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Culture Clash: Managing the Global High-Performance Team (The Global Leader Series) 33 reviews
Thomas D. Zweifel
Select Books (NY), 2003
Essential for Working in Another Country
Culture Clash is one of the most helpful books I've ever read, but it is also an easy book to read. It is helpful if you manage any kind of team, even if you're not working in another country. But if you work outside of your native country, you should definitely read this book.
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China's Global Reach: Markets, Multinationals, and Globalization (Revised and Updated Edition)3 reviews
George, Zhibin Gu
Fultus Corporation, 2006
revealing and decent
Author Gu is a brave fellow. He offers straightfoward info and analysis on what is really inside Chinese business and political world. He is highly critical of the Communist ills that continue to cause hellish problems for China and foreign operations inside. Other than this abusive bureaucratic power, Chinese people are very diligent and creative. But the key is to get rid of the overextended ...
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The New Silk Road: Secrets of Business Success in China Today6 reviews
Wiley, 2000
Valuable Case Histories to Build a Better Business in China
Almost everyone who knows little about China is enthralled by the opportunity to sell products to all those people who live there. Those with a little more knowledge also get excited about having products made for export from Mainland China. Those with still more knowledge look forward to outsourcing services to China. Beyond that, some speculate that Mandarin Chinese will even become the ...
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Birth of the Multinational: 2000 Years of Ancient Business History - from Ashur to Augustus3 reviews
David Lewis, Karl Moore
Copenhagen Business School Press, 1999
Excellent Economic History
Mr. Lewis and his co-author are not only great authors (their book is full of knowledge about an area of history that are often ignored in other economic history books), but Mr. Lewis happens to be a friend of mine (we go to the same church and he has given me great instruction on economic history). I am not a historian (but an amataur history student), and though the material was technical ...
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Global Smarts: The Art of Communicating and Deal Making Anywhere in the World4 reviews
Sheida Hodge
Wiley, 2000
An Alternative Textbook
I teach a college course on cross-cultural business, and I have used this book as one of my textbooks for the past 2 years. It is an engaging, practical, non-theoretical, hands-on description of the effect of culture on business practices, with plenty of stories from real-life people and pragmatic advice. I assign a chapter a week, and there is more than enough in 1 chapter to spend an entire ...
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Multinational Corporations in Political Environments: Ethics, Values and Strategies7 reviews
Usha C. V. Haley
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001
Good addition to review of multinationals
The scholarly literature on multinational corporations is very weak when it comes to explaining why multinationals leave. This is the focus of this book. After one of the best reviews EVER on research regarding the multinational corporation, the author presents a very detailed study on why they left South Africa. The implications for this study extend to anyone who wants to know why ...
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Working GlobeSmart: 12 People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders3 reviews
Ernest Gundling
Davies-Black Publishing, 2003
STERN'S MANAGEMENT REVIEW FINDS THIS BOOK TOP-NOTCH!
This book clarifies common pitfalls in interacting with foreign counterparts and offers solutions structured around twelve people skills: establishing credibility; giving and receiving feedback; obtaining information; evaluating people; building global teamwork; training and development; selling; negotiating; strategic planning; transferring knowledge; innovating; and managing change. The book is ...
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Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment4 reviews
Nathan M. Jensen
Princeton University Press, 2006
Good Book, interesting insights
This book challenges the traditional "race to the bottom" theory of FDI. Arguing that instead of low taxes and labor costs, MNCs actually look for stable political institutions and policy environments. By arguing that MNCs look for this type of stability, Jensen persuasively argues that democracy and additional veto players at the state level encourage FDI. The only critique that I will offer ...
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The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization4 reviews
Joshua Karliner
Sierra Club Books, 1997
Exhaustive and Brilliant
Karliner has a rare eye for absurdity that makes this more than a mere indictment of corporations. His description of how Chevron pacified an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea--by creating a Disneyland recreation of their own culture to impress them--is something so terrifying that no novelist could conceive it. He describes how, years later, the tribe had changed their traditional war paint ...
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Transnational Management: Text Cases and Readings in Cross Border Management (McGraw-Hill International ...4 reviews
Christopher A. Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal
McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1999
A great and well done book!
I'm student of international business and i think this book is a great tool for us. With so clear concepts and magnific cases is a great book to use like a text book.
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Careers in International Business1 review
Ed Halloran
McGraw-Hill, 2003
Careers in International
I am using this book for school. It presents the general overview of the career. I think is general, but it provides good points. I recommend it for people who want to tknow about this career.
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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (American ...1 review
Suzana Sawyer
Duke University Press, 2004
Globalization on the ground in Amazonia
This is one of the best books on indigenous politics that has been written. The author's 20 years of experience in the Ecuadoran Amazonia show in the depth of her narrative and in her careful and accessible use of Foucault to draw out the complexities of indigenous identity, conceptions of nation and nationalism, and the impact of global forces. It is also beautifully written. Clearly, a labor of ...
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Strategic Alliances: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Globalization2 reviews
Michael Y. Yoshino, U. Srinivasa Rangan
Harvard Business School Press, 1995
Please read this book if you're serious about joint ventures
This is the best book I know of for understanding how to create and manage a successful strategic alliance. There is so much redundant business literature out there on this subject that it is such a relief to finally have one good source. The great thing about this book was that it forced me to think about how competitive strategy and analysis should be the driver of any well conceived ...
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Business Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series)2 reviews
Capstone, 2004
Immensely helpful for the practitioner
Last year, when I first heard about this book -- Business Across Cultures -- I couldn't wait for its availability. My copy arrived in the post and I am not disappointed. The authors - Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams - along with Charles Hampden-Turner have been the leading proponents that value is not added but rather value is created by reconciling values of contrasts and conflict. This is ...
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Effective International Joint Venture Management: Practical Legal Insights for Successful Organization and ...1 review
Ronald Charles Wolf
M.E. Sharpe, 2000
Effective International Joint Venture Management
Effective International Joint Venture Management by Dr. Ronald Charles Wolf, an American attorney resident decades in Lisbon, Portugal, has received joint acclaim from the academic world and from corporate entrepreneurs. It is a practical guide to all the essential steps required in the formation and management of an international joint venture. This explicit and lucid textbook is for all ...
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Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries (14th ed (3 Vol Set))1 review
Uniworld Business Publications, 1996
What a resource!
The publisher took the epic task of accumulating very hard to find data and presented it in a clear and concise referrence book. I'm sure many people who are not aware of this title must spend weeks or even months gathering the information this book provides! A must-have for any business person with global intentions.
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The Color of Freedom: Overcoming Colonialism and Multinationals in India1 review
Laura Coppo
Common Courage Press, 2004
Six Stars, Really!
It reads like a novel, yet there is more truth in this tale than in virtually any other book I've ever read. These two people are real heroes, the kind one usually only reads about in books, but they are very much alive. One is tempted to say they are like Mother Teresa, only instead of caring for the dying, they care for the living!
It is also a tale of agribusiness interests run amok, "free ...
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International Business: Environments and Operations2 reviews
John D. Daniels, Lee H. Radebaugh
Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Best International Business Textbook
I use this textbook and its previous edition to teach International Business to senior level students in cyberspace. I consider this the most readable text on the subject. This edition has been slimmed down from the previous edition, and it is an improvement to an excellent text. My students agree that this text is great. Anyone who needs a comprehensive book on this field should purchase ...
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Antitrust and American Business Abroad/With Supplement (International Law Series)1 review
James R. Atwood, Kingman Brewster
Shepards/Mcgraw-Hill, 1981
incredibly helpful--a great resource
This treatise is a must have for any compete law library. It is anteresting combination of law and policy. As a practicing antitrust litigator, I have noticed that the treatise is often cited by judges as an authority.
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Entrepreneurship in Training: The Multinational Corporation in Mexico and Canada (Critical Issues Facing the ...1 review
Michael A. Diconti
University of South Carolina Press, 1992
Brilliant Revelation
Contrary to the wisdom of the politically correct, multinational corporations provide the laboratory to germinate the entrepreneurial spirit of the nationals in their employ. DiConti, with research that gets to the heart of the question, debunks the notion that the "evil" multinational corporations "pillage and plunder" the managerial and entrepreneurial talent of the countries in which they ...
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