International business

In the 1990s Brazil launched a comprehensive economic liberalization program.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University publicationWith the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the policies affecting access to, and conditions of competition in, service markets are today firmly rooted in the multilateral trading system.

Global competition is being fueled by economic, technological, legal/political, and social changes taking place around the globe.

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

This book uses the concepts of both cultural and psychic distance to analyse managers' perceptions in international business settings, with a specific focus on European and Chinese ventures in the green technology industry.

Trade unions have historically been involved in education and training in the workplace.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of indigenous entrepreneurship and its challenges while addressing ways to make businesses more inclusive and sustainable in the long term.

This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes.

This book tells the story of fashion workers engaged in the labor of design and the material making of New York fashion.

Large and medium sized retailers have increased their international operations substantially over the last 25 years.

This book, first published in 1936, addresses the need for a comprehensive study of the development of international control in the field of certain vital commodities and services.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe.

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "e;developmental state"e; is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour - a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development - this book argues that in fact the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over the interests of labour.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

The changing character of the economies in Eastern and Western Europe are leading more people to start their own businesses.

This book is a compilation of transferable insights relevant to the dynamics of the current Asian business sector.

The Second Try: Labor and the EEC presents the constant interaction between external and domestic foreign policy and economic factors.

Ob man zu Hause arbeitet oder im Ausland, Geschäftserfolg in unserer immer mehr globalisierten und virtuellen Welt erfordert die Fähigkeit, durch kulturelle Unterschiede zu navigieren und fremde Kulturen zu entschlüsseln.

Increasing disruption, diminishing returns, and demanding customers require business leaders to create more value, remain relevant, and stay ahead of competition.

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

Business Strategy is becoming increasingly 'pluralist', drawing on the insights of different disciplines, and business practice in different parts of the world.

Get ready to experience the Rules effect.

This book explores the unique socioeconomic challenges encountered by female leaders in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries where traditional cultural expectations and modernized values coexist.

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk.

Entrepreneurship depends on the decisions that people make about how to undertake that process; however, in recent years, entrepreneurship research has focused largely on the environmental characteristics influencing firm founding and the characteristics of entrepreneurial opportunities, ignoring the role of human agency.

Explore and understand the principles of international businesses from theory to practice.

Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors.

This book analyzes the current economic situations in African countries at the local, regional, and national level.

This book provides readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China.

Managers today are faced with numerous complex challenges speckled with paradoxes.

Decoupling of business models and ecosystems is the disconnection of certain characteristic activities originally planned and completed in coincidence.

The proceedings of the "e;Economics and Business Competitiveness International Conference"e; (EBCICON) provides a selection of papers, either research results or literature reviews, on business transformation in the digital era.

This book explores the development in Japan throughout the twentieth century of marketing and consumerism.

In the wake of globalization, international management has gained importance as a decisive element behind the success of a business enterprise, however little is known about the collective strategies between two foreign firms in an overseas market.

The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations.

This book considers the importance of organizing knowledge processes to overcome geographical, time zone and cultural challenges found in global work.

Latin America today presents a dynamic but challenging business landscape.

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional interdependence through cross-border economic activity.

The third edition of this core textbook, edited and contributed to by recognised international authorities on the subject, outlines the critical contextual and theoretical issues of business and management in Asia and offers a fresh, topical analysis of management in the major Asian nations.

The papers in this volume demonstrate that it can be fruitful to apply institutional theory to business history.

Drawing on fresh data, this book investigates why talented individuals migrate and how they shape innovation around the world.

Key Concepts in International Business is one of a range of comprehensive glossaries with entries arranged alphabetically for easy reference.

Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in the global art market; the proliferation of international art fairs, biennials and blockbuster exhibitions; and the internationalization of the scope of contemporary art.

The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences.

This book presents a critical understanding of Indian business situated as an encounter between indigeneity and Western modernity by exploring notions and practices of responsibility.

The advantages of airline competition to consumers are clearly apparent.

As business becomes increasingly globalized and China establishes its growing role in the international business environment, developing an understanding of the complex culture is important to anyone acting in the global arena.