This book illustrates the impact of increasingly prominent global phenomena, such as digitalisation and climate change, on the international activities of both small and large multinationals. As it highlights, extant management research does not fully explain such emergent topics as Internet platforms, digital business models, and the decision-making of cleantech and circular economy companies. This volume serves to fill this lacuna.

The editors and contributors to this volume show how conventional theories of entrepreneurship and business do not fully address the challenges inherent in achieving and sustaining global competitiveness. Over the course of 11 research-based chapters,

Clear, comprehensive and engaging, this core textbook is authored by an established and respected expert in the field and approaches its subject from a truly global perspective, offering in-depth insights into current challenges facing international businesses. The text has been carefully designed to encourage critical reflection and is packed with case studies and innovative learning features to emphasise the links between theory and the real world. The book takes a multidisciplinary, multi-perspective approach, placing International Business in its political, social and ethical context as well as its economic one. This textbook is essential reading for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students studying international business for the first time.

The international community is confronted with a new set of challenges, the scale and complexity of which is virtually unprecedented. In this connection, there are heightened demands for international business research to provide guidance for decision-makers on how to solve actual problems. Impact of International Business addresses current challenges and issues, and provides fresh insights that are pertinent for policy and practice. The book examines various contemporary international business issues from various viewpoints, draws on research conducted in different countries, examines IB issues in both developed and emerging country contexts, offers various theoretical perspectives and different methodologies. It provides both rigorous empirical and conceptual advances and insights that are useful and relevant for managers and policy makers in their search for solutions in face of current challenges posed by the international environment.

Covers the institutional and regional context of the evolution of international business as an academic discipline, international business as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, current issues and controversies, and future directions in education and research in the field. The 13 essays were commissioned from specialists in the field from Europe, North America, and Australia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This work addresses international business with globalization as its underlying theme. By illustrating globalization as a phenomenon that is fundamentally altering corporate strategy, it critiques the complexities of globalization and its impact on international business.

""This book focuses on key external and internal factors that enable or disable the creation and enhancement of success opportunities for firms that wish to expand internationally"--Provided by publisher"--