Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
About the Book Series
As ever-increasing proportion of the world's business takes place across national borders, the need to understand the motive forces behind international business becomes greater. Transnationals are now, in many cases, as important as national governments in shaping trade flows and economic trends. As this series demonstrates, international business is not just the preserve of the largest companies, but impacts on all aspects of business and economic activity. This series is essential reading for policy makers as well as researchers in international business and applied international economics.
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Geopolitical Challenges in the Global Market
1st Edition
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By Mark Thomas, Muriel Durand, Kathleen Marshall Park, Sniazhana Diduc
September 04, 2025
In an era marked by unprecedented geopolitical uncertainty, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Geopolitical Challenges in the Global Market explores the intricate ways global events shape the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). From the COVID-19 pandemic to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and ...
Japan and the Rise of China: Power Dynamics and Business Relations
1st Edition
By Ferguson Evans
June 27, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive study of Japan’s evolving relationship with China since 1949, tracing the shifting dynamics from a distant relationship during the early communist era to a more cooperative phase in the late 20th century, and finally to the growing tensions of the 21st century. ...
The Consumer Co-operative Sector: International Perspectives on Strategic Renewal
1st Edition
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By John F. Wilson, Anthony Webster, Espen Ekberg, Samuli Skurnik
May 05, 2025
Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English ...
Business Impacts of COVID-19: International Business, Crisis Management, and the Global Economy
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Bernat, Joanna Duda
November 28, 2024
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused serious disruptions to the economy and business activities. The COVID-19 crisis has also exposed important weaknesses in business and supply chains. It pointed to specific sectors of the economy, primarily related to services, that suffered the...
Management Research, International Business, and National Culture: Evaluating Hofstede and GLOBE
1st Edition
By Sunil Venaik, Paul Brewer, David Midgley
November 28, 2024
Why do different groups of people behave in different ways when dealing with the common challenges of human life? The answer often lies in their cultural attitudes, values, and consequent behaviours. The study of human culture has been deemed a key contribution to understanding human life for many ...
Global Mindset and International Business: Driving Process Outsourcing Organizations
1st Edition
By Magdalena Kossowska-Lai, Jerzy Rosiński
October 04, 2024
Global mindset is an emerging concept, influenced by globalization, that can support companies’ growth in international settings and help develop a more effective, skilled workforce that can be open and adaptable. This book presents an analysis of current global mindset knowledge and explores how ...
International Business and Culture: Challenges in Cross-Cultural Marketing and Management
1st Edition
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By Małgorzata Bartosik-Purgat, Monika Guzek
June 14, 2024
International Business and Culture: Challenges in Cross-Cultural Marketing and Management explores the intricate relationship between culture and business, offering valuable insights for both practitioners and scholars. The authors delve into the profound impact of cultural dimensions on various ...
International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Contexts, Behaviours, and Successful Entry
1st Edition
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By Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Leo-Paul Dana
May 27, 2024
International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Contexts, Behaviours, and Successful Entry aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of international entrepreneurship in emerging markets. This collection of prominent, context-based chapters focuses on entrepreneurial activities in SMEs and ...
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries
1st Edition
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By Mark Thomas, Janna L. Rose
April 05, 2024
Covid-19 has brought so much uncertainty, but one certainty is that the vaccine race will generate winners and losers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. This will have a major impact on merger and acquisition activity. While the plethora of merger and acquisition deals are ...
Cultural Spaces in International Business: Theories and Applications
1st Edition
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By Taran Patel, Ahmad M. Salih
January 29, 2024
Culture studies in international business are passing through difficult times of scrutiny and critique. This is due to the fact that the paradigms, approaches, and methods used so far to study culture have been limited in their scope. For several decades now, approaches that consider national ...
Science, Business and Universities: Cooperation, Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
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By Joanna Duda, Tomasz Bernat
January 29, 2024
Cooperation between science and business (S2B cooperation) is a very important issue from the points of view of the domestic economy, companies, and universities. This is mainly because such cooperation is a catalyst for faster and reliable development – not only of enterprises, but also of the ...
The Oil Business and the State: National Energy Companies and Government Ownership
1st Edition
By Øystein Noreng
May 31, 2023
National oil companies are big business with about 80 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves, and they are crucial to the world’s energy supplies. They are giants, some of the world’s largest companies, measured by market capitalisation, cash flow and investment. Little is known about ...