International business

Technology offsets, a nonconventional international trade-financing tool, is used by governments (buyers) to obtain industrial and technological benefits from companies (sellers) as part of international procurement.

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

Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country's economic organization and its corporate governance system.

Marieke de Mooij's new edition of Consumer Behavior and Culture continues to explore how cultural influences can affect consumer behavior.

Managers today are faced with numerous complex challenges speckled with paradoxes.

Peter Drahos argues that patent offices serve multinational elites and undermine public rights under the patent social contract.

Focusing on global value chains and their importance to trade, this edited collection explores the strategic role of logistics and supply chain infrastructure in the development of Africa.

The rapid globalization of capital markets has increased attention toward examining the quality of the disclosure practices implemented by companies, as internationalization and globalization are the most important motives of the harmonization of financial statements preparation and presentation.

Combining academic theory with practical case studies, this book helps students understand global financial markets and business management.

The practice and the concept of social enterprise has been studied extensively across the globe; however, the flourishing of nonprofit social enterprises has received little attention over the years, especially in Africa.

Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the workplace.

The Third Edition of International Marketing Research is completely updated to reflect changes in both the structure and practice of international marketing research.

In 21st Century Airlines: Connecting the Dots, Nawal Taneja addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the airline industry as it tries to innovate and create products and services that are radically different by 'connecting the dots' at four key levels: recognizing the implications of global events, improving cross-functional collaboration within the organization, working more closely with the travel chain, and providing much higher engagements with connectors within the social networks.

This pathbreaking volume conveys the "e;state of the art"e; of contemporary research on productivity growth and international competitiveness--arguably the most important problems facing contemporary economics.

Since the implementation of the European Directive on Takeover Bids, a European common legal framework governs regulation of takeovers in EU Members States.

This book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions.

Shipping expert Lorange explains his strategic framework for modern shipping firms, for shipping executives and those preparing to enter the industry.

The Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Asia's financial institutions, markets, and systems.

Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific delves into the ongoing rise of a global economy anchored in a web of inter-firm production networks and the role played by multinational corporations in the process.

The overall aim of this volume is to present the research studies carried out in the Middle East and Asia in the fields of culture and gender and their influence on leadership in particular.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has soared and multinational enterprises (MNEs) have grown in numbers and complexity as globalization has intensified.

This book looks at the pillars of success of high-performing companies, and how they perform in areas such as innovativeness, market orientation, core competencies and leadership and entrepreneurship culture.

Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs.

In the field of international business, it is increasingly recognized that Multinational Corporations (MNCs) can no longer rely on headquarters as the single source of competitive advantage.

A fire sale of US debt could cause a global recession through disorderly devaluation of the dollar, raising interest rates and crashing stock markets.

The way organizations manage entrepreneurship has changed dramatically over the past decade.

While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries' relationships.

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992).

Asian interregional economic cooperation has assumed greater prominence with the rise of Asia's two giant economies of China and India.

Drawing on global empirical evidence, Li offers a novel explanation to the age-old puzzle of why some countries thrive despite corruption.

Isabelle Tsakok looks for patterns common to cases of successful agricultural transformation and then tests them against other cases.

This sixteenth volume in the PIBR series, International Business in Times of Crisis, is dedicated to Professor Geoffrey Jones from the Harvard Business School, and to the importance of historical scholarship in International Business (IB) studies.

Sport is both a global business and a vehicle for social inclusion and community development.

History is replete with examples of one political system replacing another, one scientific discovery invalidating another - and this cycle has occurred repeatedly in the production of goods and products for society.

Many leisure activities involve the use of turf as a surface.

Anna Kolmykova stellt eine interdisziplinäre Forschung der SC Integration sowie die Entwicklung eines Integrationsansatzes für die flexible Einbindung der internationalen Partner in die globale Supply Chain (SC) vor.

The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country's reform and opening in recent years.

The changing character of the economies in Eastern and Western Europe are leading more people to start their own businesses.

Although primarily a method of improving corporate results through motivating employees, ESOPs have a role in corporate finance as a provider of capital in a highly tax efficient manner.

This book is about property, informality and institutions relevant to both the developed and the developing world.

This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives.

An interdisciplinary history of the campaign to secure international protection of indications of geographic origin, including ''Made in …'' slogans.

India is back!

Crises and disruptions can lead to important changes in economic, social and institutional environments.

Part of the successful Routledge 'Working in Asia' series, The Changing Face of Korean Management focuses on a country that is predicted by some experts to become the world's third richest by 2025.

As we become more and more of a global trading world, the challenges of leading and managing within this turbulent environment and its associated, complex, interconnected markets and disconnected relationships are indisputable, so just how far can any change requirements be practically engaged with, whilst also keeping the employee at the organisation's central core?

This book focuses on the development and trends of Chinese local luxury industry in the digital era, which brings a new round of manufacturing transformation and upgrading, as well as development opportunities.

Business groups - large, diversified, often family-controlled organizations with pyramidal ownership structure, such as the Japanese zaibatsu, the Korean chaebol and the grupos economicos in Latin America - have played a significant role in national economic growth, especially in emerging economies.