A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about International Business

The Second Edition of International Business includes recent impacts on international business such as the financial crisis, Brexit and the changing political landscape, Chinese steel prices and the Panama Papers revelations. It includes two new chapters on understanding people and organizations in International Business as well as coverage of recent international reports from Amnesty, Oxfam and the World Bank.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

Suitable for students of International Business, professionals working in global organizations and anyone curious about the workings of the international business world.

George Cairns is Adjunct Professor at QUT Business School, Brisbane. George co-founded and was co-editor of the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business. Throughout his writing, George has adopted a critical stance on the impacts of IB activity on remote and excluded stakeholders, both in the present and the future. Much of his work applies scenario methods to explore possible and possible futures. His studies include a number of journal articles on the ship breaking industry of Bangladesh. George has published in journals including Human Relations, European Journal of Operational Research, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and Futures.

Martyna Sliwa is Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at the University of Essex.

Her research interests focus on a range of topics relevant to the employees, managers and other

stakeholders of contemporary organisations, especially those operating in the international business

environment. Examples of Martyna’s recent research projects include: language(s) and power in

multinational corporations, transnational professional mobility, and the effects of the intersections

of nationality and gender on organisational hierarchies and individual careers of highly skilled

professionals. Martyna is currently an Associate Editor of Management Learning. She has

published in a variety of journals, for example: the British Journal of Management, Journal of

International Business Studies, Management Learning and Organization.