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Author
Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As domestic business becomes increasingly reliant on succeeding in export markets, the need for specialist knowledge in international trade is crucial. With thorough explanations of the current business environment, brand new case studies, and packed with links to free online resources, the second edition of The 30 Day MBA in International Business covers international marketing strategy, managing international organizations, selecting global strategic...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shoes of Prey launched in 2009. It allowed people to design their dream shoes online, get them expertly manufactured, and have them shipped to anywhere in the world within two weeks. The startup broke even at two months, hit multi-million dollar revenues in under two years, raised tens of millions in funding from top-tier investors and shipped to more than 100 countries. All the metrics pointed to huge scalability. To a huge business. To a huge success....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Controlling Interest" offered the first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy. This is the film that helped kick-off the anti-globalization movement. Upon its release, Controlling Interest quickly became a standard "audio-visual text" for those concerned about the growing impact of multinational corporations on global affairs. The film examines...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to expat ang moh-- caucasian-- husbands, with Chanel babies (half-white children--the ultimate status symbol) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and cheerfully brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a woman who plays to win. As she fervently pursues her quest to find the...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past two decades, an unprecedented burst of entrepreneurialism has transformed China's economy from a closed, impoverished, state-run system into a major power in global business. As products in China become more and more sophisticated, and as its companies embrace domestically developed technology, we will increasingly see Chinese goods setting global standards. Meanwhile, companies in the rest of the world wonder how they can access the...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"Reveals the distinctive business practices of Chinese business leaders, whose emerging juggernauts?including Alibaba, Lenovo and Haiers--are establishing themselves as growing commercial presences worldwide and explains what Western companies need to know and can do to stay competitive, "--NoveList.
Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee...
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hitherto, the organization of international business has been studied mostly from a managerial point of view or by examining the relationship between firms and the economy. Yet, the development of the modern, multinational firm - the most important type of business organisation - has been strongly influenced by the conflicts that bedeviled the twentieth century. The volatile macroeconomic and political environments experienced by international business...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets...
34) Field of battle
Author
Series
Semiotext(e) intervention volume 27
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Field of Battle presents the world today as nothing less than a war in progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the developing geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime--as well as the alegal state that works alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against it--hold sway. The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise of the "a-state." This war scenario...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures. Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has...
Author
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollins publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt. Having lived and worked in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold explains the secrets that Westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where he left off in the international bestseller Mr. China, Chinese Rules chronicles his most recent exploits, with assorted Chinese bureaucrats,...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms--Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America--to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit economy. Drawing on...
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