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What makes international joint ventures successful? Among other key success factors such as strategic fit, material and political-relational incentives, and the cultural compatibility of the joint venture partners, the role of one factor in the successful establishment and management of joint ventures is critical: the mutual trust among the managers involved. This book explores how to establish, develop, and continue to nurture mutual trust between the managers of German and Chinese joint ventures. A series of guided interviews conducted by the authors reveals assessments of Chinese and European executives about their mutual trust in the context of the cultural differences between the two countries, the worldviews characterizing China and Germany, and their impact on the behavior of their executives. The authors then use these judgements from the interviews to make recommendations for action to build more successful cooperation in German-Chinese business cooperation in future joint enterprises. Trust in German-Chinese Business Cooperation is essential reading for managers of international companies and students of business management, business psychology and intercultural management.

This book examines the challenges of intercultural management in sub-Saharan Africa. It presents a case study of Vasco Silva, a Portuguese businessman who established a successful business in Luanda, Angola. After four years of growth, Silva encounters a culture shock due to a wild strike by his employees. He embarks on a deep cultural exploration using the Hofstede 6D model and the Toyota-management tool Genchi Genbutsu (go and see for yourself). Gradually, Silva gains an understanding of effective leadership in the Angolan context, unraveling important features of local culture and initiating an organizational change project. This work contributes to the ongoing discourse in African management literature, particularly regarding the integration of modern and contemporary traditional organizational and leadership concepts. It responds to the demand for descriptive accounts of hybrid case studies of confluencing cultures. Scholars of African management philosophy and business leaders can utilize this case study to explore indigenous African notions in a business setting, demonstrating the performative characteristics of local leadership forms and the adaptability required for success in foreign business environments

"International Business" offers an insightful and comprehensive look into the world of international business. With the rise of global competition and the ever-increasing importance of economic autonomy, understanding the complex landscape of international trade has become more critical than ever. This book delves deep into various aspects of IB, including its origins, theories, and evolving dynamics, with an emphasis on the changing landscape of modern trade. The authors, both academic experts and seasoned practitioners, offer a nuanced and honest view of how globalization has impacted various nations and economies worldwide. From the tectonic shifts seen in the rise of China and India's economic power to the dominance of multinational companies, this book offers essential insights for anyone looking to navigate the complicated and rapidly changing world of international business. With a blend of academic rigor and practical perspectives, this book is a must-read for students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

This textbook shows students how to conduct strategic marketing with a global mindset, rather than just with an international focus. It illustrates how companies can take advantage of the opportunities and address the challenges associated with the increasing globalization of markets. Readers will learn about how culture shapes consumer needs and preferences, the impact of foreign political and economic factors on companies, the influence of international competition, and how to segment markets based on cultural factors. Drawing from novel theoretical insights in social psychology, cultural psychology, marketing, and management, the book provides a broad theoretical foundation for understanding the impact of culture on both global and ethnic branding decisions, and particularly so for devising branding strategies aimed at creating iconic brands that can resonate with today¿s consumers, who tend to be more multicultural.

Dieses essential gibt einen aktuellen Überblick über die Hintergründe der im Juli 2023 erstmals veröffentlichten China-Strategie der Bundesregierung und über die südostasiatischen Länder, die als Standortergänzung für eine ¿China+1¿-Strategie in Frage kommen. Spätestens seit 2020 wird die starke Abhängigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft zunehmend zum Problem. Es empfiehlt sich kein ¿Decoupling¿, sondern ein ¿De-Risking¿: der Auf- und Ausbau von Beziehungen zu weiteren Ländern in der Region, um zu diversifizieren und damit Risiken zu mindern. Dieses Buch will aufzeigen und erklären: Was sind die Gründe der neuen China-Strategie und welche Länder kommen als Standortergänzungen in Frage?Ein Buch für alle, die in China unternehmerisch tätig sind und über strategische Standortergänzungen und -alternativen nachdenken.

Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize the dominance of global market imperatives and others highlight the market's reliance upon extra-economic coercion and state violence. At the Margins of the Global Market engages in this debate through a comparative and world-historical analysis of the labour regimes of three global commodity-producing subregions of rural Colombia: the coffee region of Viejo Caldas, the banana region of Uraba, and the coca/cocaine region of the Caguan. By drawing upon insights from labour regimes, global commodity chains, and world historical sociology, this book offers a novel understanding of the broad range of factors - local, national, global, and interregional - that shape labour conditions on the ground in Colombia. In doing so, it offers a critical new framework for analysing labour and development dynamics that exist at the margins of the global market.

The business world is changing every minute, the introduction of technology in the business world has brought tremendous changes in the way businesses and companies conduct their business operations. The introduction of social media channels as one reliable way of conducting business has brought in a lot of changes.The study therefore sought to investigate the impact of adverting through Facebook on individual consumers in Malawi. The study intended to investigate if advertising through Facebook has an impact on consumers behavior in terms of consumers attitude, perception and experience. The study also shows that consumers are totally satisfied with the experience of Facebook adverting. The study further showed that it is important for company to provide quality social media training management trainings to their employs on how to interact and engage with customers and management of social media accounts. And also, a company to engage in awareness campaign to make sure that a lot of their customers are fully aware of TNM Facebook adverting.

The growing number of states with weak capacity to carry out basic governance functions is leading to unacceptable levels of human suffering. Using Ethiopia as a case study, this book acknowledges the multidimensional nature of state fragility and highlights the non-political factors that drive it.The first part uses institutional theory to explore how weak institutions become a source of state fragility by undermining social cohesion and the broader economic progress of countries. Part two examines the role of entrepreneurship and industrial policy as a means of creating and sustaining economic and political stability, trade policy as a means of increasing incomes and easing tensions, and technology policy as a means of engaging people in entrepreneurship and innovation. The final chapter provides lessons that fragile nations can learn from successful developing countries in Southeast Asia and Latin America.This book will appeal to researchers interested in international business, economic and business policy, international trade, and emerging markets who seek to understand how fragile states can promote sustainable peace and development.

Dollars And Sense: Tax assessment Revealed" welcomes perusers on an illuminating excursion into the unpredictable universe of tax collection, demystifying intricacies and offering lucidity on the monetary scene. In this exhaustive aide, the book goes past the ordinary comprehension of assessments, unwinding the nuanced strings that weave the texture of monetary arrangements and financial designs. The title, "Dollars And Sense," embodies the quintessence of the book, stressing the reasonable and levelheaded parts of tax collection. It plans to overcome any issues between the apparently conceptual universe of monetary guidelines and the unmistakable effect on individual wallets. By diving into the complexities of tax assessment, the book engages perusers to settle on informed monetary choices, furnishing them with the devices to explore the intricate trap of financial obligations. The expression "Tax collection Revealed" fills in as a commitment - a pledge to lifting the cover of intricacy that frequently covers charge frameworks. The book endeavors to demystify the language, unravel unpredictable guidelines, and shed light on the central rules that oversee tax assessment. Thusly, it looks to enable perusers with a significant comprehension of the reasoning behind charge structures, cultivating a feeling of monetary proficiency that goes past simple consistence. The construction of "Dollars And Sense" is intended to take special care of perusers of fluctuating degrees of monetary sharpness. Whether one is a fledgling looking for a prologue to tax collection or an old pro searching for more profound bits of knowledge, the book gives a thorough guide. It covers a range of points, from the nuts and bolts of pay tax collection and derivations to the subtleties of corporate duties and worldwide monetary strategies. The book adopts a comprehensive strategy, investigating the details of expense codes as well as the more extensive financial ramifications. It analyzes how charge strategies impact financial way of behaving, shape government income, and effect cultural designs. By drawing an obvious conclusion regarding dollars and sense, it highlights the significant impact of tax collection on the financial prosperity of people and the more extensive local area. Useful models, contextual investigations, and genuine situations are joined all through the book to represent key ideas. This approach guarantees that the substance stays open and material, permitting perusers to relate hypothetical information to their ordinary monetary choices. Through drawing in stories and engaging models, "Dollars And Sense" changes what could appear to be a dry subject into a connecting with investigation of monetary elements. Basically, "Dollars And Sense: Tax collection Disclosed" fills in as a signal for those exploring the frequently bewildering universe of expenses. It is a solicitation to not just figure out the dollars that stream all through private and authoritative cash safes yet additionally to get a handle on the more extensive monetary scene. By demystifying tax assessment, the book engages perusers to be honest stewards of their monetary fates, settling on informed choices that line up with their financial objectives and goals.

A book that harnesses the urgency around climate change, and transforms it into a best-practice 'manual' to help leaders and communicators best understand how to inspire, inform and motivate the public and consumers to action.

This is a unique book that adopts a global approach to studying international business. It stimulates research and rethinking among scholars and practitioners to understand how businesses operate internationally into lucrative markets, and their role in sustainable business growth, glocal value creation, and economic development. It provides insights into how international firms, entrepreneurs, family businesses, and other stakeholders balance the act of value creation and conducting sustainable and ethical business. The book covers economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability such as poverty alleviation through FDI and remittances, diversity and inclusion in management, and ethical governance to value creation for stakeholders and profit maximization through sustainable firm growth, entrepreneurial initiatives, and sustainable business models. It addresses capacity building and the grand challenges that international business needs to develop solutions for. Thechapters offer multiple types of contributions including conceptual and theoretical works, literature reviews, and empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies. The authors, and the topics included, provide a wide international representation and illustrate multi-layered sustainable business perspectives that cover developing, emerging, and developed country contexts as well as multiple directions of international business flows.

This book provides and sheds light on insights, challenges, and opportunities to support the development and economic growth of the fashion industries within emerging markets. The fashion industry is growing rapidly in emerging markets; fashion marketers and retailers are increasingly becoming aware of the benefits of this market and are forced to seek their future growth potentials in this part of the world; in addition, marketing strategies, tools and technologies have also evolved. With a growing demand for additional research, information, recommendations and insight from practitioners, entrepreneurs, students, and academics, contributing authors use multiple methods and theories to uncover, analyse, demonstrate, and present the facts in their chapters and provide integrated guideposts for future research. This book is intended to satisfy the needs of stakeholders in the quest for practical insights into fashion marketing in emerging economies, especially in South America, Asia and Africa.It offers timely information on growing areas such as sustainability, digital platforms, supply chain and logistics and provides a good insight for anyone seeking to explore opportunities in emerging market economies. The book offers a much needed resource for students, scholars and practitioners.

The business market of today is fiercely competitive. There are always more companies joining the fray: over the last 10 years, over 750,000 new startups have emerged in North America alone. Unfortunately, more than 60% of the new.

This book focuses on ¿Disruption and Change¿ in the Asian region. In this context, managers and policymakers face a fast transformation of existing structures and business environments. From a business perspective, change is the adoption of business strategies, activities, and operations that meet the needs of the firm and its stakeholder today while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. Disruption refers to the radical changes in existing industries or markets due to technological innovation breakthroughs. There is a consensus among scholars and practitioners that organizations must manage the change well to flourish in a competitive business environment. Many business models need to be rethought to establish new ways to stay competitive. The book, with its practical examples, gives the reader impulses for new Asian¿s approaches and encourages the readers to dare to think and act in new ways.

This edited collection highlights the unique cultural and socioeconomic elements of China and the strong influence of those elements on women leaders in the nation. The authors present perspectives on women leaders¿ current state of working conditions and balancing of personal and professional lives in diverse contexts while discussing commonalities and differences across sectors in China and drawing comparisons with Asian and non-Asian contexts. Chapters will explore cultural contexts that hinder career advancement, family roles for women, government policies and educational opportunities that support women's development, and finally the future for women in China. The book provides a thorough assessment of the situation of women in China for scholars in leadership, management, international relations, and human resource development.

This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies. It explores and examines the role of government programs in different stages of firm growth pre-startup, startup, and scale-up. By developing a theoretical framework and reviewing international evidence, the book identifies the best combination of government incentives to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, and provides concrete policy recommendations for decision-makers. Some of the issues tackled in this book include national innovation policy, innovation support programs, effectiveness of the support, challenges associated with the programs, risk-sharing and partnerships for innovation. This book is of interest to academics, students, practitioners, policymakers, governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as other stakeholders who wants to be informed about the challenges, progress and current trend in stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship.

The purpose of this book is to highlight how current successful Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) and companies have changed their business or business models in the past three decades. Japanese MNEs received a lot of attention from academia and industry during the 1980s and the early 1990s, and their factors for success have been compared with those of Western MNEs. Unfortunately, following the collapse of the ¿bubble economy¿ in the early 1990s, international business researchers and practitioners¿ attention has turned away from Japan and its MNEs to emerging markets, notably the rapidly growing China.Japanese MNEs have faced the mature domestic economy and also have had to overcome many new challenges in the twenty-first century, such as rapid aging, depopulation, and response to new technologies. Japanese MNEs and companies today are being forced to respond to new business environments never seen in the past. The prerequisites for business activities have significantly changed from those of former Japanese companies and their management practices. Even in such a difficult situation, however, many Japanese MNEs and emerging companies have achieved steady growth and have succeeded by changing their business models. This book provides the reader with new directions for research and lessons by analyzing the challenges of Japanese multinational enterprises and emerging companies. The redirection of attention is expected to have a positive impact on the field of international business study and practice.

The authors take an in-depth look at an accepted practice of classifying ALL animals held in a business of primary product in Australia as revenue assets regardless of the function they perform in that business. This practice denies retiring farmers tax concessions granted to other businesses. They describe the practice as unfair, and after a deep examination of the circumstances that gave rise to the generally accepted accounting and tax interpretation, they find that it is not true. They report their story and point their fingers at a glaring tax injustice.

Dieser Quick Guide gibt einen Überblick über Compliance, ESG und Investigations in Emerging Markets im Kontext wachsender Anforderungen wie des deutschen Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetzes und EU-Verordnungen. Deutsche Unternehmen sind durch neue Regelungen, besonders in Emerging Markets, mit verstärkten Sorgfalts-, Dokumentations- und Berichterstattungspflichten konfrontiert. Dieser Leitfaden beleuchtet diese Herausforderungen und zeigt, wie On-Site Audits effizient durchgeführt werden können.Der Inhalt:EinführungAnknüpfungspunkte: Due Diligence, Supply Chain Compliance, Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung, KorruptionsvermeidungBetroffene Kreise: Unternehmen, Tochtergesellschaften, Zulieferer, DritteOrganisation von On-Site AuditsZusammenfassung und AusblickDie ZielgruppenCEOs, CFOs, Rechtsabteilungsleiter, Compliance-Beauftragte, Beschaffungsmitarbeiter, Rechtsanwälte