International business

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.

Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management.

Understanding a people and their culture through code words and language.

This book overcomes the limitations of existing models of national culture by presenting a novel archetypal methodology that captures heterogeneity within and between nations in a simple manner.

China's economic growth has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world to its second largest economy.

Latin American business schools have grown in scaleand quality in recent decades, yet they have received a relatively low level ofattention globally when compared to schools from other parts of the world.

The aim of this book is to examine and compare the integration process in both Europe and Asia, and to draw some possible lessons for East Asia from the European experience, which culminated with the establishment of the economic and monetary union.

Extoling mindful global leadership and now including cases, this book imparts competent, sustainable business practices for global leaders.

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

This book is the tenth volume in a series titled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

The first critical, interdisciplinary handbook in which leading experts critically debate crucial questions around the corporation.

This book is a must read for aviation managers and all stakeholders that are interested in improving the business performance of airlines.

This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world.

This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives.

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The internationalization of Chinese enterprises is one of the most notable aspects of economic globalization in the 21st century.

Americans tend to believe that their country is very different from Europe.

This title was first published in 2003.

Brains, not brawn.

An examination of the form and character of recent transformations in the international automobile industry.

This book is a political-economic analysis of China's transformation to become a global aviation power.

Information technology has had a major impact on individuals, organizations and society over the past 50 years.

Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account.

The European Connection: Implications of EEC Membership focuses on the impact of British membership on the Commonwealth countries.

The authors explore the degree to which Chinese multinationals have a distinctive 'Chinese' approach to human resource management, in the same way as large Japanese companies are widely regarded as having a special Japanese approach.

In the 1980s, the extent of Japanese export penetration into other Western economies, particularly the USA, became a matter of international concern.

This is a revised and updated version of the celebrated 'Best Book on Chinese Economy'.

In the wake of financial meltdown and environmental disaster, employers increasingly demand that managers have an understanding of ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility and values-based management.

Guanxi, a system of Chinese business relationships, is often described, but is rarely fully understood.

Talent Management in Small and Medium Enterprises contributes to the body of knowledge concerning talent management in small and medium enterprises.

The idea of corporations exercising corporate social responsibility has spread from the West and is now firmly embedded in Asian countries and in Asian corporations.

This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West.

This volume examines the discursive construction of the meanings and lifestyle practices of the middle class in the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the social, political and cultural implications at local and global levels.

Title first published in 2003.

In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century.

This book is based on research into programme management competence conducted by Cranfield School of Management and SP Associates.

Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising by Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer and Liz Mamukwa is the first book in the Integral Green Society and Economy series, a series which has three overarching aims.

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 rapidly changing market environment in China requires more research to understand fully the empirical processes of management practice and the business landscape in which they operate.

Organizing for Resilience provides a fresh and novel insight into research on how leaders can prepare their organizations to face up to shocks and disruptions in a turbulent and unpredictable world.

This book, first published in 1974, presents the findings of a research project and considers their implications for public policy.

What's the most important factor in business today?

Breaking new ground and drawing on contributions from the leading academics in the field, this notable volume focuses specifically on industrial relations.

A highly original book that provides policy solutions for development challenges, framing them with insightful and inventive allegories.

Organizations today are facing unprecedented challenges, including an ageing workforce, potential talent shortages, an increasingly competitive international environment and the need to utilize the talents of the best qualified people, regardless of gender.

This book analyses the development of strategic supply chain modelling and its role in optimisingdecision-making in business, in relation to advances in technology and increased demand due to globalisation.

Design Attitude is a book for those who want to scratch beneath the surface and explore the impact design and designers have in organisations.

Can the free market system continue to operate in a traditional way in a world that is now globally connected, financially dysfunctional, and becoming environmentally damaged by excessive consumption?

This book provides an overview of Hong Kong's role as an international financial centre, focusing especially on how Hong Kong has contributed significantly, and continues to contribute significantly, to China's economic development.