International Business: Themes and Issues in the Modern Global Economy - Softcover

Turner, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415437644 ISBN 13: 9780415437646

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This new edition of International Business examines the impact of globalization on key aspects of the business environment. It offers a comprehensive overview of this phenomenon that is altering corporate strategy fundamentally, critiquing the complexities of globalization and its impact on international business.

International Business offers a holistic examination of the processes that influence the evolution of strategy in the modern global economy. It is divided into three sections:

• impact of globalization: how globalization has driven the processes of regional integration and the emergence of transnational governance structures
• environmental drivers: how international strategy is shaped and the emergence of internationalized businesses
• resource issues: how resources can determine success in the global economy or impede firm evolution.

Featuring a wealth of new case studies, updated pedagogy and a fresh new design, this new textbook will prove essential reading for all those studying international business.

A companion website provides additional material for lecturers and students alike: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415437646.

About this title

About the Author:

Debra Johnson is Senior Lecturer at Hull University, UK.

Colin Turner is Senior Lecturer in International Strategic Management at Heriot-Watt University, UK. He has published extensively within the broad field of International Management.

Review:

Praise for the previous edition:

'Johnson and Turner balance their strong European examples with broader use of relevant theory. They explore the newer issue of corporate and social responsibility, greening the MNE, and the regionalization of international business strategy.' - Alan M. Rugman, Oxford and Indiana University

'A highly readable text that provides a comprehensive guide to the intriguing complexities of international business.' - Dr John Ellis, Bournemouth Business School

'This valuable new text introduces and integrates topical issues and the variety of perspectives from which they may be viewed. It provides a very good foundation for an understanding of the background against which international business and management decisions are made in today's dynamic global environment. It is especially relevant to see SMEs, green issues and energy given special consideration.' - Stuart Rooks, Oxford Brookes University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415437644
• ISBN 13: 9780415437646
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528