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ISBN-13: 978-1259852732

ISBN-10: 1259852733

9781259685224, 9781259852800

Cover -- Connect -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Brief Contents -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Letter to Students -- Story of the Learning Program -- Module Walkthrough -- Student-Focused Features -- Delivering Results: Learning and Teaching Resources -- Course Design and Delivery -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Module 1: The Challenging Context of International Business -- What Is International Business and What Is Different about It? -- The Influence of External and Internal Environmental Forces -- The Domestic Environment -- The Foreign Environment -- The International Environment Is Internationalization of Business a New Trend, and Will It Continue? -- The Growth of International Firms and International Business -- Expanding Number of International Companies -- Foreign Direct Investment and Exporting Are Growing Rapidly -- What Is Driving the Internationalization of Business? -- Political Drivers -- Technological Drivers -- Market Drivers -- Cost Drivers -- Competitive Drivers -- What Are the Arguments for and against the Globalization of Business? -- Concerns with Globalization -- Arguments Supporting Globalization -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Critical Thinking Questions Research Task -- Minicase -- Notes -- Module 2: International Trade and Investment -- International Trade -- Volume of International Trade -- How Evenly Has Trade Grown? -- Which Nations Account for the Most Exports and Imports? -- Direction of Trade -- The Increasing Regionalization of Trade -- Major Trading Partners: Their Relevance for Managers -- Major Trading Partners of the United States -- Explaining Trade: International Trade Theories -- Mercantilism -- Theory of Absolute Advantage -- Theory of Comparative Advantage -- How Exchange Rates Can Change the Direction of Trade Some Newer Explanations for the Direction of Trade -- Summary of International Trade Theory -- Foreign Investment -- Portfolio Investment -- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) -- Does Trade Lead to FDI? -- Explaining FDI: Theories of International Investment -- Monopolistic Advantage Theory -- Strategic Behavior Theory -- Internalization Theory -- Dynamic Capabilities Theory -- Eclectic Theory of International Production -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Critical Thinking Questions -- Research Task -- Minicase -- Notes -- Module 3: Sociocultural Forces -- What Is Culture and Why Is It Important? Culture Affects All Business Functions -- Marketing -- Human Resources -- Production and Procurement -- Accounting and Finance -- Preferred Leadership Styles -- How Culture Shows Itself -- Aesthetics -- Religion -- Material Culture -- Language -- Societal Organization -- Special Focus: Gift Giving in Business -- Culture Frameworks -- Hall's High and Low Context -- Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's Cultural Orientations Framework -- Hofstede's Six Dimensions -- Trompenaars's Seven Dimensions -- When Does Culture Matter? The Global Mind-Set -- Going Forward: Cultural Paradoxes and a Caution

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