International business

Research in this book focuses on the strategic behaviour of the State as a shareholder in businesses, and the implications it has for the other shareholder(s) and business performance.

This book presents various perspectives on innovative work behaviour, focusing on problem recognition, idea generation, idea promotion and the realisation of these ideas.

Human resource management systems differ across corporations around the world.

International marketing is a core disciplinary area within the broader international business field.

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.

Emerging economies are expected to be in the driver's seat of the global economy in the medium and long term.

This book addresses the profound changes brought by digital technologies.

Everyone thinks they know everything about training.

This book examines key issues in international digital marketing in China from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

This book examines the rise of Chinese companies in international markets during the last two decades of rapid expansion of the Chinese economy.

The need to manage risk is increasingly featured in legislation and regulations.

Strategic management is a field that has diversity in approach and scope, but relative homogeneity in pedagogy.

This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging.

Value chain trade has challenged economic implications of conventional trade statistics and transformed bilateral trade relationships into multilaterals.

Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms focuses on newborn firms, analyzing the determinants of entry, survival and post-entry performance.

Asia is a continent of contradictions and boundaries; it offers exciting business opportunities, but is also characterized by unpredictability and conflict.

Compiled by leading international trade law practitioners and academics from across the globe, this volume provides legal and business communities with information, knowledge and an understanding of recent developments in international trade, business and international commercial arbitration.

The EU and the US are the preeminent examples of multi-level polities and both have highly developed competition policies.

The unprecedented shifts in the U.

Owing to the convergence of multiple cultures coupled with the unprecedented rapid development in the decades since the late 1990s, the value creation and innovation logic of Asia-Pacific business models (BMs) has been constantly altered by cultural heterogeneity.

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.

In this era of constant change and globalization, political and international issues influence the business environment worldwide and penetrate our lifestyle and expectations in ways beyond most imaginations.

For courses in international business.

This book develops a new framework - the stakeholder model - that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the sources of people's happiness have shifted from monetary to non-monetary factors.

Ayios looks at the Western experience of doing business in Russia, and how trust between business partners from East and West is created or destroyed within the business relationship.

The tropics is an area of enormous opportunity and potential.

This volume presents essays that take a historical look at aspects of the finance-growth nexus.

Government health, safety, and environmental standards have, in the past two decades, often created barriers to international trade.

If the West wishes to understand China better, it needs to appreciate the depth of thought and range of debate that is taking place within the Chinese political system.

Finance is key to every business organisation as well as outside.

This book describes how a deeper knowledge and understanding of cultural differences represents a meaningful and useful tool for management of companies, and in particular SMEs, in the People's Republic of China.

This book focuses on foreign firms' nonmarket strategies and lobbying in Japan, in which important readjustments in traditional power configuration have taken place, giving more leeway to various stakeholders.

Technology plays a critical role in transforming societies and economies through enhancing efficiency, connectivity and access to resources and services.

This book engages with Foucault's theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China.

In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of culture and its managerial consequences and taking into account the diversity and multiple identities apparent in cross-cultural management.

This contributed volume serves as an authoritative reference and guide for anyone looking to study or build a brand in Africa.

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.

Over the past decade India has been undertaking a programme of economic reform, and at the same time the economy has been growing at a high rate.

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

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

The widespread move towards more market-driven models of political economy combined with the expanding internationalisation of business and commerce has led to a series of proposals for global competition rules.

The details of international business are growing more complex by the day-and even the most seasoned professionals can find themselves in need of guidance.

The book provides an understanding of how international trade and capital flows have engineered the development process in East Asia, and examines the real and potential challenges that the region is expect to encounter in the twenty-first century.

The Chinese electricity sector is the largest in the world, covering well over 20% of the world's electricity supply.

Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water.

Established as the standard reference for a worldwide readership of students, scholars and practitioners in international agencies, governments, companies and unions, this text offers a systematic overview of international employment relations.