International business

Graham explores the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and on related issues.

China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of 'reform and opening up' put into place since the late 1970s.

The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce.

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

Age Discrimination looks at how both young and old can be penalised by prejudice against their age group.

Breaking new ground and drawing on contributions from the leading academics in the field, this notable volume focuses specifically on industrial relations.

This volume provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political dimensions of international trade policy.

The papers in this volume demonstrate that it can be fruitful to apply institutional theory to business history.

For African enterprises, entrepreneurs and governments to take full advantage of new digital opportunities, they need a shared strategic understanding of where they are, what they have, and what they may need to have for the future.

This book explores and analyzes cooperative management and provides insight into how Korea's consumer cooperatives have evolved and been managed.

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

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

This book examines a new topic in Human Resource Management (HRM), green - or environmental - HRM, analysing the role humans play in environmental management at work and environmental behaviours at workplaces around the world.

Given the enormous economic and developmental changes being experienced by nations in the Asia-Pacific region, and the related movement of people between and across countries, it is critical that we better understand the HRM policies and practices of these nations.

In the last decade our mobile phones have been infiltrated by angry birds, our computers by leagues of legends and our social networks by pleas for help down on the farm.

The chapters in this book explore the impact of recent shifts in global and regional power and the subsequent development and enforcement of international refugee protection standards in the Asia Pacific region.

How has cultural diversity affected the business climate of the growing European Union?

Trust, Digital Business and Technology: Issues and Challenges presents and discusses the main issues and challenges related to digital trust and information technologies.

A convenient single volume introduction to international arbitration written by experts, including discussion of the latest developments.

While the financial crisis in East Asia could be said to be on the wane in some countries, the reconstruction process in the aftermath and the debate about the financial policies best suited to the region still rages on.

Literature on green marketing continues to gain traction in the sustainability discourse, focusing on core subject areas such as green product development, green marketing strategy and green advertising.

The papers in this volume cover three major areas of International Business: Developments in Theory, The Foreign Market Servicing Strategies of Multinational Firms and Asia-Pacific Issues.

Attracting, managing and retaining talented employees is an important area of human resource management.

This book explores the relationship between tourism/tourists and expressions of contemporary Asian art (for example, artists, objects, intangible artistic productions, digital manifestations, etc) in Asian and non-Asian tourist spaces/experiences.

The inclusion of ethically driven elements into the strategic planning process of multinational corporations (MNCs) is an emerging consideration in the modern era of globalization.

Transparency and accurate management information are essential if you want to ensure that the supply chain is working for your business.

Since 2007, South Africa has been one of the world's upcoming Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) offshore destinations.

This book analyses the recent development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Baltic Sea region and how energy security in the region has improved after Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden have constructed their LNG import terminals.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book is a study of the emergence of international business.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 aims to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

In a fast-moving, globalized world, companies need to develop contingent plans.

Readable, wide-ranging history of multinational enterprise, exploring its role in international events and influence on globalization and the modern world.

An insightful overview of the political, legal and social perspectives which inform corporate governance in China, this book examines the challenges of corporate governance faced by Chinese corporations and international corporations operating in China.

Women Leaders - The Power of Working Abroad will benefit those committed to broadening the ranks of leadership and women aspiring to fast track a career.

This book reveals the complexity of mergers and acquisitions, and explains how to master it.

This special issue provides important new scholarship from a variety of perspectives on the structure, ideology and political history of the central fascist group in interwar and Second World War Yugoslavia, the Croatian Ustasha.

Today's multinational enterprises are headed for trouble unless their top-level executives manage to pay the appropriate amount of 'attention' to what is happening in the farther corners of the business world.

The authors offer an approach to leadership practice which is more appropriate for the challenges of today's digitally networked economy.

Design for Sustainability is a practical approach to design which focuses on the challenges and issues faced by those designing consumer products in the 21st Century.

The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation.

Creativity dreams up ideas, but innovation carries them through.

A billion aspirational people, connected by technology, confident of their cultural and consumption power.

Internationalization is an essential component of the business model for luxury fashion companies.

With the rapid deterioration of the U.

Focusing on the interconnection of tariff structure, international trade and welfare evaluation, the book investigates the characteristics of tariff structures of China and the U.

Exploring the nature, configuration and influence of global elites, this book examines the impact of elites on transnational policy development and strategically on corporations as board members of PLCs and international joint ventures.

Vanda Heinen analysiert die Rolle institutioneller Investoren und Stimmrechtsberater in der deutschen Corporate Governance.