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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Globalization of Services

   Some Implications for Theory and Practice

   Edited by Yair Aharoni, Lilach Nachum

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   In an era of accelerating change in the world economy, services are assuming greater importance for the economies of both developed and developing countries. As technological developments allow increasing tradeability of services, huge global firms are offering services across national boundaries....

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture

   By Dominic Power, Allen J. Scott

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Since the Second World War there has been considerable growth in the importance of non-manufacturing based forms of production to the performance of many Western economies. Many countries have seen increased contributions being made by industries such as the media, entertainment and artistic...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. International Business Geography

   Case Studies of Corporate Firms

   By Piet Pellenbarg, Egbert Wever

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Written by eminent scholars who are well known within their fields across Europe, this book explores changes in the international economic environment, their impacts on the strategy of firms and the spatial consequences of these changes in strategy. The economic environment in which major companies...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Multinational Enterprises and Innovation

   Regional Learning in Networks

   By Martin Heidenreich, Christoph Barmeyer, Knut Koschatzky, Jannika Mattes, Katharina Krüth, Elisabeth Baier

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   The crucial actors of a global knowledge-based economy are multinational enterprises (MNEs). MNEs depend on the embeddedness in an institutional framework; their competitive advantage depends on the cross-border utilisation of regional and national capabilities. The innovativeness of a company is...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. International Trade Theory

   A Critical Review

   By Murray Kemp

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia's foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London School of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, McGill University, MIT, and latterly Macquarie University. Kemp was a Member of Council for the Econometric...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. 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 August 24th 2010 by Routledge