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  • Developing Strategies for International Business Developing Strategies for International Business
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    Developing Strategies for International Business

    Reliance on opportunism is a high-risk strategy in global business, yet many companies operate this way, often acting on limited amounts of information. Equally, many other companies implement strategies based on models formulated in the teaching rooms...
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  • The Business of Sustainability The Business of Sustainability
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    The Business of Sustainability

    Most academics and certainly most sustainability managers agree that research on the 'business case' for sustainability has been very inconclusive. In fact many have simply decided that the business case for sustainability is elusive. This book goes...
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  • Alliances and Co-Evolution Alliances and Co-Evolution
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    Alliances and Co-Evolution

    Alliances and Co-Evolution provides alliance managers, consultants and academics with a detailed analysis covering 23 years of the growth and decline of three lifecycles of alliances. This analysis links structural change in the European...
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  • Emergent Globalization Emergent Globalization
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    Emergent Globalization

    The world and humanity are changing at an unprecedented rate. This book explores the processess that underlie this changing but coherent canvas. What is fuelling them? What is driving them? Can we control them? Mankind has always found ways to order life...
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  • The Green Multiplier The Green Multiplier
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    The Green Multiplier

    What contribution can industry make to environmental protection? One corporate function has so far remained outside academic limelight, namely purchasing and supply chain management. This book seeks to redress the balance by putting forward a theory that...
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  • Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century
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    Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century

    Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and a declining welfare state, multi-generation or 'beanpole families' are a potential resource for family...
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  • Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage
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    Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage

    This book provides the first summary and critical appraisal of the thinking that currently informs the management of business relationships, from the perspectives of both the buyer and supplier. The authors argue that these approaches are one-dimensional...
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  • Partnership and the High Performance Workplace Partnership and the High Performance Workplace
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    Partnership and the High Performance Workplace

    The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance workplace has become central to policy debates on the 'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by way...
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  • Global Management, Local Labour Global Management, Local Labour
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    Global Management, Local Labour

    Little discussion about 'globalization' has concerned one of the truly global forces - the management of multi-national and large domestic corporations - and the significance of modern management practices for workers in the developing world. This book...
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  • Singular and Different Singular and Different
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    Singular and Different

    The West cannot afford to ignore China. Not only is China one of the few markets in the world that is still showing healthy signs of growth, but Chinese companies are increasingly coming out into the wider world and competing with Western firms on their...
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  • Organising Knowledge Organising Knowledge
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    Organising Knowledge

    The organization, processing and representation of knowledge becomes increasingly important in all scientific and business contexts. This book focuses on qualitative methods for knowledge organization and their contributions to knowledge-based issues of...
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  • Understanding Consumer Choice Understanding Consumer Choice
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    Understanding Consumer Choice

    Understanding Consumer Choice shows how attempts to relate consumers' attitudes and actions have implicitly incorporated measures of the very variables at the heart of a situational theory of consumer choice. These are the buyer's consumption history and...
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  • Third World Multinationals Third World Multinationals
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    Third World Multinationals

    This book evaluates the contribution of third world multinational enterprises to the competitiveness of their home and host countries in the context of Brazilian and Chilean MNE's. Third world MNE's can be important agents of growth, a fact that until...
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  • Korean Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Europe Korean Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Europe
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    Korean Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

    This book examines Foreign Direct Investment of major Korean automotive companies in Europe, with particular reference to how economic integration has affected the motivations and patterns of FDI and industrial location. The book is a valuable source of...
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  • The Challenge of International Business The Challenge of International Business
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    The Challenge of International Business

    This book focuses on the study of International business and more specifically 'Is the international business research agenda running out of steam?' After laying down this challenge, Buckley presents three theoretical developments, which point to ways...
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  • Euro on Trial Euro on Trial
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    Euro on Trial

    Euro on Trial looks back - to the aspirations of the founders - and forward - to the possibility of reform or splitting up. After five years of experience with the new currency, new insights are possible into the old arguments for and against union...
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  • The Multinational Subsidiary The Multinational Subsidiary
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    The Multinational Subsidiary

    This book highlights the evolution of the thinking on the multinational subsidiary over a quarter of a century, from the early concerns about the 'branch plant syndrome' to very current topics relating to the Multinational Enterprise as a differentiated...
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  • Culture and Positioning as Determinants of Strategy Culture and Positioning as Determinants of Strategy
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    Culture and Positioning as Determinants of Strategy

    Strategic positioning is the assertion of an organizations personality on decisions of how and where to compete, it determines competitive position in the market place and differentiates the offering to the market. Operational positioning is an exercise...
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  • Japan and East Asia in Transition Japan and East Asia in Transition
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    Japan and East Asia in Transition

    This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its commitments to import relief, regional financial and industrial transformations, and regionalism. While the Japanese government has...
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  • Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing
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    Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing

    Japanese retailing has long been regarded as traditional or even backwards, when in reality it has constantly demonstrated its innovativeness and dynamism. This book highlights these developments by looking at: innovations and underlying driving forces;...
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  • Internationalization Internationalization
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    Internationalization

    This is the 10th volume of The Academy of International Business book series bringing together the latest research on firm strategies and management and the internationalization of the firm from the 29th Academy of International Business UK conference...
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  • Technology Intelligence Technology Intelligence
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    Technology Intelligence

    Technology intelligence is one of the latest management tools that enable companies to be successful in today's rapidly changing technological environment. This book gives an in-depth insight into how a Technology Intelligence system can be designed for...
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  • The Indian Software Industry The Indian Software Industry
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    The Indian Software Industry

    The Indian software industry has rapidly grown over the past decade, most of this growth has been derived from exports to the US market. This book deals with business models, particularly as the way that the software model in India has evolved is unique...
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  • Corruption and governance in Asia Corruption and governance in Asia
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    Corruption and governance in Asia

    This book delves into the nature of governance in Asia both at government and corporate level. It reviews the history and suggests potential solutions for years of underperformance due to the corrupt practices that have developed because of a poor...
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  • Living Labour Living Labour
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    Living Labour

    This book is an important and original account of life in the new lean production workplace - the car industry where it all began. It brings together the two emblematic features of the twentieth century: a working class meant to topple the social order,...
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  • China's Economic Powerhouse China's Economic Powerhouse
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    China's Economic Powerhouse

    The Guangdong province is the forerunner of China's economic reform, it has developed rapidly in the last twenty years since opening up its economy to the outside world. This book covers the evolution of economic reform in Guangdong, its links to Hong...
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  • Stockholding in Europe Stockholding in Europe
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    Stockholding in Europe

    The past decade has been a time of drastic developments, both in financial markets and in related academic research. Among the most striking developments are the expanded stockholder base, the increased popularity of mutual funds among households, and...
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  • Asia and Europe in the New Global System Asia and Europe in the New Global System
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    Asia and Europe in the New Global System

    This book examines the need for co-operation between Europe and Asia, particularly in view of China's accession to the WTO. It looks at the cultural implications for closer cooperation between the two parts of the world, exploring corporate culture and...
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  • Outsourcing Insourcing and IT for Enterprise Management Outsourcing Insourcing and IT for Enterprise Management
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    Outsourcing Insourcing and IT for Enterprise Management

    Many firms are now developing policies for outsourcing IT and other basic functions, this book analyses this issue from the perspective of both the outsourcer and the insourcer. Chorafas describes management needs and shows how technology can be used to...
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  • Managing Boundaries in Organizations Managing Boundaries in Organizations
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    Managing Boundaries in Organizations

    Drawing together an international group of scholars, this book provides fresh and provocative perspectives on boundaries in organizations. The emergence, management and transformation of organizational boundaries is intrinsic to modern organization and...
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  • Images of Competitive Space Images of Competitive Space
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    Images of Competitive Space

    Based on a study of residential estate agents, comprising one of the most sophisticated datasets ever gathered in the field of managerial and organizational cognition to date, this book provides strong supporting evidence for a number of key theoretical...
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  • The Future of Mobile Communications The Future of Mobile Communications
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    The Future of Mobile Communications

    Mobile communications are about to enter the third stage in their development, widely known as 3G. This will bring always-on internet access to mobile devices. This book investigates the history of mobile communications and explores the technological...
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  • China's Transition to a Global Economy China's Transition to a Global Economy
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    China's Transition to a Global Economy

    How has China approached the global economy? Webber, Wang and Zhu attempt to answer this question through analysis of the concepts of globalization, transition and regionalization. China's approach has been experimental, stressing the liberalization of...
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  • Change Management in Transition Economies Change Management in Transition Economies
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    Change Management in Transition Economies

    This book investigates the concepts and instruments for managing change in companies striving towards a market orientation in transition economies. The focus is on the identification of factors, which have led to the considerable success of certain...
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  • Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean
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    Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean

    This book takes a unique approach to analysing foreign capital flows. Using the neighbourhood model, it analyzes foreign capital inflows from the perspective of both the source and destination countries. Focusing on China, India and the Caribbean, it...
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  • Labour Market Planning Revisited Labour Market Planning Revisited
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    Labour Market Planning Revisited

    This book enables the reader to understand labour markets and shows how to forecast the need for skills in developing countries. The forecasting of these skills has recently fallen into disrepute with the notion that all forecasting techniques that...
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  • The Knowledge Economy in India The Knowledge Economy in India
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    The Knowledge Economy in India

    India has realised, later than many other nations, that in order to prosper in the new world economy it will need to successfully manage its knowledge assets. This book investigates the rise of entrepreneurship and knowledge management. It looks at the...
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  • Transition Strategies Transition Strategies
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    Transition Strategies

    The transition process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which started more than a decade ago, has been the focus of much attention for both practitioners and scholars. Few studies however, address management issues involved in the...
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  • Cultural Influences on IT Use Cultural Influences on IT Use
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    Cultural Influences on IT Use

    This book highlights the role that national culture plays in shaping the emergent relationship between IT and organisations. It also shows the mechanisms through which national culture influences IT use. Although a number of studies have investigated...
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  • Managing FDI for Development in Resource-Rich States Managing FDI for Development in Resource-Rich States
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    Managing FDI for Development in Resource-Rich States

    This book is a timely study in light of the resurgence of resource nationalism that is currently occurring in several resource-rich, developing countries. It moves away from the traditional explanations for the disappointing economic performance of...
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