Product Description: China's current growth rate is staggering: entry into the WTO, Google’s tribulations with China’s internet policies and the 2008 Beijing Olympics all point to unprecedented levels of interest in the world's largest market. But commercial success for Westerners is dependent on understanding a very different and complex set of cultural and business values, as well as the techniques of structuring a joint venture, negotiation and effective marketing in China...read more

Product Description: This practical guide for overseas investors and visitors to Australia who want to consider setting up a new business operation or investing in business there provides the background to the country's business culture. It also includes a directory listing agencies and selected resources for potential investors...read more

Product Description: A challenging and possibly controversial work, Saving Face, Losing Face, In Your Face will define 'the West', and discuss in some detail how and why people from Europe have influenced the history and culture of almost every country on earth, and explain why the 'Western heart, mind and soul' is so dominant in so many facets of human endeavour...read more

Product Description: Indonesia is one of the most rapidly developing economies in the Asia Pacific region. Increasing numbers of multi-national companies are investing in large-scale development projects throughout Indonesia, and business is booming. Indonesia is also a country of great racial and cultural diversity, often misunderstood by the world at large...read more