International Business

The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history pers...

Much of your company’s success in global trade will be determined by how well you manage contracts and agreements for sale or purchase. Mastering t...

Cultural understanding is indispensable for people who live and work abroad or in multicultural settings, but few have appropriate knowledge and tr...

This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China’s workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the aut...

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study th...

This classic work, first published in 1958, is a seminal text in international business history. This new, substantially updated and revised editio...

This title, first published in 1993, was one of the first books to analyse the forces behind the increasing globalization of professional business ...

The Japanese presence in Southeast Asia is treated variously with either suspicion or encouragement. Japan and Malaysian Development critically ass...

What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This volume explores how specific industries have organize...

The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the fi...

Provides a comprehensive analysis of cynicism in the workforce and tells how to identify and successfully combat it in organizations. Offers case s...

The phenomenal growth of Chinese economic and military power in the first decade of the 21st century has drawn world-wide attention. Perceptions of...

A wide-ranging examination of the New World Order

The term "sheng nu" ("leftover women") has been recently coined in China to describe the increasing number of women, especially highly educated pro...

What has made Silicon Valley so productive of new technologies and new firms? How did its pioneering achievements begin—in computer networking, sem...

"By assembling the highly focused works of more than two dozen businessmen, lawyers, accountants, investment bankers, consultants, and experts in s...

Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John De...

Unleash one of your company's greatest competitive weapons. "Ram Charan is a wise counselor and keen observer on the front lines of the American b...

Much has been written about the rise of the Asian economies in recent decades, and their coming economic dominance in the next century. The New Asi...

A wide-ranging examination of the New World Order

Cultural and regional differences in creating and managing advertising require unique responses to a dynamic, rapidly globalising business environm...

This book provides an overview of current approaches and research in the field of international organizations with a focus on implementation issues...

Sage Advice on Going Global Root's perspective is extremely insightful, and clearly the work of one who knows his topics from personal experience....

Emerging market economies have long been a significant driver of global growth, and since the beginning of the new millennium they have gained grea...

Essential reading for IP managers and corporate executives, Innovate or Perish is a new road map equipping readers with the principles and tools ne...

The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour through the theoretical foundations of spatial locations of firms and industries in an evoluti...

How has cultural diversity affected the business climate of the growing European Union? What are European institutions and enterprises doing to man...

Examines the different types of border disputes by going beyond the traditional questions of 'titles of territory' and issues of the location of th...

Originally published in 1985 this book looks at the way in which some businesses in high technology manufacturing industry have organised their str...

Written by a non-native English-speaking professional speaker with over 20 years of international consulting experience, this book lays out a step-...

Business Groups and the Thailand Economy examines the role of business groups, specifically state, local, and foreign capitals in the economic deve...

The Economies of European Union Small Member and Candidate States deals with the small states and candidate states of the EU, with a focus on their...

Due to automation, nearly half of the jobs will vanish over the next two decades in the US. However, the problem is not confined to any particular ...

This book, first published in 1980, uses a body of original documentary sources (some 5000 district grain price reports) to quantify, in the form o...

Responsible Management in Theory and Practice in Muslim Societies delineates principles of responsible management from an Islamic perspective, expl...

Since 1975 the leaders of the major western economies have gathered in annual summit meetings to try to agree a unified response to the main politi...

Developing countries have for many decades waged a campaign for the global regulation of trade in primary products through international commodity ...

Social capital is broadly conceptualised as consisting of resources and network ties embedded in the social structures and relationships that facil...

Africa’s unique and diverse culture, embedded in age-long business practices, presents an interesting proposition for advancing indigenous knowledg...

Andrew Stewart (1791-1872) advocated protectionist policies for nearly two decades in the House of Representatives, gaining national renown as Chai...

This volume explores the dynamic nature of emerging markets, which constitute a major share of global GDP, with a focus on the opportunities for gr...

The domain of international entrepreneurship has continued to gain momentum in an era that sees entrepreneurship and globalization as critical issu...