What is the true source of a firm's long-term competitive advantage in manufacturing?

This book analyzes the top management of leading Japanese enterprises.

Japanese women, who comprise more than 40% of their country's workforce, are essential to the Japanese economy.

Over the last two decades, Japanese firms have challenged U.

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth empirical study of Chinese organizational design in state and private enterprises.

This book shows how philanthropy can be a primary force in the transfer of technology in transitional societies.

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.

This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies.

Who is afraid of the WTO, the World Trade Organization?

As large firms move into international markets, smaller firms find it increasingly difficult to compete internationally.

In his 1972 Janeway Lectures at Princeton, James Tobin, the 1981 Nobel Prize winner for economics, submitted a proposal for a levy on international currency transactions.

Knowledge-Driven Work is a pioneering study of the cross-cultural iffusion of ideas about the organization of work.

In an age of rapidly changing technology, shifting global opportunities, and activist shareholders, executives are expected to respond quickly.

The phenomenon of globalization has been debated for decades.

The phenomenon of globalization has been debated for decades.

The growth of the multinational enterprise (MNE) has led to an increasing interest in international business strategy from scholars, professionals, and policy makers alike.

The growth of the multinational enterprise (MNE) has led to an increasing interest in international business strategy from scholars, professionals, and policy makers alike.

Since the 1980s, Spain and South Korea have experienced a dramatic transformation from middle-income to advanced economies.

Since the 1980s, Spain and South Korea have experienced a dramatic transformation from middle-income to advanced economies.

This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development.

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

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

Drawing on thirty years of empirical research, this book reveals the diversity of managerial practices that may be observed throughout the world, even in places where companies are using management methods that appear identical.

Drawing on thirty years of empirical research, this book reveals the diversity of managerial practices that may be observed throughout the world, even in places where companies are using management methods that appear identical.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008/09, international cooperation has failed to curb volatile financial markets.

Trade has made the world.

Trade has made the world.

Veiled Power conducts a thorough historical study of the relationship between international law and business corporations.

Veiled Power conducts a thorough historical study of the relationship between international law and business corporations.

This volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's developed economies.

The concept of guanxi is used extensively in Chinese society.

The concept of guanxi is used extensively in Chinese society.

One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise.

One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise.

Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at first hand, many of the major events of the 20th century; the great depression in the US; the rise of Nazism in Europe; the second world war when she worked as a special adviser to the US Ambassador in London; post-war reconstruction, assisting Eleanor Roosevelt with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the McCarthy era; and the oil crisis of the 1970s.