Product Description: With stagnated demand in many home economies, the need to internationalize and exploit foreign market opportunities has never been more paramount for businesses to succeed at a global level. However, this process raises a number of questions, such as: can firms use their knowledge of one market in the next? Can firms pursue internationalization on several fronts at the same time? How should firms handle cultural and institutional differences between markets? This textbook provides students with the core research in international business and strategy, including organization, efficiency, external relationships and the challenges found in an increasingly multicultural world...read more

Product Description: Business History and International Business are cognate subjects. There are few, if any, studies of international business that do not require a proper study of context. International business decision making must be made relevant by a considered evaluation of the circumstances surrounding that decision...read more

Product Description: This timely and authoritative collection presents seminal papers from leading academics on the evolving field of globalization and its effects on corporations and enterprises. Professor Buckley has selected key works which define the global factory and cover important research areas including the antecedents of the global factory, the effect of globalization on international networks, offshoring and outsourcing as well as formal theoretical models...read more

Product Description: What is international Business? Is the international business research agenda running out of steam? These and other key questions are answered in this influential book which points to a definitive statement on International Business...read more

Product Description: Strategic Business Alliances examines key issues in the analysis, management and performance of international joint ventures using a sample of UK-European equity joint ventures. The authors consider the viewpoint of all configurations of the international joint venture - UK parent, European parent and joint venture management...read more

Product Description: Mythologies is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats's folklore and early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats's final textual instructions. Its extensive annotation makes luminous Yeats's 'fibrous darkness', that 'matrix out of which everything has come', by comprehensively dealing with oral and written sources, abandoned and unpublished writings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is one of the most influential studies of multinational enterprises ever published. As a book that revolutionised the field, it includes a critical examination of empirical observations about FDI, offers a long-run theory and other alternative theories of the multinational enterprise, as well as looking at the world's largest firms and offering predictions and policy implications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mergers and acquisitions have become the most dramatic demonstration of vision and strategy in the corporate world. With one single move you can change the course of your company, the careers of your managers and create value for your shareholders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This collection of key works examines operations of large firms in the global economy. It explores areas of international strategy such as knowledge management, international transfer pricing, international joint ventures and alliances and issues of cross-border governance. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book examines the relationship between multinational firms and emerging markets, a relationship which has changed profoundly in the period from the 1950's to the late 1990's. Governments and multinational firms have moved from a situation of conflict to one where government policies were seen as a constraint on the activities of MNE's, and finally to an era of cooperation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This collection of readings is concerned with international business, with specific reference to the multinational firm, foreign direct investment, globalization and international strategic thought. (view table of contents)

Focusing on four key areas in international strategic management, this volume closely examines the areas of HQ-subsidiary relationships, international marketing strategy, international strategic alliances and international manufacturing and technology strategy. Within this essential framework new insights are presented by key academics in the field in areas such as investment decision-making, uncertainty avoidance and buyer-supplier partnerships. Representing a broad panorama of contemporary thought, this volume is a must for anyone interested in current developments in international strategic management.

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