Unlike Brazil, India, or China, prior to the beginning of market-oriented reforms in early 1990s, Russia maintained a high level of human capital and possessed a highly developed system of vocational education, continuous education, and management development institutions sponsored by the government.
Reflecting increasing investment in entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this new book offers extensive coverage of the factors that enable Emiratis to start and grow a business.
Together with efforts to control the arms race, commercial issues were a central feature of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
This book looks at various aspects of tourism education in Asian countries and the impacts of sustainable development in tourism education to the Asian student markets.
With stagnated demand in many home economies, the need to internationalize and exploit foreign market opportunities has never been more paramount for businesses to succeed at a global level.
Combining economics and business perspectives, this undergraduate textbook explores key principles of the world economy through a uniquely integrated lens.
Entrepreneurship depends on the decisions that people make about how to undertake that process; however, in recent years, entrepreneurship research has focused largely on the environmental characteristics influencing firm founding and the characteristics of entrepreneurial opportunities, ignoring the role of human agency.
This book, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive reference of the laws and practice relating to trade between China and the rest of the world, at a time when the country had only recently opened its markets to foreigners.
This book, first published in 1947, sets out to describe what co-operative research is, how it is organised and in what way it contributes to a variety of problems around the globe.
Workplace Bullying and Harassment: New Developments in International Law provides a comprehensive tour around the globe, summarizing relevant legislation and key developments in workplace bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, violence, and stress in over 50 countries in Europe, the Asia Pacific region, the Americas region, and the Middle East and Africa.
This book explores the linkages between the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financing and governance in Japan since the late 2000s.
Based on migration dynamics in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, this edited volume focuses on the activities of grassroots and informal non-state actors.
This collection of papers arises from two major international conferences on inward investment and regional development, and the role of accumulated capital in regional business development.
In today's fast growing digital world, the web, mobile, social networks and other digital platforms are producing enormous amounts of data that hold intelligence and valuable information.
Juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D with in-depth case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecentres to draw implications for the possible development trajectories induced by the provision of ICTs in rural hinterlands of India.
Vietnam has enjoyed significant economic success since the implementation of its "e;doi moi"e; reforms, including rapid growth in GDP, exports and foreign and domestic investment, and a shedding of poorly-performing state-owned enterprises.
Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation.
Re-issuing this successful book in its seventh edition the author starts with an overview of basic marketing concepts and their applicability on an international basis.
This title was first published in 2000: The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years.
This book empowers you to immediately grasp the opportunities that present themselves in international commercial negotiation, and to be able to create and maintain positive, mutually beneficial relationships with other parties that are long lasting and productive.
Enhancing Board Effectiveness seeks to examine the conceptualization and role of the board in a variety of contexts and articulate solutions for improving the effectiveness of the board, especially in developing and emerging markets.
A Brookings Institution Press and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) publicationUsing the experience of postwar Western Europe as a benchmark, Jos Antonio Ocampo and his colleagues assess how regional financial institutions can help developing countriesoften at a disadvantage within the global financial framework finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.
In what will be essential reading for all industrial relations scholars, Gill Kirton considers the social construction of women's trade union participation in the context of male dominated trade unions.
This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging.
Wirtschaftliches Handeln findet heute zunehmend im internationalen Kontext statt und überschreitet dabei mehrfach Ländergrenzen, was sich immer deutlicher in den alltäglichen Wertschöpfungsprozessen von Unternehmen niederschlägt.
This book examines the economic environment and phenomena of multinational business with reference to case studies of major multinational companies, including IBM, Philips, Nissan and Volvo.