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Product Description: Corruption has a corrosive impact on international business. Fighting Corruption lays out the problems and offers practical solutions on how to attack commercial dishonesty at its source. In the third edition of this highly acclaimed volume, ICC experts offer solutions to combat this scourge of global trade and investment...read more
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9789041131843 | Kluwer Law Intl, July 22, 2009, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Corruption has a corrosive impact on international business.
From its niineteenth-century origins, to its rise to success via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food and its links to the U.S. government, an account of the rise and fall of United Fruit Company shows how the corporation blazed the trail of global capitalism while documenting its devastating impact on Central America's 'banana republics.'
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9781841958811, titled "Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World" | Canongate Books Ltd, January 21, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: From its niineteenth-century origins, to its rise to success via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food and its links to the U.
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9781847671943, titled "Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World" | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, July 8, 2009), cover price $14.00
Product Description: Greed, cupidity, corruption, and a kind of gluttony so outrageous that it's laughable have always been part of business.Consider, for example, the case of the Swedish match king. At one time, Ivar Kreuger, manufactured almost half of the world's matches, with monopolies in 16 countries...read more
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9781603200097, titled "Scandal!: Amazing Tales of Scandals that Shocked the World and Shaped Modern Business" | Time Inc Home Entertainment, May 5, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Greed, cupidity, corruption, and a kind of gluttony so outrageous that it's laughable have always been part of business.
Product Description: It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and sometimes threatening, dilemmas that can involve political and personal agendas...read more
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9780754671374 | Gower Pub Co, December 15, 2008, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar.
Shows how the example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of multinational companies. This book tells the tale of big business, lies and power to show how United Fruit pioneered the growth of globalization and - in doing so - has helped farm the banana to the point of extinction.
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9781847670984 | Canongate Books Ltd, January 24, 2008, cover price $15.20 | About this edition: Shows how the example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of multinational companies.
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9781576753958 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, February 28, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Building on John Perkin's controversial exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, an analysis of the world of economic hit men explores various aspects of its global system, discussing the inner workings of institutions behind economic manipulations and the subversion of specific nations.
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9781572708358 | Abridged edition (Audio Partners, February 28, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An examination of the corrupt practices behind global economics, including how resource-rich countries are being stripped of their assets, how the IMF and World Bank really function, and how cycles of debt and dependency are created and perpetuated.
Contends that corrupt big businesses and governments have nullified and surpassed organized crime through a gradual shifting of rules that have served to dangerously legitimize and broaden proto-criminal behavior, explaining how multinational corporations within the global economy are providing the world's most significant opportunities for illegal profit. Original.
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9780786716715 | Basic Books, October 13, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Contends that corrupt big businesses and governments have nullified and surpassed organized crime through a gradual shifting of rules that have served to dangerously legitimize and broaden proto-criminal behavior, explaining how multinational corporations within the global economy are providing the world's most significant opportunities for illegal profit.
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9781592285778 | Lyons Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A dramatic and compelling journey into the dark heart of globalization.
Product Description: The terrorist outrages of September 11, 2001 and the rapid collapse of Enron both highlight the uncomfortable fact that businesses and business people are subject to risks much broader and often more personally hazardous than the commerical and financial risks studied at business school...read more
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9780749438173 | Kogan Page Ltd, July 1, 2002, cover price $39.95
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9780749440312, titled "Risky Business: Corruption, Fraud, Terrorism and Other Threats to Global Business" | Revised edition (Kogan Page Ltd, July 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The terrorist outrages of September 11, 2001 and the rapid collapse of Enron both highlight the uncomfortable fact that businesses and business people are subject to risks much broader and often more personally hazardous than the commerical and financial risks studied at business school.
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