International business

This book looks at how Chinese companies optimize investment opportunities while implementing the Belt and Road Initiative (B&R or BRI).

Over a century has passed and yet there is growing evidence that knowledge workers across the globe today are as constrained by F.

Leadership on a Blockchain: What Asia Can Teach Us About Networked Leadership is an authoritative text that goes to the foremost digitally connected markets of the world in Asia, and accounts for how leaders and teams are exercising leadership Darwinism to adapt for agility and connectivity.

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

The information age is reshaping current socio-economic structures and processes and this book touches upon the nature of clusters in the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact.

This book examines the challenges faced by emerging market multinationals as they develop their international operations and proposes actionable solutions.

Major religious traditions have begun to reflect on sustainability concerns in their theology and practice.

In kurzer Zeit hat die „Corona-Zäsur“ die Digitalisierung in vielen Lebensbereichen spürbar vorangetrieben, auch in der Personalwirtschaft.

This book draws together themes in business model developments in relation to decentralised business models (DBMs), sometimes referred to as the 'sharing' economy, to systematically analyse the challenges to corporate and organisational law and governance.

Globalisation is forcing companies to reshape their boundaries and causing business leaders to rethink corporate strategies within the firm.

This book provides unique and powerful insights into what it takes to succeed as a chairman leading a modern organization.

This explorative, primary data-based study provides findings on the first nearly two decades of the emerging supermarket industry in Bangladesh, in particular its capital city Dhaka.

Corporate restructuring (acquisitions, alliances and divestment) is a visible form of corporate strategy.

The chapters in this book provide detailed analyses of a range of issues that feed into an overview of the strategic development of the MNE over the past 40 years.

This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa.

From a managerial perspective, the biopharmaceutical industry represents a competitive, fast-changing, intellectually-powered, innovation-driven sector.

Target your business strategies to fit specific tourist cultures!

This book makes a timely and highly stimulating contribution to the discourse on emerging-market multinationals, (EMNCs), as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe from emerging countries (especially from the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India, China) continues to grow in significance.

Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainable world.

This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials.

How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power?

This book presents seven internal dimensions that have a direct impact on an organization's global competitiveness and sustainability: purpose, leadership, passion, people-centered, customer-centric, infrastructure, and viability.

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

With the end of the Cold War, the search for a new international and economic order has begun.

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.

The book throws light on the ongoing trends in international business, integration of information technology with global businesses, its role in value co-creation, resource integration, and service for service exchange.

Isabel Feichtner examines the WTO waiver''s contribution to the effectiveness and legitimacy of WTO law and international governance.

The values and behaviors of the Japanese businessman--and of the Japanese in general--are quite diverse and keep changing, making it difficult for anyone (including the Japanese themselves) to truly understand why they act the way they do.

The book analyzes the recovery process of different industries and sectors from the global health pandemic, as well as its collateral effects.

This book equips readers to optimize genuine export opportunities.

Guanxi or interpersonal relationships is one of the major dynamics of Chinese society.

The search for speed has become the latest initiative in the pursuit of competitive advantage.

This book explores the essence of the middle-income trap based on two major perspectives, namely "e;economic transformation"e; and "e;social transformation"e;.

A timely reflection on law, development and economics through empirical and comparative perspectives on the case of Myanmar.

First Published in 1986.

The separation between ownership and control has become common practice over the last century, in most medium and large firms across the world.

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

In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle.

Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa.

It is an undisputed reality that the tourism industry in Asia is getting exposed to more innovative technologies than ever before.

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries.

This book makes a substantial contribution to the general level of management education in insurance by providing a comprehensive review of the main issues facing the management of insurance enterprises.

Female presence and involvement on boards improves firm performance, transforms corporate governance and leads to the transition towards more responsible business.

Child labour is a serious and contentious issue throughout the developing world and it continues to be a problem whose form and very meaning shifts with social, geographical, economic and cultural context.

Put an end to miscommunication and inefficiency-and tap into the strengths of your diverse team.