The Global Environment of Business

Zusatztext This is really the best textbook for a graduate student who studies the world economy. I will use it in my course. Informationen zum Autor Frederick Guy is a lecturer in the Department of Management at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was born in San Francisco. He received his BS in the Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California at Berkeley, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He worked for ten years as a manager, director, and management consultant for consumer cooperatives in food retailing, wholesaling, and housing, and for two years as a researcher at Cambridge University's Centre for Business Research. He has been with the Department of Management at Birkbeck College, University of London, since 1997. He lives in London with his wife and son. Klappentext The globalization of business activity: whether you love it or hate it! it affects you. What causes it! how different countries deal with it! and what the future might hold for it are all key questions which The Global Environment of Business answers. Zusammenfassung The globalization of business activity: whether you love it or hate it, it affects you. What causes it, how different countries deal with it, and what the future might hold for it are all key questions which The Global Environment of Business answers.

Auteur
Frederick Guy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was born in San Francisco. He received his BS in the Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California at Berkeley, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He worked for ten years as a manager, director, and management consultant for consumer cooperatives in food retailing, wholesaling, and housing, and for two years as a researcher at Cambridge University's Centre for Business Research. He has been with the Department of Management at Birkbeck College, University of London, since 1997. He lives in London with his wife and son.

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The globalization of business activity: whether you love it or hate it, it affects you. What causes it, how different countries deal with it, and what the future might hold for it are all key questions which The Global Environment of Business answers.

Contenu

• Part I: Background: Technology, Business Organization, and Politics

• 1: High Fixed Costs, Mass Production, and the Origins of the Large Corporation

• 2: Globalization Comes and Goes: the End of Free Trade in the Late 19th Century

• 3: Mass Production and Lean Production

• Part II: Globalization

• 4: Globalization

• Part III: Different Ways of Doing Business

• 5: Clusters: Location in the Global Economy

• 6: Varieties of Capitalism

• 7: Up From Poverty: Some Issues in Economic Development

• Part IV: The future

• 8: Regionalism, the Natural Environment, and the End of Global Market Liberalization