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.
China's continuous, rapid economic growth since the Reform and Opening up of the country in the early 1980s has been praised as a miracle of the world economy.
Patricia Illingworth's short, powerful and passionate book argues that "e;social capital"e; should be an essential ethical concept guiding our actions, and explains how one might go about implementing this idea in a positive way.
This book outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, analysing how varying degrees of development across its countries affects entrepreneurship.
This book provides a systematic examination of the relationship between industrial clusters and poverty, which is analyzed using a multidimensional framework.
The phenomenal rise of India in the global economy has been attributed to a whole host of factors, the major ones being the focus on economic reforms and the demographic dividend that India currently enjoys due to its demographic transition.
Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions.
Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class ('the peasantry') to be pitted against the state or corporation.
Whilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South.
Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges they will face in today's interconnected, global economy.
This book provides the first comprehensive academic study of what China's trade with, and investment in, African countries mean for the socio-economic well-being of the continent.
More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.
In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.
The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically.
This book explores the problems of fiscal policy as an instrument of economic and social development in the modern environment, primarily focusing on the transition economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia.
Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist.
Research for the developing world can generate evidence on the effectiveness of foreign aid, invent new technologies that serve poor people, and strengthen research capabilities in poor countries.
Wei Manske-Wang analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Urbanisierung im Rahmen der Stadtentwicklung und der zentralisierten Energieversorgungsstruktur in chinesischen Megastädten anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung, die auf Daten der vergangenen 35 Jahre zurückgreift.
This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries.