International business

Companies are becoming more global and international, and commerce and information flow seamlessly across national borders.

The author charts an ethical roadmap for successful management in the 21st century.

Rigorously updated textbook that balances business theory and business practice.

This volume presents a collection of cases that examine the status of financial inclusion for women across a variety of states in the African continent.

In 1980 the Indian software industry was practically non-existent.

President Trump has raised the intriguing question of bringing the manufacturing of companies like Apple back from China to the U.

This text considers different economic models available in the global market.

This book identifies the driving forces behind globalization and proposes innovative ways for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) to confront them.

Examines the origins of modern corporate finance systems during the rapid industrialization period leading up to World War I.

This book focuses on Integrated Reporting as a contemporary social and managerial innovation where a number of initiatives, organizations and individuals began to converge in response to the need for a consistent, collaborative and internationally accepted approach to redesign corporate reporting.

Dieses Buch behandelt die völkerrechtliche Immunität von Staaten und ihren Untergliederungen gegen hoheitliche Zwangsmaßnahmen anderer Staaten.

Though Japan has successfully competed with U.

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy.

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment.

Unilever is one of the world's largest suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, home and personal care.

The book outlines the importance of Indian manufacturing sector and its growth under alternative policy regimes.

This book brings together a variety of international, cross-cultural case studies of management education programmes and discusses the results in light of the present higher social expectations on managerial behaviour.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its practical applications.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding the theories and applications in managing the Asian fashion supply chain, presenting both quantitative and exploratory studies.

This book provides a holistic and practical approach to Japanese concepts of lean management throughout the business value chain.

Asian Businesses in a Turbulent Environment explores how Asian firms cope with challenges such as globalization, regional conflict, pressure for greater democracy and environmental protection, and the impact that rising above these challenges will have in their growth prospects.

This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China.

Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker representation.

In 1914 the two largest firms in Russia were subsidiaries of American companies.

The key writings by the authors on the future of the multinational enterprise published over the last thirty years.

This book aims to elucidate the divergent institutional trajectories of lithium policies in Latin America, shedding light on how industrial development of mining activities can emerge in specific extractivist contexts.

This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets.

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

Volume 7 of "e;Advances in Global Leadership"e; includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries.

The Japanese economy has made a remarkable recovery from the so-called 'Lost Decade' of the 1990s.

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

This research examines the opportunities and constraints facing Yugoslav multinationals abroad, and considers in turn the historical, economic and political variables behind the growth of Yugoslav foreign investment.

The term humanisation was introduced in humanistic studies to develop a humanist way of thinking about organisations and human relations.

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

This book presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary indigenization topics in the cultural context of sub-Saharan Africa.

Global competition is being fueled by economic, technological, legal/political, and social changes taking place around the globe.

Covering the major areas arising in anti-dumping investigations as embodied in the relevant WTO provisions.

This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations.

The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored longstanding fissures in China's business relationships with the West.

A roadmap for understanding the business challenges and opportunities in China By 2025, China and India will be two of the world's four largest economies.

This book looks at customer value creation through marketing decisions and analyses the critical phases of theoretical and methodological advancements in solving certain problems and customer-centric issues that firms face.

Managing Human Resources in the Middle East provides the reader with an understanding of the dynamics of HRM in this important region.

This title was first published in 2000: The 1990s have been heralded as the 'age of women' based on the facts that, globally, more women are benefiting from formal education and are in paid employment in greater numbers than ever.

There has been a segmented approach to documenting the impact of COVID-19 and recovery prospects for global tourism destinations.

Written by a non-native English-speaking professional speaker with over 20 years of international consulting experience, this book lays out a step-by-step process to improve cross-cultural communication skills and achieve a strong global presence.

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