International Business : Theory and Practice

Intro -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- PART I SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION PART I -- CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to International Business and Multinational Corporations -- CURRENT SCOPE AND HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS -- RECENT TRENDS IN WORLD TRADE -- THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 2 The Nature of International Business -- DOMESTIC VERSUS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS -- METHODS OF GOING INTERNATIONAL -- RECENT TRADE PATTERNS AND CHANGES IN GLOBAL TRADE -- GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND INCENTIVES -- REGIONAL TRADE GROUPS AND CARTELS -- NONTARIFF BARRIERS TO MERCHANDISE TRADE -- SUMMARY -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- PART II INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND ECONOMIC THEORIES -- CHAPTER 3 Theories of Trade and Economic Development -- INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORIES -- MORE RECENT THEORIES -- MODERN THEORIES -- THEORIES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- THE GLOBAL CONTINUUM: WHERE NATIONS FALL TODAY -- PATTERNS OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT -- SUMMARY -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 4 International Monetary System and the Balance of Payments -- INTERNATIONAL MONETARY TERMINOLOGY -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM -- THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND -- FORMS OF IMF ASSISTANCE -- IMF CONDITIONALITY -- SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS -- DIFFICULTIES IN THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM -- THE FLOATING-RATE ERA: 1973 TO THE PRESENT -- EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM -- DIFFICULTIES IN THE FLOATING-RATE ERA -- ISSUES FOR REFORM -- SUMMARY -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- APPENDIX 4.1 BALANCE OF PAYMENTS -- PRELIMINARY DEFINITIONS -- PROBLEMS IN BOP -- CHAPTER 5 Foreign Exchange Markets -- BACKGROUND -- THE STRUCTURE OF THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS -- LOCATION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS -- MARKET VOLUMES -- USES OF THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET.