International business

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories.

The extent to which firms can react creatively to rather than adjust passively against new techniques and practices is dependent on their command of technological knowledge and relative competence.

The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias.

Meet your new global consumerYouve heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy.

How do leaders lead for high performance in Asia, the fastest growing region in the world?

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences of contemporary human resource management systems, processes and practices in the two increasingly important economic great powers in Asia.

Arts and cultural activity in Asia is increasingly seen as important internationally, and Asia's growing prosperity is enabling the full range of artistic activities to be better encouraged, supported and managed.

Islamic finance's phenomenal growth owes to the Shariah compliant nature of its financial instruments.

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

Sustainable development is an internationally recognised objective for governments, businesses and societies.

With the accelerating integration of China into the global economy, there is a thirst to understand how Chinese managers like to lead and how Chinese employees like to be managed.

This book focuses on social perspectives of women's entrepreneurship, in the context of work-life balance and crowd-based business modelling, and economic perspectives associated with quality-of-life expectations.

Despite growing skepticism about the value of international law and its compatibility with state sovereignty, states should improve and strengthen international law because it makes a critical contribution to an international order characterized by peace and justice.

It is now widely recognized that in regions like Africa, for economic and other reasons, the public sector has had to disengage and divest from many areas of the economy and allow private enterprise, especially scalable start-ups and new ventures, to enter and flourish if economic development and employment are to grow.

Alongside burgeoning global business, which asserts its legality, ethics and social responsibility, there exists a dark side of shadow trades manifesting various shades of legitimacy.

How an individual responds to crises and critical incidents at work, both immediately and subsequent to the event, is heavily influenced both by personality characteristics and their use of coping strategies.

The legal foundations of global governance are shifting.

This book features a selection of papers presented at the 15th International Conference "e;Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries"e; (EBEEC), held at the University of the Aegean in Chios, Greece, May 12-14, 2023.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008/09, international cooperation has failed to curb volatile financial markets.

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Macro Talent Management in Emerging and Emergent Markets is the first book to focus specificially on country-level activities that are aimed at attracting, developing, mobilizing, and retaining top talent for economic success in emerging or emergent markets.

A globalization process epitomised by historically large cross-border population movements with rapidly improving networking and communication technologies, has resulted in the growth of ethnic diversity across newly industrialised economies.

Capturing the overall development of the Chinese economy, this comprehensive book offers an introduction to one of the most astonishing economic growth stories of the last three decades.

In a globalized world economy, delivering the aspirations of sustainability is proving to be difficult.

The traditional walls between banking, insurance and securities markets are breaking down as a result of deregulation and liberalization of financial services.

Lukas Morbe sheds light on important antecedents of international retailers' local performance including international strategies and their local implementation, local consumers' perceptions as well as the wider country- and format-specific environment.

One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this book puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history and includes recent controversial deals, as well as case studies on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Darfur.

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations.

First published in 1989, Shaping the Corporate Future describes how executives in some of Europe's leading companies see the future for their organizations.

Quality Management: Reconsidered for the Digital Economy continues to provide a one-stop-shop for anyone studying the theory and practice of quality management.

By any standard, the pharmaceutical industry's history has been a successful one.

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the special category of countries popularly referred to as 'transition economies' through an analysis of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their role in Asian economies, with a view to assessing whether they could or should provide a model for African countries.

International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety each year.

This is the first English book on the economic relations between China and Latin America written by Chinese scholars.

This book enables the reader to understand labour markets and shows how to forecast the need for skills in developing countries.

Vor dem Hintergrund steigender Studierenden- und Promoviertenzahlen sind die Beschäftigungsaussichten von Hochschulabsolvent:innen wieder stärker in den Fokus öffentlicher und wissenschaftlicher Diskussionen gerückt.

Documents the rise of a new breed of multinational companies that are reshaping competition in global industries.

Over 350 million people are affected each year by disaster and conflict.

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

The Principles of Islamic Marketing fills a gap in international business literature covering the aspects and values of Islamic business thought.

Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies.

Entdecken Sie Ihr geschäftliches Potenzial in einem der dynamischsten Märkte Südostasiens.

Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

In many countries, business practitioners, policy makers, pundits and laypeople want to know how strong China really is in business.

Although traditional manufacturing (textiles, clothing, footwear, furniture, etc) has been in decline in developed countries, it still represents an important part of European employment due to its labour-intensive character.

This title was first published in 2002: The interrelationship between international trade and the environment has become the subject of much heated debate.

India has been identified as one of the biggest emerging markets in the world.

Warum sollte man sich, angesichts einer Vielzahl von Problemen im deutschen Gesundheitswesen, mit den Fragen des Internationalen Gesundheitsmanagements befassen?