International business

This book focuses on microeconomic foundations of capital structure theory.

Ethical Theory and Business is the authoritative guide to business ethics and CSR, with cutting edge theoretical readings and cases.

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.

'Africa is a lost cause'.

New technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), etc.

The forces of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) in today's world are shaping businesses and calling into question the wisdom of existing business models.

The only comprehensive textbook on Europe''s business environment, examining the region''s economics and policies in social, political and historical contexts.

The traditional dominance of international markets by companies from the US, Western Europe and Japan can no longer be taken for granted.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, important changes in external environments have affected the corporate governance practices of firms all around the world.

This text challenges students to think critically about global issues that affect the business environment and provides them with a wealth of pedagogical features that help cement learning.

The need to ensure principle-driven, legally sound, and ethically acceptable behavior in the global context is not an easy task for leaders.

This book looks at Japanese companies in manufacturing and services sectors and how they are trying to emerge from the prolonged uncertainty of the pandemic.

The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) encompasses the legislative text and political resolutions regulating fiscal policy and public finances in EMU.

A proven framework for measuring the supply chain potential of geographic regionsManaging a complex global supply chain requires a strategic assessment of the various factors that can affect decisions on procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and sales.

This second edition textbook shows how macroeconomic models for industrial countries may be applied to emerging and developing economies.

The purpose of World Humanism: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Ethical Practices in Organizations is to discover what is distinctive about humanistic management practices around the world.

In contrast to widespread assessments that family enterprises lack sufficient resources and capabilities to go global, many family companies are competing successfully in an increasingly globalized business environment.

A key distinctive feature of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) as organizations resides in the fact that they span across borders.

Explains how managers can successfully build multinationals in emerging markets from the analysis of forty-one comparative cases of Mexican multinationals.

Trade between China and Africa is increasing year on year, while the Westincreasingly debates the nature and implications of China's presence.

Title first published in 2003.

In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical.

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in which national actors form their interests and represent them.

This textbook focuses on how sustainability is practiced in companies in different sectors of the global economy - examples include aviation, banking, energy, financial services, food, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and tourism.

China's spectacular rise challenges established economic moulds, both at the national level, with the concept of "e;state capitalism"e;, and at the firm level, with the notion of indigenous "e;Chinese management practices"e;.

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.

A major development in recent research on the multinational enterprise (MNE) is the increased attention given to the interdependent, differentiated roles of the subsidiaries and their implications for MNE and subsidiary management.

As globalization explodes, so has international business scholarship.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.

This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As).

This book is a curated compilation of research articles exploring compelling issues associated with accounting and auditing in China.

The rise of China poses a significant challenge to the existing, Western-dominated world economic order.

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations.

The Development of International Monetary Policy traces the development of international monetary policy from mercantilism to quantitative easing.

There has been a segmented approach to documenting the impact of COVID-19 and recovery prospects for global tourism destinations.

For the business and government relationship in Japan, the pre-war period was an era of considerable change.

The Japanese management style is unique compared with those in the U.

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.

Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences are contributing to the emergence of intelligent computers and robots with elements of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines.

Work organizations can lose their fitness and become sick, just as people can.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2016.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

For many decades, management in its research and practice has been in need of an alternative approach and paradigm to understanding human behaviours.

There are no miracles in Latin America, says international consultant Louis Nevaer-only opportunities-and with economic integration well underway, these opportunities are more promising than ever for U.

The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth, a debate which from the 1980s seemed settled in favour of the neo-liberal, non-interventionist consensus, has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008 and after.

Now in its third edition, this is the only outsourcing and offshoring book to offer a broad but coherent guide to the strategy, operations and management of ITO and BPO outsourcing and offshoring, from how to source new relationships to managing business processes in a national and global context.

This book documents and explains how strategic human resource management (SHRM) and high performance work systems (HPWS) have been adopted among indigenous enterprises, namely state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and domestic private enterprises (DPEs) in China, from both management and employee perspectives.

China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet its business culture is often misunderstood.