The Global Environment of Business is
CURRENT. It covers
• Financialization – essential for understanding the roots of the current economic crisis.
• Regionalization – is the emergence of regional production networks and trade blocs more important than globalization?
• Varieties of capitalism – how differences in political, social and corporate systems in Europe, East Asia and the Americas underpin countries’ competitive strengths (and weaknesses).
• Clusters – when and how can localized networks of SMEs compete internationally?
• Poverty traps – why have some parts of the world stayed so poor?
• Climate change – how will efforts to manage greenhouse gasses affect international business?
RIGOROUS
• Presents, in context, important theoretical tools from economics, political science, and business studies: international trade, transactions costs, agency, organizational capabilities, markets and organizations as information systems, international hegemony, state autonomy, collective action problems, adverse selection, long waves, social capital, regulation of socio-economic systems, effects of different electoral systems on inter-generational bargains … and more.
• Provides historical, technological and political context essential for understanding the international business environment today.
• Engages directly with the research literature: not received wisdom, but live debate.
AND CLEAR.
Read it, and you’ll see.