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1. Infrastructure Development in the Pacific Region

   Edited by Akira Kohsaka

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   In the past, undersupply of public infrastructure was blamed for low productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s, while greater private sector participation was emphasized for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region before the Asian Economic Crisis in the 1990s. This...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Marketing Management in Asia

   Edited by Stanley Paliwoda, Tim Andrews, Junsong Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Asia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the world’s largest markets plus many emergent markets as well. North America is fast ceding ground to China as the world’...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Self-Initiated Expatriation

   Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives

   Edited by Maike Andresen, Akram Al Ariss, Matthias Walther

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries. While the contemporary literature has focused on organizational expatriates sent overseas by their employers,...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. International Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises

   Edited by Niina Nummela

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   The majority of SMEs are operating in a networked business environment, and these networks extend beyond national and cultural boundaries. Within these networks, growth takes various routes and forms. Instead of linear, positive growth, international growth is often more cyclical, including periods...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Corporations, Global Governance and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

   By Peter Davis

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   In the past two decades, the international community has shown an increased proclivity to engage in programmes of post-conflict reconstruction in the aftermath of wars. During the same period, increased globalisation has meant that multinational companies have grown greatly in size and influence...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Governing Interests

   Business Associations Facing Internationalism

   Edited by Wolfgang Streeck, Jurgen Grote, Volker Schneider, Jelle Visser

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   In the current period of globalization, Governing Interests presents new research on the impact of internationalization on the organization and representation of business interests through trade and employer associations. By exploring ongoing, gradual, but nevertheless profound changes in the...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Petroleum Taxation

   Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

   By Carole Nakhle

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Corporate Strategy

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by John Saee

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   With the onset of the third millennium, increasing numbers of corporations around the world have been undergoing cultural and mindset shift paradigms whilst developing corporate strategies that are increasingly attuned to the highly competitive and dynamic business realities arising from...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Labor Standards

   Firms and Activists in the Making of Private Regulation

   By Luc Fransen

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   How effective are multinational companies at improving working conditions in their supply chains? This book focuses on a crucial dynamic in private efforts at regulating labor standards in international production chains. It addresses questions regarding the quality of rules (Are existing efforts...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies

    Brazil, Russia, India and China

    By Lynne Ciochetto

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge