Drawing on candid accounts from practitioners, producers and industry representatives, this informative and proactive volume investigates the challenges facing today's fair trade movement and provides unique insights into the workings of social and economic power in world markets

1. An institutional perspective on entrepreneurship in international business -- 2. Transnational entrepreneurship in two contrasting Asian contexts : Hong Kong and Singapore -- 3. City-states and their global reach : outward investments from Hong Kong and Singapore -- 4. Entrepreneurs in...

This book comprises eighteen cutting edge chapters by emerging scholars in international strategy, offering a variety of fresh perspectives on critical issues that the field will face in the near future. These young scholars have unique and innovative thoughts about international strategy, which...

How do business leaders think as a result of their national culture? This book provides a discussion and comparative analysis of five major cultures-- American, Arab, Chinese, Japanese and Scandinavian--and how they reveal themselves in business practice

The contributors to this volume explore the emerging patterns of SME growth and international expansion in response to the evolving competitive environment, dynamics of competitive behavior, entrepreneurial processes and formulation of strategy

Universities are undergoing massive change, evolving from science-based, government-funded institutions into 'international know-how hubs' dubbed third generation universities, or 3GUs. J.G. Wissema explores this dramatic change, tracing the historic development of universities, and exploring...