International business

With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today.

This book focuses on the core theoretical concept of "e;Ma thinking"e; - an idea that serves as springboard for the thoughts and actions of distinguished practitioners, innovators, and researchers.

Sustainable Industrialization in Africa explores the issues that confront development policy in the context of the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda from an African perspective.

This book discusses the challenges facing business schools and management education systems around the world.

This book discusses the new challenges facing Business Schools around the world with potential scenarios that may be envisioned for 2030 and strategies for stakeholders.

This edited collection explores how digitalization is changing the management of innovation, and the subsequent implications for the next phases in its development.

This book provides state-of-the art research on expatriate management from a European perspective.

This insightful book examines human resource management practice and its perceived impact on performance in the non-profit sector.

Mainland China businesses are going global, transforming the country from a manufacturing export platform into an overseas investment powerhouse.

This book identifies the driving forces behind globalization and proposes innovative ways for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) to confront them.

This book brings together current research on stigma, stigma management, and stigma theory as applied to business and management at the micro, meso, and macro levels.

Exploring the interaction between entrepreneurs and managers, this book attempts to understand the psychology behind how they think, behave and interact in order to benefit organizations.

The international community is confronted with a new set of challenges, the scale and complexity of which is virtually unprecedented.

Africa suffers from two main diseases: poor management and a lack of vibrant entrepreneurial activity.

This book is about engaging and empowering people through their own domestic resources, by using upstream energy to create larger downstream employment opportunities.

Africans Investing in Africa explores intra-African trade and investment by showing how, where and why Africans invest across Africa; to identify the economic, political and social experiences that hinder or stimulate investment; and to highlight examples of pan-African investors.

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.

To help to promote a greater conversation between those interested in the theoretical explanation of IB activities from various different backgrounds or starting points, this book offers a special Collection of JIBS articles which concern the foundations and the application of the eclectic paradigm.

This volume fills a gap in the international business literature, offering the perspectives of researchers who are deeply embedded in one key emerging market, India.

International Management and Intercultural Communication consists of cases of direct observation and personal involvement in a wide variety of communication challenges in international management settings, and discusses them in terms of management theories.

This book takes a holistic approach to explore how business is being conducted in China and India, and to analyze the factors that influence business decisions in present times.

Unveiling Women's Leadership provides a penetrating insight into the world of Indian woman leaders.

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

This important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management.

The purpose of this ground-breaking book is to inspire the principle of innovation as a permeating program for Europe's societies.

Human Centered Management in Executive Education provides a comprehensive insight on innovation in Executive Education with a unique global scope.

In the changing geography of innovation, multinational corporations play a key role as creators of knowledge.

Socially Responsible Outsourcing is an edited collection that focus on the topic of socially responsible outsourcing (SRO) including research frameworks, rich case studies, and an SRO agenda for the future.

Containing the most influential papers from the International Symposium on Logistics, Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management demonstrates the evolution in logistics and supply chain management since the 1990s.

This book presents a framework for a different type of profitable growth for multinational companies in emerging markets: "e;scaling the tail.

Through key research papers from Palgrave's Journal of Operational Research, this book showcases how Operational Research can be applied to sports in a variety of ways, including: timetabling fixtures; scheduling officials; forecasting outcomes; optimizing tactics and strategy; analyzing the effects of rules and laws; planning issues, and performance measurement.

Competitive Supply Chains uniquely focuses on European and Asian companies, which have found innovative ways of orchestrating effective systems.

New Urban Management discusses how the logic of economic flows poses a challenge to local governments throughout the world.

Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership introduces a new leadership model which takes into account the history, culture and economic environment of African women leaders to understand, discover, observe and share their personal leadership experiences.

This book analyzes the emerging concept of diversity intelligence, which values the differences in employees without attempting to make everyone alike.

This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success.

Post-Materialist Business presents a spiritual-based approach to business and management.

Sustainable Growth in Global Markets provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of market and business management outside the domestic market.

Most of the established theories of economics, particularly of international trade, became obsolete in the new world trade and production architecture.

Structural Revolution in International Business Architecture Volume 2 fills important gaps in the existing literature of management science by providing new and improved methods of optimal control system modeling.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

China's love for luxury is not a phenomenon brought on by the contemporary luxury market, but has been a part of Chinese culture and history for generations.

The first volume in the Palgrave Studies in Practice: Global Fashion Brand Management series, this book provides a comprehensive view on the internationalization of fashion brands, offering unique academic and managerial insights into how fashion brands in diverse sizes can build and sustain their businesses in competitive global marketplaces.

This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations.

Over the past two decades international entrepreneurship has become a key issue in international business studies.

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

Corporate Governance Practices in India examines corporate governance practice in Indian industry.

The research papers and cases in The Changing Dynamics of International Business in Africa provide multi-disciplinary insights on the opportunities and challenges of doing business in Africa, as well as on the changing competitive dynamics in the region, as Western, BRIC and African multinationals intensify their fight for market dominance.

This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development.

A comprehensive reference book providing the tactics, strategies, and methodology for establishing a manufacturing plant in China.