Business practices and performance vary widely across businesses within the same sector. A key outstanding question is why profitable practices do not readily diffuse. We conduct a field experiment among urban retailers in Indonesia to study whether alleviating informational and behavioral...

We study how secular culture affects firm behavior when formal institutions fall short. We find that firms more exposed to alcohol-related sin culture exhibit more earnings management and lean their operations more toward local business partners. Tests using latitude and snow/temperature as...

"Not one size fits all. Yet, some books teach business with minimal focus on the context for business. In reality, firms - large and small - are highly affected by the context in which they operate; yet, context is not uniformly conceptualized, theorized, and operationalized by scholars of...

"Hans Holbein's Triumphs (1532-1534), commissioned for the headquarters of the Hanseatic League in London and Kano Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth, speculation, exploitation, poverty, curiosity,...

Introduction -- Economic equality -- Gender equality -- Generational equality -- Combining equality and affluence -- The self-reinforcing nature of Nordic equality -- The art of compromise -- The deep historical roots of Nordic equality -- Challenges ahead -- Conclusion.

Einleitung -- Operatives Partner Management -- Vertiefungen -- Strategisches Partner Management -- Interest Management -- Einleitung -- Die ganzheitliche Wertschöpfung von Arbeit -- Zustände und Konsequenzen des internen Partnerings -- Neues Tool – der WeQ-Test -- Praxisbeispiele -- Internes...

"This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. In so doing, it demonstrates robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of the later period. Deploying a number of...

"Anybody who has ever done business with Americans can testify that there are more differences than similarities between the US business culture and those in the rest of the world. Whether it's values, etiquette, communication, influencing or negotiating, there's a clear American style. How you...

Markets in modern India : embedded, contested, pliable / Sebastian Schwecke and Ajay Gandhi -- Banking in the bazaar : the Nattukottai Chettiars / David Rudner -- Space in motion : an uneven narrative of urban private property in Bombay / Nikhil Rao -- Magic of business : occult forces in the...

"The objective of the book is to present novel insights into contemporary relations between Buddhism and economy. As an interdisciplinary project, it approaches the study of Buddhism and economy from various perspectives and locations. It provides new empirical research and pushes forward...

To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic,...

1. Currency-at-War: A Longer View -- 2. Forecasting, Yi Ching and San Bian Shu: A Chinese Approach for Gaining Foresight - An Interview with Jason Tan Beng Siang -- 3. Sustainability Reporting: Case of a University in Beijing -- 4. Wanted: A New, Chinese Paradigm in Finance -- 5. Real Estate and...

Foreword and acknowledgment -- Humor, business, and society -- From society to business : humor's use and roles in activist movements -- From business to society : humor's use and roles in marketing, corporate communications, and public relations -- Society within business : humor's use and...

‘Robert Crane's authors provide us with the kind of information we need. They do not limit themselves to present affairs, but also give us insight into the historical developments that helped to shape the present.’ -Geert Hofstede This book explores the way that culture and societal values...

Internationale Unternehmenskultur -- Kommunikation -- Personal international -- Internationales Geschäft - verhandeln, präsentieren und Geschäfte abschließen -- Vertrieb international -- Geschäftemachen in verschiedenen Ländern -- Beratung - ja, aber richtig! -- Glossar.

Previous research on corporate cultures and ethical business cultures has focused almost exclusively on studies of multinational corporations from a handful of developed countries. This book addresses the intersection of human resource development and human resource management with ethical...

This book provides a practical set of guidelines for people wishing to communicate professionally in Japan, following the model of the similar book by Kelm and Victor on Brazil. Good communication requires more than knowing the language. Haru Yamada, Orlando Kelm, and David Victor, seasoned...

This book offers a comprehensive study of the history of African business. By analyzing the specificities of African business culture, as well as the dynamically changing African policy context, the author sheds new light on the development of African enterprises, markets and institutions. The...