International business

This book uncovers the current knowledge on entrepreneurial cultures and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems between Asia and Europe.

Providing in-depth analysis, this book enables readers to understand the theoretical aspects of personal selling and explores the difficulties of selling services which are sensitive to cultural, age and gender differences, and to customers originating from diverse cultural zones.

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This book provides a systematic view of current and future research perspectives on intercultural knowledge sharing and offers a model for the growth of organizational knowledge in the digital age.

Despite being the third largest economy in Southeast Asia, Malaysian entrepreneurial activity is under-reported in the scholarly literature.

This edited volume explores the influence of role modelling as a process in the workplace; in particular, whether it can aid career development, offer psycho-social support, and provide the motivation and means to achieve goals.

African nations are seeking ways to build strong institutions that are development-oriented and people-centred.

Pricing of export credit is a challenge in the globalised world trade.

This book explores the relationship between the Panama Canal and the evolution of the global economy.

This book highlights the development of retail marketing in developing economies and presents this sector as a major area of growth and business opportunity.

The authors of this important book analyse the pitfalls and risks of doing business in ASEAN countries that are mostly absent in Western markets, covering various strategic, external, operational, and legal-cultural challenges for international companies.

This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies.

In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles.

This book presents an alternative, critical perspective on the political economy of development and business.

This book explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted businesses of all types around the world.

This book analyses and evaluates the accomplishments, challenges, and approaches associated with the New Public Management (NPM) in Africa towards establishing context-specific interventions for public sector institutions' performance.

The book brings together an international panel of experts on economic integration and international business to address the essential link between the two fields, namely the impact of integration processes on the business environment.

China's economy has been transforming rapidly over the last 25 years.

This book investigates the relevance of Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a theory of motivation, whilst taking into account variances in culture and individual experiences and perspectives.

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter)Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International BusinessReflecting the aim of the 43rd AIB-UKI Conference on re-invigorating the still faltering global economy, this new book brings together fresh and interdisciplinary perspectives on avenues for further advancing the growth of international enterprises and the global economy.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book explores the implications of talent management in four practical settings across the globe.

This book explores the influence of the modes of knowledge transfer and environmental dynamism on the relationship between strategic actions and the sustainable balanced scorecard measurement of performance.

This edited collection brings into focus the meanings, interpretations and the process of value creation in international business.

This book discusses the application of different machine learning techniques to the sub-concepts of smart cities such as smart energy, transportation, waste management, health, infrastructure, etc.

This monograph presents various approaches to understanding the multiple levels, layers, and definitions of culture, cross-cultural research, cross-cultural competence, the role of culture in organizations, organizational culture, and the role of multiple culture layers in individual workers' workplace attitudes, performance, and general experiences.

The book focuses on the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of Korea and the strong influence these have on women leaders in the nation.

The situation for career counselors today is particularly complex.

One of the most pressing issues in current and future human resource management is the inclusion of strengths and life stages within human resource structures.

This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital technology changes the African society.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics, and Supply Chains, ILS 2016, held in Bordeaux, France, in June 2016.

This book explores how culture and tradition have impacted the tendency for African women to opt for entrepreneurship.

This book, adopting a multidisciplinary approach, investigates the definition of autonomous work and the kind of protection it receives and should receive in a global perspective.

The phrase "e;greening of the workplace"e; refers to the range of resources used by an organization to ensure its management and industrial processes are conducive to the adoption of workplace pro-environmental behaviors by its employees, irrespective of their position, the nature of their work or their rank within the organization.

The Academy of International Business (UK and Ireland Chapter)Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.

This book offers an insight into the complications higher education is currently facing in the Arab world.

This book reveals a variety of issues facing entrepreneurs, SMEs, and entrepreneurship development across South America.

Investigating how international market actors create market morality on a global level, this book reflects on the unresolved questions and debates regarding the relationship between business and society.

This book addresses contemporary and modern topics around business growth and economic development in Southeastern Europe.

This book bridges two essential aspects of assessing and achieving business excellence in 21st-century organizations.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the second conference held by the Russian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, in December 2019.

Addressing the wide-ranging challenges of global entrepreneurship and innovation faced by both East and West, this edited volume provides a multi-faceted overview of the complexity facing entrepreneurial firms within global value chains.

This book highlights the key issues, opportunities and challenges facing African firms, industries, cities and nations in their quest to compete successfully in the global economy.

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

This book focuses on understanding the international behaviours of SMEs, entrepreneurial ventures, and entrepreneurs.

This book analyzes the emerging concepts and theories of inclusiveness in business by explaining corporate social responsibility, social learning, and value co-creation, as critical elements to the success of firms.

Internationalization is an essential component of the business model for luxury fashion companies.

This book considers what is at stake for professionals whose work increasingly involves communicating in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts, and argues for the need to better understand the crucial role of languages and cultures in the modern workplace.

Providing a critical insight into the growth of the secondhand luxury and vintage fashion industry, this book offers a compendium of business developments from across the globe, including examples from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work.