International business Books

Book SynopsisSocial franchising represents a third generation form of franchising development, after trade-name and business-format franchising. At the intersection of social enterprise and micro finance literatures, this book reviews a variety of social franchising formats across a number of developing countries.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ilan Alon) 1. Social Franchising as an Organizational Format – An Overview; Anita du Toit 2. Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Microfranchising; Lisa Jones Christensen and David Lehr 3. The Scope for Scaling Up Social Enterprises in China; Michael Norton 4. Access Afya: Micro-Clinic Health Franchise Designed for Scale; Kevin McKague, Melissa Menke, Ajanthy Arasaratnam 5. World Vision: Catalyzing the growth of Microfranchising in Tanzania; Andy Hunter and Ashley Wheaton

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of this popular textbook has been thoroughly expanded and updated throughout to explore the latest approaches to cross-cultural management, presenting strategies and tactics for managing international assignments and global teams. With a clear emphasis on learning and development, this new edition introduces a global management model, along with enhanced 'Applications' and 'Manager's Notebooks' to encourage students to acquire skills in multicultural competence that will be highly valued by their future employers. These skills have never been more important in a world where, increasingly, all managers are global managers and where management practices and processes can differ significantly across national and regional boundaries. This textbook is suitable for students taking courses on international management, as well as those on executive training programmes.

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Book SynopsisBankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages won't solve their banking crises. Cleaning up balance sheets and purging non-performing loans won't work either, say Arayama and Mourdoukoutas. The problem goes deeper. It stems from high growth environments and tight government regulation. The result has been to limit competition in Japan and eliminate it in China. And that led to the control of management behavior, which weakened incentives for Japanese and Chinese bank decision-makers to manage, hands-on, their traditional and nontraditional banking risks. Adding to the problem is rationed credit, reflecting MITI and MOF priorities in Japan and those set by the central planning authorities in China. Japanese bankers have been turned into experts on the abacus, the ancient calculator, but they have little experience with or understanding of the other more important aspects of the banking enterprise. Arayama and Mourdoukoutas lay it all out in a challenging, provocative, readable study and analysis. It is an essential resource for academicians and policymakers in business, government, and international finance and investment.Arayama and Mourdoukoutas make it clear that Japanese and Chinese bankers must learn how to behave as for-profit institutions, where managers are accountable to the owners and other stakeholders. Second, they must be freed from government directives (in China) and guidance (in Japan) that control their day-to-day operations, and which restrict freedom to develop new products and businesses. Third, Japanese and Chinese bank managers must learn to act as true bankers. They must learn how to manage credit risk and function as public trading corporations. They must also learn how to deal with transparency and full disclosure rules and regulations, just as their Western counterparts must and do. In other words, say the authors, bank managers must escape the abacus mentality and learn how to use their brains rather than their fingers... and that may take much longer than anxious Western observers would have expected.Table of ContentsBeyond Nonperforming Assets: Abacus Banking The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking and the Banking Crisis in Japan The Rise of Abacus Banking in Japan The Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan The Banking Crisis The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking and the Looming Banking Crisis in China The Rise of Abacus Banking in China The Fall of Abacus Banking in China The Looming Banking Crisis in China Conclusions

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Book SynopsisIn the era of globalization, the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) is increasing in importance while the influence of nation-states is in a corresponding decline. Jain contends that this trend will benefit the cause of worldwide economic prosperity, which MNCs alone are positioned to deliver. The increasing availability of global capital, coupled with advances in computing and communications technology, has accelerated the process of doing business anywhere and everywhere. At the same time, barriers to foreign entities wishing to conduct business in Russia, China, India, Brazil, and Indonesia are falling away.As the process of globalization marches on, what can be done to ensure that material prosperity is the result? A Global Business Confederation, Jain argues, should be established to design rules that apply worldwide and that encourage MNCs to generate global economic prosperity in a manner responsive to cultural, social, and humanitarian concerns.Table of ContentsPreface The Evolution of Multinational Enterprises Forces at Work The Rise of Business Globalization The Myth of Globalization The Future of Globalization A Global Business Confederation The Nation = State A Manifesto for the Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile there may be similarities among many Latin American countries, it is important for business travellers to understand the subtle differences and nuances among them. Understanding of the culture and customs behind the economic growth in Latin America, including the role that religion and the Church play in government and everyday life is essential. Countries explored in "Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: Latin America" are Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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Book SynopsisElectronic globalized business and sustainable development through IT management: strategies and perspectives provides fresh ideas on how IT and modern management can contribute to societal and economic objectives, and the significant role of IT for global challenges and international collaboration. This book aims to bring together academics, researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and government officers to contribute to the debate on sustainable development and strategic management through Information Technology.

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