International business

The new edition of this influential and bestselling book is concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose.

Experiences of Emerging Economy Firms investigates the different elements of the experiences of emerging economy firms and sheds essential light on a large variety of aspects associated with their functioning in both home and host contexts.

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.

Due to automation, nearly half of the jobs will vanish over the next two decades in the US.

As of 2020 South Korea has 14 firms listed on the global Fortune 500, including Samsung, Hyundai, SK, POSCO and LG.

This book focuses on the planning, marketing, and management of Asian tourism destinations, and evaluates current developments within Southeast-Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

Mayank Kumar Golpelwar analyses why Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) units and their young employees found themselves to be the target of severe criticism from India's middle classes.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions.

Eine auf das Wesentliche konzentrierte Darstellung der Management-Lehre, die Studenten und Hochschullehrer ebenso wie Führungskräfte anspricht.

As conflict and cooperation among states turn to an ever greater extent on economic issues, this fully updated and expanded second edition presents a comprehensive exploration of the legal foundations of the international economy.

This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production - a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.

This title was first published in 2000: This book examines critically the theory and practice of Human Resource Management.

Innovation in information and production technologies is creating benefits and disruption, profoundly altering how firms and markets perform.

This book critically analyses how home institutional elements influence the design and development of Chinese firms' capabilities at home, and questions if and how these capabilities are applicable in a different business environment.

This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change.

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being gender-specific, shaped the US-headquartered Singer Sewing Machine Company's operations around the world.

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises.

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world?

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

This book explains not only why the world isn''t flat but also the patterns that govern cross-border interactions.

Specialist manufacturers have existed in Japan from even before the start of industrialization in the late nineteenth century.

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Environmental certification is an effective tool for managing the environmental impact of companies, leveraging their competitive capabilities and ensuring their compliance with environmental principles.

A textbook with innovative real-world macroeconomic analyses of timely policy issues, with case studies and examples from more than fifty countries.

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of today's capitalist corporations and the alternatives?

The financial markets of Hong Kong have a reputation for volatility, but careful analysis of past behaviour reveals consistent trends and coherent actions.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book provides an analysis of the luxury industry in two of the world's biggest and evolving markets, and identifies and discusses the key issues and dynamics in transforming their luxury landscapes.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 installment of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF), which is held annually in Singapore.

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

The book examines the social processes which have shaped the development and organisation of various marketing practices and activities, and the markets associated with them.

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known.

For boards and executives, high-quality and transparent information is critical to allow effective decision-making.

Wireless is the hottest technology and media sector in the world today-and Asia is at the centre of the action.

This book documents the recent post-pandemic era business innovation research in Vietnam bringing together selected works from the 2022 'International Conference on Business Innovation: Business Innovation in a Post-pandemic World' held at RMIT University in Vietnam.

Suggests important ramifications for both Western and Eastern Human Resources Practices and is the first research of its kind to empirically investigate the effect of Chinese core values, which originated from Chinese traditional thinking, on HRM practices in China.

This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As).

In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization.

This title was first published in 2003.

This innovative book portrays the state-of-the-art of coopetition strategy regarded as a compelling mindset to exploit entirely the potential of actors' interdependencies (firms, governments, suppliers, customers, scientists and partners) in today's global scenarios.

This volume explores how the idea of 'culture' is used and exploited by transnational managers to further their own ambitions and their companies' strategies for expansion.

In seinem Buch zeigt Günter Pilarsky, ein global aktiver Insider und einer der wenigen großen deutschen Minenbetreiber, worum es bei dem Thema Rohstoffsicherung wirklich geht, wie erfolgversprechende Vorgehensweisen aussehen und welche Forderungen an Politik, Interessenverbände und die gesamte Gesellschaft zu stellen sind.

A critical look at the challenges facing international policy cooperation in the new postcrisis environment.

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

The extent of mental illness concerns in the workforce is becoming increasingly apparent.

China's top education thought leader provides a thorough examination of the state of China's education system-what's working, what's not, and what's to be doneObservations on the Education of China is a guide to the current status of education and educational thought in China, based on the author's visits to nearly 100 schools in more than 20 provinces throughout the country.

Global Shift is - quite simply - the definitive work on economic globalization.

Few nations have internationalized their business operations as successfully as the Swedes.