Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861529929 ISBN 13: 9781861529923

Publisher: Cengage Learning Business Press, 2004

Business in Context 4e provides an introduction to the business environment and the key functions of business placed within a managerial, organizational and environmental context. Offering a dynamic and contemporary global perspective on business, key issues are debated and supported by practical cases from well-known international companies. The latest edition of David NeedleÂ's best-selling functional business environment text has been thoroughly revised and rewritten, with expanded coverage of management, new chapters on globalization and ethics, new cases, improved pedagogy and text design, and increased web support for the reader.

About the Author:

David Needle is Lecturer in International Business in the Department of Management, King's College London. He joined the Department Management as a Teaching Fellow in 2008. He was an undergraduate at the University of Liverpool and completed an MSc in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics. He began his academic career teaching English to mining apprentices and training shop stewards. He has worked in the UK university sector for over 30 years. He joined Kings from the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, where he spent four years. For several years he was a Head of Department in the Business School at the University of East London, in which capacity he managed and taught postgraduate courses in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Portugal and Germany. During his time with UEL he was seconded to for a period to Ford Motor Company. He teaches courses in international business, comparative management and the evolution of modern business. His consultancy work focuses on human relations issues and change management.