International business

Drawing upon research and practitioner narratives from management, leadership, organizational studies, entrepreneurship and sustainable business domains, this book explores the many pathways that enable emerging countries to transform knowledge into action to achieve economic and sustainable development.

With current socio-economic development trends and changing work landscapes, modern workplaces are progressively becoming a subject of flexibilisation and hybridisation.

In this engaging, insightful, and inspiring narrative, Hermann Simon, the world-renowned management thinker, consultant, pricing expert, entrepreneur, and leading authority on the "e;hidden champions"e; business model, highlights the influences on his remarkable journey from humble origins on a German farm to advising and sharing the stage with global leaders in industry, academia, and politics.

Since the process of liberalization and opening of markets in the 1990s, the emerging markets have created a thriving culture of entrepreneurship, creativity and global collaboration.

This book offers research geared toward understanding culture and its influence on the success of global businesses.

Innovation is a source of building long-term sustainability.

This volume offers fresh insights into economic development and growth in emerging economies.

This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration.

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.

This book presents an empirical investigation of the efforts that multinational pharmaceutical companies take in order to find a business model that allows for a profitable access to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets.

This book examines the major business communication theories, delving into their relationships and practical applications.

This book investigates trust in seven different cultural contexts, exploring how societal culture can influence our expectations regarding what may be considered trustworthy within a cultural context.

This book focuses on leadership as a visual discourse and explores the construction of this discourse within the context of Bedouin Arabia, and the Middle East more broadly.

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Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society.

This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care.

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.

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This book covers cross-border strategies to understand and profit from intellectual property.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of issues in trade law and EU pharmaceutical law concerning market access for traditional Chinese medicinal products.

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.

This book presents selected theoretical and empirical papers from the 26th and 27th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conferences, held in Prague, Czech Republic, and Bali, Indonesia.

This book systematically defines and analyses the rise of China's innovation system and Chinese corporate governance model.

This book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market.

Trends in cleaner business decisions have resulted in sustainable business models involving society, stakeholders, and consumers.

This book presents insights from cutting-edge international business and management research relating to Africa.

Despite recent high GDP growth rates, Vietnam remains a developing country in need of developing human resources (HR) of both genders.

Unlike other economies, family businesses in China are greatly affected by the derived Confucian culture, excessive marketization, as well as the seemingly endless institutional supervision by a transitional Chinese government.

Unlike other economies, family businesses in China are greatly affected by the derived Confucian culture, excessive marketization, as well as the seemingly endless institutional supervision by a transitional Chinese government.

What does luxury value mean?

This book presents new approaches to logistics solutions in global environments, with a special focus on collaborative logistics and intermodality.

This book assesses Chinese acquisitions in developed countries, evaluates the drivers and opportunities and, above all, explores the major operational challenges.

This book presents various perspectives on innovative work behaviour, focusing on problem recognition, idea generation, idea promotion and the realisation of these ideas.

This Palgrave Pivot provides an introduction to the economy and business environment of Vietnam, a member of the ASEAN Economic Community whose economy is rapidly growing.

This book discusses supply chain issues and models with examples from actual case studies.

This book gathers selected theoretical and empirical papers from the 28th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Coventry, United Kingdom.

This book explores the effective management of HR functions in an African context.

This book explores the idea of the 'Entrepreneurial University' within the institutional environment that focuses on the production, dissemination, and exploitation of knowledge.

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.

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.

This book introduces blockchain technology applications in supply chains.

Adopting a critical realist position, this book renders transaction cost economics (TCE) into a behavioral theory of organizational decision-making by foregrounding psychological processes and introducing and integrating with effectuation theory.

This book explores the ongoing transition of China's economy by examining how its healthcare industry is growing and changing.

This book focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems.

SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors.

This book presents a wide range of tools and techniques used in entrepreneurial finance in emerging markets.

This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War.

This book examines India-China relations throughout history as well as in the context of current business cooperation and competition.

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.

Spurred by global macro-economic shifts, commercial and financial turbulence, as well as technological leaps in the early years of the new millennium, the Danish shipping industry has changed dramatically since the turn of the century.