International business

Now in its fifth edition, this hallmark text provides a comprehensive, article-by-article guide to the workings of the CMR Convention, as incorporated into English Law by the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965.

The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised commercial banks, and its first modern regulatory agency: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

This book bridges the gap between the accounting and the actuarial sides of Indian life insurance companies, by exploring the relationships between the embedded value calculated by actuaries and the revenue account and balance sheet prepared by the accountants.

This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis.

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

With the economic crisis continuing into the 1980s, the necessity to adapt industrial structures to contemporary requirements became clear.

This collection of field studies offers novel insights into the issues of migration and integration of immigrants.

In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective.

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

The typical view of Korean women is not as managers.

The emergence of start-up companies and new forms of entrepreneurship has become a significant challenge for entrepreneurs and decision-makers who shape the businesses and economies of the future.

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.

This book gives an in-depth research on digital business environment as well as its indicators analysis by means of collecting huge data and cases in China.

Globalization and unlimited connectedness to all places in the world give us the impression that our world is growing smaller and smaller.

In this gripping narrative, Carlo Bastasin reconstructs the main political decisions of the euro crisis, unveiling the hidden interests and the secret diplomacy behind the scene.

For the very first time, this book offers a complete overview the topic and its foundations of international entrepreneurship.

In the twenty-first century, as traditional divides are redefined, bargaining over corporate responsibilities has increasingly centred around corporate reputation and the question of whether businesses are part of society's problems or part of their solution.

Historically, the study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting has largely been within the context of Western economies.

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

This book is a curated compilation of research articles exploring compelling issues associated with accounting and auditing in China.

This volume takes stock of the latest international business research on the relationship between European multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their policy environment.

This book aims to start a debate on the relationship between economic theory - and more precisely business cycle theory - and economic policy, emphasising the diversity of views on economic policy which characterised older periods, in contrast to the homogeneity of the analysis and diagnosis provided by current business cycles developments.

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution.

Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers.

Japanese distribution was long seen as archaic and difficult to understand, but today that has changed.

This new edition of Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management is a classic edited textbook, taking account of recent developments in the international human resources management (IHRM) field, such as the pandemic, the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as climate change.

2012 will bring another global economic crisis.

Winner of the Canadian National Business Book Award 2016Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the US smartphone market.

The "e;"e;quality of life"e;"e; concept of quality of life is a broad one.

Borders in Service traces the intersection of service labour and national identity across global call centres in seven countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mauritius, Morocco, the Philippines, and the US-Mexico border.

Drawing on a series of case studies from Finland, this book examines the role of networking in the internationalisation process of family firms.

Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems provides in-depth coverage of data-enabled methods for analyzing intelligent transportation systems that includes detailed coverage of the tools needed to implement these methods using big data analytics and other computing techniques.

This book will sharpen the core decision-making skills of budding managers and entrepreneurs through the concepts, logic, and principles of microeconomics used in the book with suitable examples and cases from multiple industries from across the world.

Together with efforts to control the arms race, commercial issues were a central feature of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Over the last two decades, Japanese firms have challenged U.

The book begins with a historical perspective of recorded trade.

This book examines the global corporate strategy of Japanese multi-national enterprises (MNEs) and analyses their position in today's business environment.

Age Discrimination looks at how both young and old can be penalised by prejudice against their age group.

Offers a psychology based model that features seven key determinants of success or failure for innovation and entrepreneurial endeavours.

The revolutionary study of how the place where wegrew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act--with new dimensions and perspectivesBased on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span,Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart when cooperationis so clearly in everyone s interest.

This book adopts a case study based research approach to examine the contemporary issues in the fashion industry.

As the 1990s progressed, China began to emerge as an economic giant.

This book presents an overview of political economic change in Vietnam during a period of significant social and economic change and an era of international turbulence.

This book documents and explains how strategic human resource management (SHRM) and high performance work systems (HPWS) have been adopted among indigenous enterprises, namely state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and domestic private enterprises (DPEs) in China, from both management and employee perspectives.

Leading the Global Workforce provides a handy guide for international organizations that must achieve results in managing and sustaining a global workforce.

This book provides and sheds light on insights, challenges, and opportunities to support the development and economic growth of the fashion industries within emerging markets.