Authors:Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, Haiyan Wang,
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: global, competitive, advantage, presence, transforming, dominance, quest
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-21
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0470194405
ISBN-13: 9780470194409
Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang are among the most distinguished experts in the field of globalization. In The Quest for Global Dominance they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and maintain its position as a globally dominant player, executives must ensure that their company leads its industry in the following four essential tasks: Identifying market opportunities worldwide and pursuing them by establishing the necessary presence in all key markets Converting global presence
Author: John-Ren Che
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: global, institutions, international, governance, series, markets, players, multinational, enterprises
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2004-12-30
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1843768755
ISBN-13: 9781843768753
This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The analysis, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on the corporate governance of MNEs and to what extent their management takes into account the negative effects of their activities. Also discussed are; how nation states and international institutions control the activities of MNEs, and how the role and strategies of international institutions can be changed to minimise any negative effects without
Authors:Sandra Jean Maclean, David R. Black, Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: global, security, changing, world, multilateralisms, governance, human, decade, new
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2006-11
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754647730
ISBN-13: 9780754647737
This book investigates innovations in the advancement of the human security agenda over the past decade and identifies themes and processes around which consensus for future policy action might be built. This volume: elaborates the on-going debates regarding the human security agenda; considers prospects and projects for the advancement of human security; and, addresses issues of human security as emerging forms of new multilateralisms. Human Security has been advanced as an alternative to traditional state-based conceptualizations of security, yet controversies about the use and abuse of the
Author: Chiara Oldani
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: global, series, finance, derivatives, governing
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754674649
ISBN-13: 9780754674641
"Governing Global Derivatives" analyses the role of the most important financial innovation of the last two decades in a global dimension. The evolution of derivatives, especially Over the Counter (OTC), and the possibility of managing risks tailored to customers’ needs, are the basic recipe of ingredients for the success of derivatives. This book focuses on the role of derivatives from a macroeconomic point of view, considering how monetary theory and policy, fiscal policy and the growth process are affected. It fills a gap by rethinking the way financial markets are considered in the m
Author: Ann E. Robertson
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: global, file, facts, security, terrorism, issues
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-06
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 081606766X
ISBN-13: 9780816067664
Author: Hans Kng
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: global, economics, ethic, politics
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-04-16
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195122283
ISBN-13: 9780195122282
As the twentieth century draws to a close and the rush to globalization gathers momentum, political and economic considerations are crowding out vital ethical questions about the shape of our future. Now, Hans Kung, one of the world’s preeminent Christian theologians, explores these issues in a visionary and cautionary look at the coming global society. How can the new world order of the twenty first century avoid the horrors of the twentieth? Will nations form a real community or continue to aggressively pursue their own interests? Will the Machiavellian approaches of the past prevail o
Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: global, leadership, domination, choice
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2004-03-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0465008003
ISBN-13: 9780465008001
America must make a historic choice: Will it strive to dominate the world, or lead it? American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today’s world, and the source of its most difficult dilemmas. America’s historically unprecedented power is the ultimate source of global security, yet Americans feel less secure than ever. Global interdependence and the widespread political awakening of humankind promote American dominance even as they breed anti-American envy, mobilize global resentment, and empower America’s enemies through the diffusion of ever m
