International Management: Text and Cases - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

This book, looking at how firms become and remain international in scope, has been used in hundreds of universities and colleges in over twenty countries. Focusing on issues of international management common and important to business people everywhere, it is about the experiences of firms of all sizes, from many countries and regions, as they come to grips with an increasingly competitive global environment when a home-market perspective is no longer enough to achieve and sustain success. The authors, four highly-experienced international business teachers and researchers, offer an integrated text and casebook which has been constantly refined and updated for over a decade. - This edition includes 19 new classroom-tested cases from leading case producing institutions such as Ivey, Thunderbird and IMD. - Three new chapters (Ethics; Managing the Global Workforce and Strengthening International Government Relations) have been added to this edition. - Coverage includes the latest issues and trends facing multinational enterprises from a general manager's or subsidiary manager's perspective.

Biografía del autor

Paul W. Beamish is the Donald Triggs Canada Research Chair in International Business at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, articles, contributed chapters, and teaching cases. His articles have appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Organization Science, and elsewhere. He has received best research awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business (AIB). In 1997 and 2003, he was recognized in the Journal of International Management as one of the top three contributors worldwide to the international strategic management literature in the previous decade. He served as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS from 199397. He worked for Procter & Gamble and Wilfrid Laurier University before joining Ivey's faculty in 1987.

He has supervised 25 doctoral dissertations, many involving international joint ventures and alliances. His consulting, management training, and joint venture facilitation activities have been in both the public and private sector.

At Ivey, he has taught in a variety of school programs, including the Executive MBA offered at its campus in Hong Kong. From 19992004, he served as Associate Dean of Research. He currently serves as Director of Ivey Publishing, the distributor of Ivey's collection of over 2,400 current cases; Ivey's Asian Management Institute (AMI); and the cross-enterprise center, Engaging Emerging Markets.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Royal Society of Canada, and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.