Product Description: International Business: An Asia Pacific Perspective (Second Edition) provides a unique exploration of the topic of international business. It examines decisions relevant to managers in internationalizing and multinational firms operating in the Asia Pacific...read more

Product Description: What does a truly global manager today need to know to lead responsibly? How does he or she develop the core management competencies needed? Globally Responsible Leadership: Managing According to the UN Global Compact uses the UN Global Compact and its Ten Principles as an overarching framework for understanding the issues facing business managers today...read more

Product Description: This short, reader-friendly book is about best practice in joint ventures: the factors and processes which lead to success. Every year, corporations establish thousands of joint ventures (JVs), investing hundreds of billions of dollars...read more

Product Description: This exploration of the topic of international business examines decisions relevant to managers in internationalizing and multinational firms operating in the Asia Pacific. It uses cutting-edge conceptual material to underlie the decision-making frameworks in the text and in the numerous Asian company examples and illustrations...read more

Product Description: Since the 1970s, there have been many changes in the ways in which Japanese firms have conducted business. This volume examines the strategies of Japanese subsidiaries in the new global economy and present a comprehensive picture of Japanese multinational enterprises. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Upper division undergraduate and graduate/MBA courses in international management (although sometimes appropriate for courses entitled International Business or International Strategic Management) offered in four year colleges and universities. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Japanese Multinationals in the Global Economy goes beyond traditional methods of research in international business by providing new simple data comparisons on the global operations of Japanese firms. A key aim of this book is to encourage other researchers to explore a new data source and expand and shape their own studies on multinationals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Three geographically targeted volumes comprised in the Cooperative Strategies series―the most ambitious effort to date to explore the extent, nature, operations, and environment of cross-border cooperative linkages in North American, European, and Asian Pacific regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The three geographically targeted volumes comprised in the Cooperative Strategies series--the most ambitious effort to date to explore the extent, nature, operations, and environment of cross-border cooperative linkages in North American, European, and Asian Pacific regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Three geographically targeted volumes comprised in the Cooperative Strategies series―the most ambitious effort to date to explore the extent, nature, operations, and environment of cross-border cooperative linkages in North American, European, and Asian Pacific regions. The scholars who contributed to The Cooperative Strategies Series include top experts in international strategy and management. Consolidating cutting-edge scholarship and forecasting of future trends, they focus on a wide variety of new cooperative business arrangements and offer the most up-to-date assessment of them. They present the most current research on topics such as: advances in theories of cooperative strategies; the formation of cooperative alliances; the dynamics of partner relationships; and the strategy and performance of cooperative alliances. Blending conceptual insights with empirical analyses, the contributors highlight commonalities and differences across national, cultural, and trade zones. The chapters in this volume are anchored in a wide set of theoretical approaches, conceptual frameworks, and models, illustrating how rich the area of cooperative strategies is for scholarly inquiry. The Cooperative Strategies Series represents an invaluable resource for serious academic study and for business practitioners who wish to improve not only their understanding but also the performances of their joint ventures and alliances. (view table of contents)

Product Description: CASES IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT contains 25 cases that have been taught at undergrad, MBA, and executive levels by some of the best case teachers in the world. Cases are based on in-depth interviews with real managers and have a detail-oriented approach that requires students to make decisions about strategic issues...read more

Product Description: This book examines how joint ventures work in practice. Drawing on extensive personal experience and using case study examples where appropriate the author analyses the various stages, discusses the problems of partner selection, implementation and control and points out the various benefits and pitfalls...read more