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Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

  1. Successfully Doing Business/Marketing In Eastern Europe

    Edited by V H Kirpalani, Lechoslaw Garbarski, Erdener Kaynak

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Successfully Doing Business/Marketing in Eastern Europe is a unique collection of instructive and detailed essays that will help readers to understand and navigate the complexities of the business world and marketplace of Eastern Europe. The respected authors in this collection seamlessly blend...

    Published November 3rd 2008 by Routledge

  2. The Political Economy of Oil and Gas in Africa

    The case of Nigeria

    By Soala Ariweriokuma

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    The evolution of the Nigerian oil and gas industry spanned about a century during which several challenges were encountered and surmounted by major International Oil Companies (IOCs). This book provides a thoroughly researched guide to the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The author...

    Published October 21st 2008 by Routledge

  3. International Trade Theory

    A Critical Review

    By Murray Kemp

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia's foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London School of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, McGill University, MIT, and latterly Macquarie University. Kemp was a Member of Council for the Econometric...

    Published May 11th 2008 by Routledge

  4. International Management and Language

    By Susanne Tietze

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Globalization processes have resulted in the emergence of business and management networks in which the sharing of knowledge is of crucial importance. Combining two contemporary and important subject areas – namely that of international management and also language and communication in...

    Published May 5th 2008 by Routledge

  5. Petroleum Taxation

    Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    By Carole Nakhle

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

    Published April 28th 2008 by Routledge

  6. Space, Oil and Capital

    By Mazen Labban

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase in the demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the concentration of capital in, and the geographical expansion of, the production of natural resources, globalizing and intensifying the competition for the...

    Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge

  7. Contemporary Corporate Strategy

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by John Saee

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    With the onset of the third millennium, increasing numbers of corporations around the world have been undergoing cultural and mindset shift paradigms whilst developing corporate strategies that are increasingly attuned to the highly competitive and dynamic business realities arising from...

    Published December 27th 2007 by Routledge

  8. Trade, Globalization and Poverty

    Edited by Elias Dinopoulos, Pravin Krishna, Arvind Panagariya, Kar-yiu Wong

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    An outstanding work, written to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Jagdish Bhagwati; the foremost defender of free trade and its role in developing economies in the world today, this rigorously academic and critical volume represents an important contribution to the understanding of many aspects...

    Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge

  9. The World Bank and Global Managerialism

    By Jonathan Murphy

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization. Relatively few scholars have addressed the political sociology of globalization, and specifically, the emergence of global class formations and a nascent global governance framework. This...

    Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge

  10. International Business Geography

    Case Studies of Corporate Firms

    By Piet Pellenbarg, Egbert Wever

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Written by eminent scholars who are well known within their fields across Europe, this book explores changes in the international economic environment, their impacts on the strategy of firms and the spatial consequences of these changes in strategy. The economic environment in which major companies...

    Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge

  11. Big Business and Economic Development

    Conglomerates and Economic Groups in Developing Countries and Transition Economies Under Globalisation

    Edited by Barbara Hogenboom, Alex E. Fernández Jilberto

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of experts, this is the first comprehensive volume to analyze conglomerates and economic groups in developing countries and transition economies. Using sixteen in-depth case studies it provides a comparative framework for the study of...

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  12. Infrastructure Development in the Pacific Region

    Edited by Akira Kohsaka

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    In the past, undersupply of public infrastructure was blamed for low productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s, while greater private sector participation was emphasized for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region before the Asian Economic Crisis in the 1990s. This...

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  13. Governing Interests

    Business Associations Facing Internationalism

    Edited by Wolfgang Streeck, Jurgen Grote, Volker Schneider, Jelle Visser

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    In the current period of globalization, Governing Interests presents new research on the impact of internationalization on the organization and representation of business interests through trade and employer associations. By exploring ongoing, gradual, but nevertheless profound changes in the...

    Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge