Product Description: This book presents an international treatment of corporate governance, supported by relevant regulation and case studies. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of business, management, finance, accountancy and law.

Product Description: In the wake of the recent financial crisis that has created enormous regulatory risks, changes in the content of banking regulation are crucial. In this book, policy makers and advisors from central banks across Africa discuss this topical subject, focussing on how to enhance bank competition and intermediation efficiency in the region...read more

Product Description: Explores the impact of country and firm specific factors, the role of institutions and governments, the strive for compensation of initial disadvantages and the struggle in finding ways to counterbalance late coming into the international arena in the process of internationalization...read more

Product Description: Exploring the nature, configuration and influence of global elites, this book examines the impact of elites on transnational policy development and strategically on corporations as board members of PLCs and international joint ventures...read more

Product Description: Provides the theoretical framework on how to manage crises in organizations. The author connects crisis management theories with practical examples from Chinese companies andhow they contribute to better crisis management not only in Chinese organizations, but also in organizations from other countries...read more

Product Description: This book brings together non western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. Leadership theory has for too long been the exclusive domain of western academics developing leadership theories from the perspective of western institutions...read more

Product Description: A global, contemporary and critical view of human resource management. Using international examples and case studies, this text covers the basic principles of HRM, whilst exposing students to real world issues facing managers on a daily basis...read more

Product Description: This book provides inside information about working outside traditional business environments. It presents nine rules that will serve leaders well no matter where they're stationed in the world. As readers will discover, the rules have emerged from the work of the authors with leading companies in foreign countries...read more

Product Description: Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and using the case of the automotive industry as a starting point this volume discusses how industrial companies can remain competitive in spite of the current economic downturn.

The twenty-first century is replete with uncertainty and complexity: game-changing events and trends are transforming the world beyond recognition. For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in the countryside and greater numbers suffer from obesity than from hunger. Emerging economies now represent half of the global economy and during the next few decades India will be the biggest country in terms of population, China the largest in output and the United States the richest among the major economies on a per capita income basis. Food and water shortages will likely become humankind's most important challenge. In this accessible introduction, Mauro Guillén and Emilio Ontiveros deploy the tools of economics, sociology and political science to provide an analytical perspective on both the problems and opportunities facing business in the modern world.

Product Description: This volume in the Routledge Global Human Resource Management Series is dedicated to analyzing the process of trust development between managers and subordinates in different countries of the main cultures of the world. Behaviors and trust are linked in a process that can reinforce or diminish the trust between the two parties...read more

Product Description: Motion is manifest in the atmosphere in an almost infinite variety of ways. In Dynamics in Atmospheric Physics, Dr. Richard Lindzen describes the nature of motion in the atmosphere, develops fluid dynamics relevant to the atmosphere, and explores the role of motion in determining the climate and atmospheric composition...read more