'Professor Michael Porter [is] one of the world's most influential authorities on corporate strategy...[the book] stands to become a standard text for the analysis of relative national economic performance.' - Independent on Sunday 'Michael Porter builds up an all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytical ...
New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy ...
Market-defining since it was first introduced, "International Business, Seventh Edition" by Charles W. L. Hill, continues to set the standard for international business textbooks. In writing the book, Charles Hill draws on his experience in teaching, writing, and global consulting to create the most thorough, up-to-date, and thought-provoking text ...
Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, ...
This study considers the shift of assets from central governments to private enterprise in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and analyzes how such changes as deregulation and privatization will affect economic power in the world.
Updated and with a new Afterword by the author, Fishman's bestselling work has already changed the way China is seen and talked about by governments, businesses, and a wide public around the world.
For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy ...
Situating "development" as a world-historical project, this text traces its contours across three historical periods: colonialism, the "development era," and the era of globalization. McMichael shows how the social transformations from "colonial subjects," through "national citizens," to "global consumers" have been inspired and managed through ...
By focusing on managerial implications, this text offers an in-depth look at international business. It covers: how and why countries differ; the functions of the global monetary system; the economics and politics of international trade and investment; and the strategies of international business.
The authors' exhaustive study of more than 3,000 companies in China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Eastern Europe reveals how these new companies have come to power, and how the West will have to step up its game to compete.
Incorporating interviews he conducted throughout the industry with everyone from company leaders, past and present, and Wall Street analysts to design engineers and factory workers, Newhouse takes readers inside these two firms to understand their struggle for supremacy in a business based as much on instinct as on economics.
In this title, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain the revolution in ideas that is transforming economic power around the world. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
In order to understand international economic regulations, it is essential to understand the variation in competing corporations' interests. Political science theories have neglected the role of individual firms as causal actors. Theories of institutions have neglected to examine the creation of business law. Economic theories have neglected to ...
Today, time is on the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. The ways leading companies manage time - in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution - represent the most powerful new sources of ...
Ferdinand Porsche, widely revered as the inventor of the VW Beetle, stole the plans for the "people's car" from a Czech designer with Hitler's help. General Motors manufactured jet engines for Hitler's army, then got $33 million in tax exemptions from the U.S. government for damages sustained by Allied bombing of its German factories. Packed with ...
This is a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide. It surveys both sides of the picket lines, and provides an assessment of multinational managements' strategies to downsize, introduce flexible production and compel workers to accept less pay for more work. The book emphasizes the need, in the face of these changes, for ...
In the tradition of Theory Z, a management expert explains how America can regain its #1 economic power status by using Japanese business techniques. In this unique guide, business people will discover why managers are responsible for 99% of all day-to-day business breakdowns, why building to specs guarantees stagnation, and more.
Essays discuss technology, manufacturing, marketing, finance, capital, government policies, coalitions, competition, and leadership in the global marketplace, and look at specific cases.
Bestselling author Michel Robert gives you his trademark pure and simple rules for developing solid business strategies. In this anticipated follow-up to his previous bestsellers, management expert Michel Robert unveils his practical and proven methodology for you to plan and implement effective corporate strategies. Featuring a detailed ...
In this theoretically original work, two distinguished authors explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms throughout the world. They show how global structural changes - in finance, technology, knowledge and politics - often impel governments to seek the help and cooperation of managers of multinational enterprises. Yet, as Professors ...
In today's intensely competitive climate of merger-mania, more than 70% of conglomerates will fail within the first three years. Most of these are victims of culture clash. Written by the President of an international consultancy specializing in cross-cultural business relations, this book presents effective strategies for dealing with the most ...
Over the past thirty years, the United States has lost commanding leads in business after business. We no longer make cameras, TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, or DVD players, and we have become the worlds largest debtor nation. Everyone thinks this is because of cheap labor costs, but in fact Asian leaders have a fundamental and different way of ...
This is an analysis of the increasingly differentiated regions of the South, the former Eastern bloc countries and Western Europe. The author integrates his economic arguments about the nature of the crisis with political arguments based on his vision of human history as the product of social response to material realities. The book analyzes the ...
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