Multinationals

Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays.

Focusing on anti-corruption as a corporate social responsibility issue, Adefolake O.

The Multinational Corporation in China: Controlling Interests addresses the question of how multinational corporations control and coordinate their worldwide affiliates, with a fascinating inside story on contemporary China.

The late Honourable Michael Wilson was a Canadian politician and business professional.

Praise for Directory of Global Professional Accounting and Business Certifications "e;In a globalized world, employers are confronted by a bewildering variety of professional qualifications, some valid, some less weighty and some spurious and fraudulent.

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.

Poor access to care in low- and middle-income countries due to high costs, geographic barriers, and a shortage of trained medical staff has motivated many organizations to rethink their model of health service delivery.

Learn how large corporations can make real improvements in their standard business practices without jeopardizing their competitiveness in the global marketplace.

Despite the current crisis, Asian economies remain an important market for firms around the world and continue to be stiff competitors in world business.

The Brand-Driven CEO demonstrates how senior leadership can use their brand to align and guide the behaviors, decisions, and operations of their entire organization in order to drive value.

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "e;outrage response"e; often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory.

Learn and develop essential skills around core global marketing strategies.

This book offers the latest analytical thinking on emerging market multinationals (EMNCs) and identifies key issues for research by scholars and consultants.

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As a consequence of aggressive competition, Chinese industries have become increasingly consolidated.

This comprehensive analysis discusses how American and non-American multinational corporations (MNCs) can plan, manage, and control their business activities and invest in four selected Middle East countries: Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabaia-and as a special unique feature, a fifth country, Israel.

Firms in the clothing industry engage in global sourcing and operate in global markets.

Drawing on the experiences of six expatriate leaders who, collectively, had more than 78 years of experience managing United States Agency for International Development (USAID) international development projects in 26 countries around the world, this book provides a scholarly analysis of their stories, identifies factors expatriate leaders experienced managing projects, then integrates the factors into a theory that explains and helps define the success, or lack thereof, they achieved, and provides recommendations on how to deal with and overcome the issues.

A 2011 analysis of the rise of Brazilian multinationals, examining their competencies and competitive strategies in a variety of different settings.

Learn and develop essential skills around core global marketing strategies.

A considerable amount has been written concerning the meaning of income for taxation purposes.

First published in 1970, Silent Surrender helped educate a generation of students about Canadian political economy.

A rigorous analysis of how the innovative practices of emerging multinationals from the BRIC countries are transforming global competition.

Documents the rise of a new breed of multinational companies that are reshaping competition in global industries.

This 2005 book paints a compelling picture of the way multinational corporations affect our lives.

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "e;outrage response"e; often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory.

China is the largest emerging market in the world, yet Western MNCs have invested significantly less there than their Asian MNC counterparts.

Explores what the CSR movement means for multinationals, for states and for international law.

Readable, wide-ranging history of multinational enterprise, exploring its role in international events and influence on globalization and the modern world.

A defining feature of Japan's emergence as a global economic superpower has been Japanese firms' establishment of thousands of affiliate operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Labor Rights and Multinational Production explores the relationship between workers'' rights and economic globalization in developing countries.

Volume 39 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management contains eight original scholarly monographs written by thought leaders in the field of human resources management.

Leadership is a quality that is difficult to define.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the foundations, applications and new directions of politics perspectives in MNCs.

An analysis of the development of Latin American multinational companies, based on a wide range of statistical data.

The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century.

Transnational corporations are one of the most important actors in the global economy, occupying a more powerful position than ever before.

Modern multinational corporate groups of incredible complexity conducting world enterprises through numerous subsidiaries have rendered traditional corporation law archaic.

This collection explores the expansion of Japanese multinational firms into Asia, a process which paralleled the region's growth as a major economic region.

Drawing on the experiences of six expatriate leaders who, collectively, had more than 78 years of experience managing United States Agency for International Development (USAID) international development projects in 26 countries around the world, this book provides a scholarly analysis of their stories, identifies factors expatriate leaders experienced managing projects, then integrates the factors into a theory that explains and helps define the success, or lack thereof, they achieved, and provides recommendations on how to deal with and overcome the issues.

The twin forces of ideological change and the technology revolution make globalization the single most important issue facing executives today.

In today's world of interconnected and "e;always-on"e; information, companies that succeed are those that compete by leveraging strategic control points.

For multinational corporations (MNCs), there is arguably no more important operational function that affects all areas of manufacturing, marketing, management, and finance as international transfer pricing-the practicing of supplying products or services across borders from one part of the organization to another.

The Financing of Foreign Direct Investment examines the communication gap between business leaders and international economists when it comes to financing the overseas operations of domestic firms.

A distinguished group of international business scholars explore how firms internationalize in today''s global economy.

The organizational design of the Multinational Corporation (MNC) was a vibrant area of research in the field of International Business and Management during the 1970-1990's.

Business Across Cultures is the keystone book in the Culture for Business series.

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