International business management students are trained to become future international business managers, necessitating a thorough education including current and relevant information to be able to live up to their professional responsibilities. This study evaluates the quality of international...

"To fill the gaps in theoretical and empirical aspects of the existing international business and management literature, the book addresses several major issues of values in international business in a permanently changing world. The current environmental and geopolitical ever changing...

Chapter 1: Introduction - Setting the Stage -- Part I: The Historical Evolution of IB Thought -- Chapter 2: The Emergence and Growth of International Business Thought as an Evolutionary Process -- Chapter 3: Commentary on “The Emergence and Growth of International Business Thought as an...

Looking Beyond the Frontiers of Conventional International Business Research: Exploring Opportunities and Making a (Small, But Real) Difference -- Part I: Enriching International Business Research Agenda -- The Full Canvas: Exploring the Bright and Dark Sides of International Business Strategy...

1. The Origins of Early Internationalization -- 2. The Evolution of Early Internationalization: A Systematic Literature Review -- 3. Setting the Boundaries -- 4. Pre-founding, Creation, and Early Internationalization -- 5. Internationalization Patterns and Entry Modes -- 6. Resources,...

"Cases in Contemporary Entrepreneurship dives deep into everyday entrepreneurial stories with an engaging narrative, based on theory, while providing practical implications by highlighting diverse entrepreneurial examples in emerging themes. This book provides a collection of concise authentic...

Praxisorientiert und bewährt - die umfassende Einführung in die Grundlagen des Außenhandels.Von den Erscheinungsformen des Außenhandels über Transportwesen, Finanzierung, Recht und Durchführung bis hin zu den Außenhandelsrisiken stellt dieses bewährte Lehrbuch alle wichtigen Teilgebiete...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Overseas Market Research -- Chapter 3. International Trade Contracts -- Chapter 4. Terms of International Trade -- Chapter 5. Payment Collection in International Trade -- Chapter 6. International Transportation -- Chapter 7. Marine Cargo Insurance -- Chapter...

This paper looks at the risk assessment committees of boards of directors, using as the “jumping off point” the article by Richard Cassin in the FCPA Blog : Board-level ‘risk committees’ are great, unless they destroy the company. As Cassin shows, the recent banking failures in the USA...

De-globalization, now a distinct possibility, would induce a significant qualitative shift in strategies, structures, and behaviors observable in international business (IB). Coming to terms with this qualitative shift would require IB research to develop a much deeper integration of politics,...

This paper demonstrates the potential of computer-aided text analysis (CATA) as a technique to operationalize hard-to-measure constructs in international business research, provided that a rigorous set of validity tests is applied. CATA allows performing content analyses on large textual...

"This eagerly awaited update of a popular text has been substantially revised and updated to incorporate developments in the field of International Business. It continues to do so in Alan Sitkin's characteristically direct, lively, and accessible style which is ideal for introductory students....

The global economy as the macro-environment -- Theories of internationalization -- Market entry decisions -- Market entry modes -- The coordination and configuration of global value chains (GVCs) -- The management of the multinational firm.