International Business

Business History and International Business are cognate subjects. There are few, if any, studies of international business that do not require a pr...

The recent financial and economic crisis has spurred a lot of interest among scholars and public audience. Strangely enough, the impact of the cris...

This book develops a new framework - the stakeholder model - that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the...

Efforts to use existing trade agreements to build a larger regional agreement face many challenges. This book considers this problem with reference...

First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organis...

Contemporary business-to-business (B2B) industries consist of networks of customers, competitors and other stakeholders. Firms which manage their r...

This book provides an analysis of the development of the Chinese securities market, with special reference to the information disclosure regimes in...

The most important issue for development centres on the debate about the centrality of knowledge, technology and innovation to the process of econo...

The history of policymaking has been dominated by two rival assumptions about markets. Those who have advocated Keynesian-type policies have genera...

Corporate governance is an area of key importance for students of comparative management and international business. This is particularly relevant ...

The spillover effect of multinational companies has, historically, been subject to much debate. The assumption that the host country can be expecte...

This book examines the vital nature of the subject of leadership in Asia and looks, in particular, at the processes and practices within the Asia P...

China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of ‘reform and opening up’ put into place since the late 1970s. China’s...

This book discusses important issues related to managing supply chain disruption risks from various perspectives. It explores the essence and princ...

China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of ‘reform and opening up’ put into place since the late 1970s. China’s...

First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organis...

The second edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully updated with a synopsis of the latest changes in the fields of intercultural communi...

Although the world's poorest inhabited continent, Africa has recently shown signs of being a source of economic growth in the coming decades, with ...

This book considers the question of the impact of multinationals on Sweden. Based on extensive original research the book examines the benefits and...

Developing countries in East Asia recorded remarkable economic growth until the Asian financial crisis erupted in mid-1997. Although several countr...

In this book leading contributors look at the development of the evolutionary approach to international business, the internationalization of servi...

The extent to which organisational performance is related to the Human Resource policies and practices adopted has been a question debated by both ...