Mark J. Hooper

The Global Business Handbook (eBook, PDF)

The Eight Dimensions of International Management
Redaktion: Newlands, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Global Business Handbook is based on the structure of the very successful IÃ0/00SEG International School of Management's programme on international management. Concentrating on the big developments that are currently happening internationally, the book considers how managers operating in the global business landscape must change what they do to create advantages and remain competitive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 612
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317030317
• Artikelnr.: 44863867

Autorenporträt

David J. Newlands has been the Director for the Visiting Professor Programme at IÃ0/00SEG School of Management, France. This comprises a set of more than ninety intensive modules that are taken as electives. Dr Newlands identifies and recruits professors for this programme and is an active researcher. He specialises in change management, purchasing, supplier development, supply chain dynamics, costing, product design and methods to maximise profit. He has written extensively for professional journals in the operations management field. He has given invited lectures and run supply chain games in Europe, The United States, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Mark J. Hooper is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. Dr Hooper's main areas of research include operations management, change management, supply chain and agile manufacturing. He is a visiting Professor at the IÃ0/00SEG, France and at the University of Monterrey, Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The 8 dimensions of international business, David J. Newlands and Mark J. Hooper; Dimension 1 International Perspectives: International business - operating abroad, David Trigg and Marie C. Trigg; International strategy management, Mark J. Hooper; International business ethics, David Kimber and Fran Siemensma. Dimension 2 Relationship Management: Inter-firm collaboration and partnering: a key competence to satisfy demand, Maria Veludo; International negotiation, Brooks C. Holtom. Dimension 3 Supply Chain Management: Social and environmental management, Mark J. Hooper with Alkiviadis Tromaras; Managing mergers and acquisitions, Zoltán Antal-Mokos; Supply chain management, Douglas MacBeth; International purchasing management, David J. Newlands; Reverse logistics, Isabel Fernández. Dimension 4 Regional and Country Specific Differences: Human resource management's relationship to company performance, Nada Zupan; International human resource management, Hedley Malloch; Employment relations in a global networked economy, Sandra Jones; Human resources management practices within Japanese companies, Peter Firkola. Dimension 5 Marketing and Sales: Doing business in Western Europe, Simon A. Mercado; Doing business in NAFTA, Coral R. Snodgrass; Direct marketing - a global perspective, Tim Lyons; Retail merchandising and sales promotions, Mayo de Juan Vigaray and Beyza Gültekin; Services marketing: an overview and relational approach of the B2B setting, Ruben Chumpitaz and Nicholas G. Paparoidamis. Dimension 6 Cost Management: Strategic cost management, Roby B. Sawyers; Strategic management of not-for-profit organizations, Steve Molloy. Dimension 7 Innovation and Quality: The quality management situation - an introduction, Kevin Laframboise; Technology and innovation management, David J. Newlands; Managing knowledge strategically, Sandra Jones; Tacit knowledge and implicit learning, Keith Dawes. Dimension 8 Business Transformation: Service operations manageme

Rezensionen

'The Global Business Handbook provides a unique and valuable resource to business, academics and practitioners who seek to inform their understanding of the challenges presented by operating in a Global Economy. The Handbook equips the reader with insights, tools and techniques provided by first class contributors that represent a diverse range of disciplines and who present a truly Global approach to understanding the strategies required for business to effectively compete in modern economies. Importantly, the topics covered in the Handbook are timely and consider emerging priorities that will face all Businesses including Environmental and Social Management, Change Management and competing on the International Stage. ' David Fitzgerald, EcoMarketing Group 'In an increasingly global business and academic marketplace where understanding some very practical issues about how to prepare for and practice management that delivers sustainable value for shareholders, employees, communities, stakeholders and managers themselves in multiple international markets at once, this book makes an important contribution and is very welcome.' - Craig Tapper, Coordinator Strategic Management of Business & Technology, Australian School of Business at the University of NSW