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Beer, Lawrence A.
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658.049 23
Publication Date
2012
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The purpose and/or promotional promise of almost all textbooks concerning the global environment of commerce is to help the reader understand and appreciate the economic, political, and technological context in which international business operates. This defined approach is tantamount to placing three wheels on a car and expecting it to drive smoothly. It cannot be operated without the balance that a fourth one provides, and that required wheel is culture. In the modern era of globalization, managers venturing forth to engage alien societies must be armed with cross-cultural skill sets lest they travel on feet of clay. Most academic texts and encased individual chapters targeting business students are awash with a confusing maze of intersecting theoretical-based value determinants to define and characterize cultural differences. On the other side of the culture subject are multitudes of guidebooks for executives led by the popular series Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands highlighting disparities as one does business in countless singular societies around the world. Both approaches center on memorizing collections of applied principles and/or factual orientations. A more concise, simple, and practical approach is required that cuts through the complicated cultural matrix.
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Parker, Barbara, 1947-
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658.049 22
Publication Date
2005
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Through creative use of examples, case studies and exercises from organizations worldwide, this book demonstrates the many levels at which globalization impacts on contemporary businesses, society and organizations and elucidates the ways in which different globalization trends and factors interrelate. Each chapter: opens with a short and current case which introduces the key concepts covered in that chapter; provides an overview of chapter objectives to allow the student to navigate easily; illustrates the chapter concepts with useful boxed examples; concludes with a review of the key chapter.
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DeSombre, Elizabeth R.
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343.0965 22
Publication Date
2006
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Examines the relationship between globalization and environmental, safety, and labor standards in the context of the shipping industry and explores the extent to which international competition affects regulatory standards.
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Fraser-Moleketi, Geraldine.
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351 22
Publication Date
2005
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Containing six essays, this volume looks thematically at different elements or facets of Global Governance and the issues that arise. It deals with some regional perspectives on Global Governance. It aims to raise our eyes beyond the known world in public administration and also looks at the unit of analysis.
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Peck, Jamie.
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338.91 21
Publication Date
2003
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Remaking the Global Economy offers a state-of-the-art survey of geographical perspectives on the restructuring and reorganization of the global economy. With contributions from leading figures in the globalization debate, the book explores the latest thinking and research, as well as the enduring controversies, across a range of interrelated issues, including: - firm strategies and business knowledge - interactions between firms and nation states - production and innovation systems - transnationalism and labour markets - state restructuring Each of the specially commissioned chapters presents.
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Brown, Karen, 1964-
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338.176 22
Publication Date
2010
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During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine brings together case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through th.
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