International Business, 4th edition

We live in a global economy in which over one quarter of the world’s recorded output is exported, where a change in business practice in Beijing can have a direct impact on a workforce in Birmingham, and where support to a customer in Detroit can be provided from Delhi.

International Business provides a clear and concise introduction to this most interdisciplinary of subjects, explaining in straightforward language the economic and financial underpinnings of international business, and the more subtle organisational and cultural issues increasingly crucial to business success. The managerial challenges which face organisations of all types and sizes, no matter where they are located, are reviewed and explored.

Hallmark Features

• There is a full range of interactive questions (with solutions) and other teaching supportmaterials in the lecturer encrypted website to accompany this text
• Throughout the text you will find up-to-date case materials to illustrate many of the inter-national issues involved. A number of questions will help direct your thoughts to some of the principles underpinning the facts and events presented in each case study.
• In a similar vein, you will also find a number of ‘pause for thought’ sections within the text of each chapter. A number of ‘Boxes’ are presented to take further some of the analysis presented in the text. You can find full details of any sources referenced within each chapter in the References section at the end of the text

New to this Edition

For this fourth edition all data, empirical and case study materials and analysis have beenthoroughly updated and revised with a large number of entirely new cases integrated within the text. On occasion the text has been further developed to reflect contemporary debate, as with the more detailed scrutiny of the international financial system and associated accounting conventions and standards in Chapter 10.