International Business: Challenges and Choices

9780199533916 - International Business: Challenges and Choices by Alan; Bowen, Nick Sitkin

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In today's increasingly connected world, international business plays an integral role in day-to-day life. This textbook offers a refreshingly critical approach to international business, examining both good and bad practice and encouraging readers to question and challenge classic assumptions and theories.

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Drawing on a range of vivid case examples and insights from small businesses to large multinational companies, readers are provided with a realistic depiction of the challenges and opportunities international business can present. Importantly, this book adopts a truly international approach and includes an abundance of examples from developed and emerging countries alike. DVD featuring video clips of international business practitioners from the textbook Instructor's manual Additional case studies Seminar and discussion questions Ideas for oral presentations Project tasks PowerPoint slides Test-bank of questions Case study questions and indicative answers Access to integrated extension material recommended to students throughout the text For students: Interactive Map Online glossary of terms Guidance on critical skills thinking Self-test true-false questions Key websites Revision tips Additional case studies Case study questions and answers Extension material, carefully integrated with the textbook, to expand students' knowledge.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: CHALLENGES AND CHOICES

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The impact of differences in national cultures on key functional areas: HRM policy and practice and marketing strategy and tactics. The organisation of the Multinational enterprise: International production choices and challenges.

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Future trends and challenges. By the end of the module students should be able to demonstrate: Knowledge and understanding of how national cultures may vary and the potential impact of such differences on organisational behaviour and the management of the MNE. A capacity to discuss the challenges and choices associated with managing the human resource management function within the MNE in relation to expatriation, including the selection, training and development of expatriate mangers.

Knowledge and understanding of the requirements for effectively managing the balance between global co-ordination and control and local responsiveness in relation to development and implementation of global marketing strategy. A capacity to evaluate the requirements for selecting the optimal formal organisational structure for multinational enterprises in increasingly dynamic and complex markets.

Summary International business : challenges and choices

The module adopts a 'blended' learning approach, whereby a combination of classroom based activities, guest lectures from practitioners, directed reading and independent and interdependent learning tasks are utilised to follow an action and experiential approach to the development of module participants knowledge and understanding and development of key employability skills.

Specifically, the lectures, will introduce the students to the key challenges and choices associated with successful cross-cultural management. Specifically, the aim in lectures is to raise participants' knowledge, awareness of and sensitivity to the comparative differences in national cultures, industrial relations environments, leadership issues, alternative corporate cultures workforce attitudes, lifestyle patterns, leadership styles and communication problems stemming from international business operations.

The student centred seminars in part one build on the lectures by facilitating a more in-depth examination on the part of participants in relation to the importance of understanding the types of challenge and choices facing the management of international business organisations, and the relevance of national and organisational differences impacting on the success of MNEs Multinational Enterprises.

International Business

The assessment strategy will include a combination of formative and summative assessment utilised as a means of optimising student development and feedback, via performance bench-marking, on-line quizzes, group presentations and a summative coursework. The recommended textbook s for the module is: Indicative Further Reading includes: A Strategic Approach, 4 th ed.

Global and Transnational Business.

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