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Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business competition
Now in its second edition, and in collaboration with their
contributing authors, world renowned academics Peter J. Buckley FBA
OBE, Peter Enderwick, and Hinrich Voss draw on their wealth of
experience and expertise to present a truly global text on
international business. The Global Factory framework, developed by
Peter J. Buckley, forms an overarching, coherent and accessible
model for understanding how businesses operate globally.
Synthesising perspectives from economics, social anthropology,
political economy, and management, International Business also
provides a multitude of examples, case studies and insights from
across the globe that link theory to management practices - all to
equip you for the challenges faced in the business world today.
Engaging examples include internationally-recognised companies such
as Nike, Ben & Jerry's, TikTok and Maersk, as well as
organizations from emerging markets such as Saudi Arabia, Brazil
and Turkey. Opening cases discuss real challenges faced by
international businesses, inviting you to discuss and devise your
own solutions, while closing cases and 'IB Insights' offer
opportunities to further reflect on international business
practices at real, global companies. Stretch your critical thinking
skills by engaging with the 'Topics for Debate', and build strong
academic understanding by looking at the 'Research Insights', which
introduce key scholarship and provide commentary on seminal
international business research. This fully revised and more
concise edition is your ideal guide to international business. An
exciting development for this new edition, the enhanced e-book
offers an even more flexible and seamless way to learn:
www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks This book is accompanied by the
following online resources: For students: Links to seminal articles
as highlighted in the Research Insights feature Online activities
to develop skills in research, data collection, and analysis Web
links to sources of data, each accompanied by critical commentary
Multiple-choice questions with instant feedback IB decision-aids to
explore real, decision-making tools used by managers For lecturers:
A case study bank Additional shorter and longer case studies with
exemplar answers Links to video clips, accompanied by short
paragraphs of critical commentary Comprehensive, customisable
PowerPoint slides Test bank Tutorial activities Suggested
assignment questions Instructor's manual including a guide to
teaching the Global Factory framework, and guidance from the
authors on the case study questions, IB challenges, and Topics for
Debate features
Based on the chart-topping BUSINESS WARS podcast re-imagined using
Sun Tzu's THE ART OF WAR as a guide, THE ART OF BUSINESS WARS
features stories and lessons from history's greatest business
rivalries revealing why some companies triumph while others
crumble. Business is a fight for survival. In business as in war,
leaders match their wills in pursuit of opposing outcomes, they
devise strategies, and marshal resources for victory. Success can
turn on the smallest of details; a single tactical blunder can
topple an empire. Ultimately, one side triumphs - and victory is
all that matters. In The Art of Business Wars, David Brown, host of
the hit podcast Business Wars, masterfully frames some of the
biggest business rivalries in history using revered Chinese
military strategist Sun Tzu's insights and pragmatic advice. Each
rivalry tells a story of combined wits, strategies, and resources.
Brown chronicles the rise of companies as they vanquish rivals,
formulate innovative plans, and adapt to keep up with shifting
needs. The goal? Stay ahead of the competition and emerge
victorious. By compiling powerful insights uncovered over hundreds
of podcast episodes and more than a year of in-depth research,
Brown has developed a formula for business intrigue rich in popular
history. The stories in The Art of Business Wars will inspire you,
and the lessons you can draw from them - about determination,
ingenuity, patience, grit, subtlety, and other traits that
contribute to a victorious enterprise - are invaluable, whether
you're a creative freelancer or the CEO of a multinational
manufacturer.
The competition for inward investment among regions and within and
between nations is intense, and the promotional agencies concerned
are increasingly innovative in their competitive strategies. This
book examines the new competition for inward investment and, in
particular, discusses the interconnections between localities that
this creates. Two key dimensions of this are pursued, with examples
from the EU, North America and the Far East. First, the book deals
with the new corporate investment dynamics such as time-based
competition and the increasing significance of repeat investment.
Second, the contributors explore the local and national
institutional dynamics of increasingly creative efforts to attract
mobile investments. These new corporate and institutional dynamics
raise important issues regarding local and national democracy, and
the sustainability of economic development. The New Competition for
Inward Investment is an inter-disciplinary book with an
international focus. As such, the book will appeal to scholars of
international business and especially those interested in the
economic dimensions of globalisation and the globalisation debate.
It will also be of interest to scholars and practitioners of
regional science and regional economic development, including
economic geographers and town planners.
The Pacific Alliance treaty has created one of the most competitive
and fastest growing economies in the world. In this
multi-disciplinary study, authors Monica Blanco-Jimenez and Jesus
Cruz Alvarez investigate top industries and the cultural, political
and entrepreneurship practices that impact the economic and
competitive development of its members. Divided into six parts, the
contributors to this volume show the global strategies and
synergies that are part of one of the world's most competitive
trade zones. Part I explores how this regional integration was
build, while Part II presents comparative studies about
competitiveness in the automotive industry and Part III offers two
studies on Mexico's exports. Part IV, V and VI focus on Peru,
Colombia and Chile respectively, looking across social
entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and social
development. Containing the most recent research in international
business and relations, this book will help researchers, students
and entrepreneurs get to the roots of competitiveness and
sustainable growth.
Harvard psychiatrist and executive coach Srinivasan S. Pillay
illuminates the rapidly-emerging links between modern brain science
and the corner office. What does neuroscience have to do with
leadership? Everything. In Your Brain and Business: The
Neuroscience of Great Leaders, Phillay discusses recent advances in
brain science and neuroimaging and how they can dramatically
improve the way leaders work with colleagues to drive successful
change. As the brain is increasingly examined in the context of
personal and organizational development, remarkable insights are
being uncovered: insights that are leading to powerful new
strategies for improving business execution. Pillay reveals six
ways that brain science can be used by today's executives, and
presents new interventions for coaches who want to help their
clients overcome common leadership problems. Discover how to: Use
positive, "strengths-based" approaches to encourage the brain to
learn Encourage more effective relationships through the
fascinating neuroscience of social intelligence Promote innovation
and intuition, and overcome intangible vulnerabilities in leaders'
brains Transform the "idea" of change into crisp, timely execution
Leaders and coaches worldwide are already applying this knowledge
to dramatically improve personal performance. Now, with Pillay's
help, everyone can.
Strong forces of change are reshaping the management landscape.
TodayAEs business environment is fraught with uncertainty, diverse
global players, rapid technological change, widespread price wars,
and seemingly endless reorganization. The editors and contributors
of Managing in Times of Disorder demonstrate that a far-reaching
shift has occurred in the venture of competition that has resulted
in a new organizational paradigmuhypercompetition. The innovative
chapters in this groundbreaking volume form a complex fabric of new
theoretical frameworks, models, strategies, organizational forms,
and interdisciplinary methods that address hypercompetitive
environments in a radically new way. The authorsAE findings reveal
new patterns of language, metaphor, structure, and strategy that
are necessary for business survival in chaotic times. Managing in
Times of Disorder will be of interest to students and professionals
in organization studies and management.
During the 1970s and 1980s, American manufacturing enterprises saw
their technological dominance challenged by increasingly tough
competition from abroad. This book investigates business responses
to those challenges. On average, F. M. Scherer shows, 308 U.S.
companies reacted to rising imports of high-technology products by
cutting back research and development expenditures as a percentage
of sales. The cutbacks were particularly large in industries
protected by voluntary trade restraint agreements and other trade
barriers. Using statistical data and eleven in-depth case studies,
Scherer finds that company responses to new high-technology
competition from abroad were highly diverse. Aggressive reactions
predominated in firms producing color film, wet shavers, medical
imaging apparatus, fiber optics, and earth-moving equipment. But
the efforts of U.S. manufacturers in other lines such as color
television, VCRs, and facsimile machines were too meager to repel
technologically innovative overseas challengers. Exploring why
reactions differed so much from case to case, Scherer finds
systematic explanations in such variables as the multinationality
of enterprises, domestic market structure, links to academic
science bases, and the educational background of top managers. He
concludes by offering proposals to improve the competitiveness of
American high-technology companies.
This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics
and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new
trends in modern capitalism. It shows how giant corporations
establish themselves as intellectual monopolies and how each of
them builds and controls its own corporate innovation system. It
presents an analysis of a new form of production where Google,
Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, and their counterparts in
China, extract value and appropriate intellectual rents through
privileged access to AI algorithms trained by data from
organizations and individuals all around the world. These
companies' specific form of production and rent-seeking takes place
at the global level and challenges national governments trying to
regulate intellectual monopolies and attempting to build stronger
national innovation systems. It is within this context that the
authors provide new insights on the complex interplay between
corporate and national innovation systems by looking at the
US-China conflict, understood as a struggle for global
technological supremacy. The book ends with alternative scenarios
of global governance and advances policy recommendations as well as
calls for social activism. This book will be of interest to
students, academics and practitioners (both from national states
and international organizations) and professionals working on
innovation, digital capitalism and related topics.
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