This book offers models, ideas and processes for personal transformation, educational transformation and organizational transformation in times of global crises.
This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students.
Since the beginning of China's economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkable contribution to, the country's economic development.
Considering behavioral norms in their cultural contexts, this book arrives at a fully operational international leadership theory - and makes it accessible to academic and professional readers alike.
Intellectual Capital refers to one of the most important sources of business advantage - the knowledge within the organisation of how to create value for customers.
In recent years, luxury goods markets have faced significant changes that have influenced both the dynamics of the competition, as well as their strategies.
There are, in simple terms, three principal kinds of capital that come necessarily into play when a society is evolving towards improving the lives, livelihoods, and qualities of life of its people.
To fill in the gap in theoretical and empirical aspects in the existing international management literature, the book covers a broad variety of issues relating to the challenges facing companies after the recent worldwide crises of financial, sanitary, and geopolitical nature.
Set against the backdrop of a rising population in Africa and the lowering opportunities for white collar jobs, as well as the continent's limited access to resources, this edited collection demystifies the interconnectedness between the factors and actors involved with innovation and entrepreneurship development in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) informal economy for more effective, result-oriented outcomes.
Business and Education in the Middle East brings together academic and business expertise in order to come up with long-term strategies that will have a great effect on the university performance and governance.
This text explores international business economics from a European perspective, dealing not only within business in Europe but with the external trading relationships of the EU and the position of European firms in a globalized economy.
This book examines the experiences of the globalizing Korean automobile industry, with particular focus on the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), one of the most prominent of the new Korean multinational corporations.
This book provides a critical analysis of merger control regimes in the former socialist countries with small market economies, looking at the unique challenges facing these economies.
It examines the context in which multi-national companies operate and how the key players interact with each other and with the external business environment.
A "e;foreign direct investment"e; is defined as an investment in which a resident or a firm in one country has long-term influence and control over at least 10% of the ordinary shares or voting powers of an incorporated firm, or equivalent for an unincorporated firm in another country.
Huawei Goes Global provides a much-needed, comprehensive, and scholarly examination of the business environment and the striving global operations of China's technology giant.
Corporations have continued to grow and extend their operations into the global economy to the point that the modern corporation has become larger and more influential than many sovereign countries.
The last Asian financial crisis, coupled with the western series of corporate scandals, has caused investors and citizens to doubt mangers ability to guarantee credible financial information about organizations.
This book provides practical frameworks for anyone hoping to become a successful global leader, and outlines the challenges that international firms face when managing across cultures.
This edited volume strives to support leaders in successfully leading their teams, projects and organizations across borders in an increasingly boundaryless world.
With considerable turmoil in international trade and logistics it is more important than ever to understand trade and customs issues and their impact on logistics operations.
This book is a timely study in light of the resurgence of resource nationalism that is currently occurring in several resource-rich, developing countries.
Understanding new strategic approaches is provided by examining how the online world is being exploited by organisations in sectors of a modern economy such retailing, healthcare and the public sector in terms of creating new forms of competitive advantage as a consequence of the advent of mobile technology and online social networks.
This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations (public corporations, supported primarily with public funding from a state-run banking agency) in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the interests of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector.
There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localised solutions to socio-economic problems in dealing with poverty alleviation and societal development.
Assembling Health Care Organizations combines an institutional theory perspective with a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.
