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For International Business courses This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States. Successfully prepare students for the international marketplace. International Business illustrates how successful managers must function in a competitive world. Packed with current examples that reflect the vibrancy of the international business field, this student-friendly text offers a managerial approach that keeps an emphasis on skills development, emerging markets and geographical literacy. The sixth edition of this internationally popular text contains all the same core concepts while incorporating new and current topic coverage.
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Comparing capitalisms and taking institutional context seriously
A major limitation of existing international business (IB) research remains the rather thin view of institutional context. In this retrospective, we reflect upon and highlight different strategies for overcoming de-contextualized perspectives and developing thicker conceptions of institutions drawing on comparative research. Institutions shape firm behavior not only through their direct or additive effects, but have more complex influences by moderating relationships between firm-level variables or having interactive or configurational effects related to wider sets of institutions. These views can each be extended by adopting a dynamic perspective examining how multinational enterprise (MNE) agency contributes to processes of institutional change. Ultimately, a large gap remains in taking institutions seriously that IB scholars could fill by developing middle-range theories that link and compare how particular kinds of institutions or institutional configurations influence particular kinds of MNE activities.
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Corporate governance: An international perspective
Corporate governance can be defined as the set of legal policies that stipulate the parties who have the right to make the most important decisions in business organizations, consisting of corporate control and the processes and procedures through which these parties practice the decision-making power and control. In many corporate governance structures, control is assigned solely to investors, who being the equity capital providers expect residual risk by right of having a claim on residual revenues and profits. The most important ethical question in corporate governance is how shareholders' exclusive right to control and profit from a company can be justified. The adoption of corporate governance systems, the convergence of corporate governance activities toward globally accepted practices, and initiatives taken to ensure effective corporate governance practices are all discussed in this volume. For instance, the government of Malaysia has taken significant steps to establish the infrastructure that is required for efficient corporate governance practices. Ultimately, the agenda for effective corporate governance requires serious focus on enforcement, monitoring, and advocacy. Financial markets globalization over the previous decade has necessitated international compliance with corporate governance standards.
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Masters of management : how the business gurus and their ideas have changed the world--for better and for worse
\"A complete update of the 1996 bestselling THE WITCH DOCTORS, a penetrating and engaging history of management theory that sorts the wisdom from the dross, and the wise men from the charlatans\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Values, schemas, and norms in the culture-behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework
International business (IB) research has predominantly relied on value constructs to account for the influence of societal culture, notably Hofstede's cultural dimensions. While parsimonious, the value approach's assumptions about the consensus of values within nations, and the generality and stability of cultural patterns of behavior are increasingly challenged. We review two promising alternatives - the constructive approach centering on schemas and the intersubjectivist approach centering on norms - and the evidence that demonstrates their usefulness in accounting for international differences in the behavior of managers, employees, and consumers. We propose a situated dynamics framework, specifying the role of values, schemas, and norms in accounting for cultural differences, and delineating conditions under which each causal mechanism is operative. Values play a more important role in accounting for cultural differences in weak situations where fewer constraints are perceived; schemas play a more important role when situational cues increase their accessibility and relevance; and norms play a more important role when social evaluation is salient. Directions for future research based on this integrative framework and its implications for the measurement of culture and application in IB are discussed.
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Emergencies in public law : the legal politics of containment
\"Debates about emergency powers traditionally focus on whether law can or should constrain officials in emergencies. Emergencies in Public Law moves beyond this narrow lens, focusing instead on how law structures the response to emergencies and what kind of legal and political dynamics this relation gives rise to. Drawing on empirical studies from a variety of emergencies, institutional actors, and jurisdictional scales (terrorist threats, natural disasters, economic crises, and more), this book provides a framework for understanding emergencies as long-term processes rather than ad hoc events, and as opportunities for legal and institutional productivity rather than occasions for the suspension of law and the centralization of response powers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Cross-Cultural Research Imperative: The Need to Balance Cross-National and Intra-National Diversity
This paper provides a brief overview of the evolution of comparative management theories/paradigms, and highlights the contribution of the 'cross-vergence' construct. Despite progress, most studies of work values across countries continue to suffer from two primary limitations. The first is the fallacious assumption of cultural homogeneity with nations. Given the growing diversity of the workforce within country, intra-national variations can often be as significant as cross-national differences. The second is the fallacious assumption of cultural stability over time. Since cultures evolve, albeit slowly, it is important to take these changes over time into consideration, and be aware of the paradoxes inherent within any given society. Hence the paper calls for the need to balance cross-national and intra-national diversity in order to truly understand cross-cultural phenomena, and thus further improve the quality of cross-cultural research.
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