International business

The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised commercial banks, and its first modern regulatory agency: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

An in-depth analysis of the legal criteria that the WTO sets for preferential trade agreements in the area of services.

For organisations and management the role of business ethics is of key importance, but to what extent business ethics are actually new or fashionable or universally applicable are interesting questions.

This book evaluates how and why vertical disintegration has occurred in the global corporate hotel industry, as it undergoes a structural transformation.

Written by leading scholars, this new third edition provides readers with a comprehensive and authoritative examination of emerging markets across the globe.

Starting a business is hard, but keeping an established company going can be equally challenging.

The new edition of Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management examines the interactions between people, cultures, and human resource systems in a wide variety of regions throughout the world.

'Investors beware' is good advice in any situation, especially when dealing with the control of risk and alternative investments.

"e;This volume brings together various emerging perspectives in strategy research for further interaction and debate.

This book offers research geared toward understanding culture and its influence on the success of global businesses.

Many of the world's 40,000 International NGOs (INGOs) work in places where terrorist financing, sanctions breaches, and diversion are key risks.

Chinese companies have been increasingly active in outbound investment in recent years, with Germany the third largest destination in Europe.

This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets.

This volume reclaims Mumbai's legacy as a global financial centre of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century.

Corporate governance is not just about models of best practice organisation or prescriptions following laws or social conventions.

Internet + and Electronic Business in China is a comprehensive resource that provides insight and analysis into E-commerce in China and how it has revolutionized and continues to revolutionize business and society.

Learn how your business can tap into foreign markets In Export Now, two international business experts reveal the secrets to taking your company global.

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

For the last 138 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

It is widely felt that the public sector in many developing countries is too large, and that privatisation would benefit both the users of individual services and the economy in general.

A collection of essays about the US Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 and the subsequent stagnation from prominent scholars.

This book selects Chinese excellent enterprise management cases, integrating into the education system of business schools, sharing "e;China's new story"e; to readers, and boosting the process of national economic construction and enterprise transformation.

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises?

This book is based on the review of literature on different themes related to business and management in the Asia Pacific context.

For the first time, here is the complete history of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization.

This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in North Korea since late 2005, continuing the overview of developments which were covered in the author's North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (Routledge 2006).

Russia is a major economy and important power in the global political-economic landscape.

An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis.

Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together papers on the organisational structure of select public enterprises from nine countries, developed and developing.

It is no secret that Europe is currently undergoing a major economic and social crisis, so it is essential says Dimitris Chorafas that leaders of industry and finance within the EU, or doing business with the EU, know what is going on.

Praise for The IKEA Edge A very good book from a talented business leader [that links] values, culture, and the achievement of business and social objectives together.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the many factors that influence the internationalisation of SMEs into China.

A key feature of being a successful entrepreneur is to have strong decision-making skills and decisions are best made when not swamped with emotion - either positive or negative.

The trade policies addressed in this book have far-reaching effects on the world's increasingly interdependent economies, but until now little research has been devoted to them.

This book is a political-economic analysis of China's transformation to become a global aviation power.

This book analyzes both the Chilean state policies on commercial aviation and the corporate history of the state-owned airline Linea Aerea Nacional (LAN) between 1929 and 1989.

International trade plays a definitive role in the economic growth process.

In the twenty-first century, as traditional divides are redefined, bargaining over corporate responsibilities has increasingly centred around corporate reputation and the question of whether businesses are part of society's problems or part of their solution.

Companies can no longer expect to engage in dubious or unethical corporate behaviour without risking their reputation and damaging, perhaps irrevocably, their market position.

Tourism is often a key driver of economic growth in many countries.

Darwin's Medicine is the sequel to Brian D.

This book introduces the concept of n-Culturalism - a play on the notation of sub-sample size indicating that multiple and different samples can exist within a body of work/research.

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "e;developmental state"e; is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour - a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development - this book argues that in fact the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over the interests of labour.

The process of the transition to a market-oriented economy for countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) started some 25 years ago.