International business

Alongside burgeoning global business, which asserts its legality, ethics and social responsibility, there exists a dark side of shadow trades manifesting various shades of legitimacy.

Based on data from Japan, the book examines the combined effect of product, geographic, and network diversity on multinational enterprise performance.

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors'' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

This book presents recent developments in the theory and management of networks (such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise chains) and platforms.

Focusing on the formation of the Korean economic system, this book presents a fascinating and comprehensive analysis of economic development outside of the traditional neo-classical, developmental-state and dependency perspectives.

The third edition of Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street is an updated guide to practicing global public relations and strategic communication, preparing professionals to craft and implement international and intercultural communications campaigns.

International Finance presents the corporate uses of international financial markets to upper undergraduate and graduate students of business finance and financial economics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its practical applications.

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlights the most exciting recent scholarly developments.

This book empowers you to immediately grasp the opportunities that present themselves in international commercial negotiation, and to be able to create and maintain positive, mutually beneficial relationships with other parties that are long lasting and productive.

This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis.

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This fourth revised edition sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods and through national, regional and local dimensions.

Corporate Strategies for South East Asia After the Crisis presents an in-depth analysis by experts from Europe, Japan and South East Asia who have long-standing research experience in Asian economies and international business.

What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings?

Parietti addresses one of the most important topic scrutinized by the scholars of International Business.

This Element presents the facts, arguments and scenarios around public debt from a global perspective.

This book explores the meaning and practice of empowering methodologies in organisational and social research.

Managing in developing countries is the focus of this book which is based on the premise that managers make things happen and, therefore, it is important to select them properly.

This book aims to theoretically and empirically enrich the GVC accounting framework with statistical physics and complex network theory from the perspective of econophysics, thus adding up to the existing theories.

In einer Welt, die ständig nach neuen Märkten und Wachstumsmöglichkeiten sucht, bieten die Philippinen eine einzigartige Gelegenheit für dynamische Unternehmungen.

Some of the key questions in employment relations, comparative business, and globalization revolve around the extent to which businesses embody a national business system, and what happens when these employment models are exported to other national settings.

Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand contemporary processes of international migration.

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 two-part volume, the first of its kind, examines current pedagogical modules and research directions in public relations and communication management, identifying emerging issues driving the practice in Africa.

Enhancing Board Effectiveness seeks to examine the conceptualization and role of the board in a variety of contexts and articulate solutions for improving the effectiveness of the board, especially in developing and emerging markets.

This book assesses the changes that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) could produce by boosting the competitiveness of firms in India and Korea.

This book deals with the importance of ambidexterity in innovation activities and global strategies.

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

Leadership and organisational structures which are not adjusted to the cultural background of the employees concerned are most likely to produce sub-optimal results (House, 2004).

This book explains how and why financial bubbles and crashes occur.

The way organizations manage entrepreneurship has changed dramatically over the past decade.

Under the Reagan presidency, the United States saw a period of strong economic growth.

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world.

The Asia-Pacific region, sustaining more than four decades of rapid growth, has emerged as an economic force comparable in significance to Europe and North America.

This book presents an in-depth understanding of the transformation of modern economy in the twenty-first century by examining the interface and interplay of three key forces of contemporary global economy-Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), and Global Value Chains (GVCs)-and how the emerging nexus of these forces has already ushered in revolutionary transformation in global production, investment, trade, and employment in recent decades.

Now in its ninth edition, The Cultural Dimension of Global Business continues to provide an essential foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business and global business on culture.

Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book focuses on understanding the international behaviours of SMEs, entrepreneurial ventures, and entrepreneurs.

In response to the increasing interest in the growth and developments in the Indian economy, and the dynamic nature of the rapidly changing Indian business environment, this textbook is designed to provide a comprehensive guide to doing business in the Indian context.

In an era where global business in continuously buffeted by unprecedented challenges and transformations, this timely volume presents a critical examination of the dynamics reshaping the landscape of international business.

We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization.

This book outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, analysing how varying degrees of development across its countries affects entrepreneurship.

International business (IB) research on Asian firms is on the rise, challenging conventional theories and providing opportunities for IB researchers to address several paradoxical issues such as ownership advantage and risk-returns.

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This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century.

The Palestinian Executive is based on field research in the West Bank and Gaza, which involved interviewing 110 executives from 63 publicly and family-owned companies.

The book explores how the influence by the corporate sector in the economic interactions globally leads to the international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes.