International Logistics: Management of International Trade Operations (with Make the Grade Printed Access Card) - Softcover

Pierre A. David; Richard D. Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1111464987 ISBN 13: 9781111464981

Publisher: Atomic Dog, 2010

Synopsis

The text is directed at the users of international logistics services: it covers all of the concepts that are important to managers who are actively exporting or importing goods or are otherwise involved in international trade operations. All of the relevant issues are thoroughly explained, including documentation, terms of payment, terms of trade (Incoterms), exchange rate exposure, international insurance, Customs clearance, agency and distributorship sales contracts, packaging, transportation, and security issues.

About this title

About the Author:

Pierre David is a Professor of Business Administration at Baldwin-Wallace College, a liberal arts university located in Berea, Ohio. His teaching interests include marketing and operations management, particularly as these disciplines are applied to an international environment. His primary teaching focus are the courses in international logistics and international market research offered as part of the Baldwin-Wallace College International MBA program. His regular teaching schedule also includes courses in international marketing, marketing management, market research, and operations management at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In 1998, based upon student recommendations, he received the Bechberger Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. David has also had the opportunity to conduct international logistics training sessions in the United States, France, Turkey, China, and Brazil. His research interests are in international logistics and international market research, but also include statistics: he and other faculty members at Kent State University are doing very large scale computer simulations to determine sampling distributions of specific statistics. He earned a Ph.D from Kent State University, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA from l'École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord in Lille, France, all of which were in marketing and operations management. He has lived in four different countries (Tunisia, Switzerland, France, and the United States) and visited a dozen more. Dr. David is active in several youth programs, the United Way, and his church. He is married to Beth, and they have three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atomic Dog
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1111464987
• ISBN 13: 9781111464981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 439