The dramatic increase in global trade confronts service firms with the challenge of adapting their services to the varying requirements of customers in different cultures. Jan H. Schumann focuses on three relationship marketing issues that are of relevance for both academics and practitioners:...

Fiktion oder Realität? Die Global AG im Jahr 2015 -- So war es bisher -- Cultural Intelligence -- Fitness-Check für Cultural Intelligence -- „Yes, we can“ – because there’s no other chance? -- Reise zu den geistesgeschichtlichen Wurzeln -- Reisen bildet!.

Ordnungsfragen als disziplinäre und realwirtschaftliche Herausforderungen für das Internationale Management -- Global Rules and Private Actors — Towards a New Role of the Transnational Corporation in Global Governance -- Die Diskrepanz zwischen Gestaltungsnotwendigkeit und Gestaltungsrealitt...

Rahmenbedingungen -- Bevorzugte Investitionsregionen -- Markteintrittsstrategien -- Marktbearbeitungsentscheidungen -- Organisation -- Personalmanagement -- Controlling -- Public Affairs Management -- Fallstudien -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick: zehn Erfolgsfaktoren ausländischer Unternehmungen...

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter) Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business. This brand new edited collection addresses the growing uncertainty and socio-economic challenges of globalisation and its profound...

This textbook presents global supply chain and operations management from a comprehensive perspective, combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on the operational roles in the networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan and...

This book describes how a deeper knowledge and understanding of cultural differences represents a meaningful and useful tool for management of companies, and in particular SMEs, in the People’s Republic of China. After introductory chapters on the internationalization of SMEs and the role...

As the world is currently in the midst of financial and economic crises, this collection of expert contributions focuses on strategy formation and implementation at various organizational levels to address the challenges ahead. The latest economic turmoil and its ongoing impact on business...

This volume fills a gap in the international business literature, offering the perspectives of researchers who are deeply embedded in one key emerging market, India. With the global economy changing dramatically, firms from emerging markets are playing increasingly important roles in both...

'This original book addresses the important issue of cultural distance and provides insights for the sustainable development of both the green technology industry and international collaboration. It does so with a multidisciplinary perspective and uses the cases of two highly relevant regions....