International Business Realisms: Globalizing Locally Responsive and Internationally Connected Business Disciplines

International Business Realisms: Globalizing Locally Responsive and Internationally Connected Business Disciplines
Author: A. Arora
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137376465

International Business (IB) is a complex and interdisciplinary field. It encompasses regular currency and political risks alongside fundamental uncertainties and variations in international development, collaboration, social values, and shared objectives. As globalization expands our markets across national boundaries, institutional innovation and experimentation is essential for countries to brand their products globally and develop internationally acclaimed products. The contributors of International Business Realisms analyze instances of interdisciplinary marketing and branding for the global market place and distill practical implications for effective international and domestic marketing.

Global Business Transcendence

Global Business Transcendence
Author: A. Arora
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2014-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137412593

Global Business Transcendence focuses on both empirical studies with practical application and examinations of theoretical and methodological developments in the field of business studies. By drawing on important research and case study material from contributors all over the world, this collection offers genuinely international perspectives on the key issues and concerns preoccupying policy and decision makers, bringing together chapters that examine international business strategies across emerged and emerging economies. The collection argues that country's borders are becoming less important from a trade perspective. We are thus quickly approaching a single global economy.

International Business Realisms: Globalizing Locally Responsive and Internationally Connected Business Disciplines

International Business Realisms: Globalizing Locally Responsive and Internationally Connected Business Disciplines
Author: A. Arora
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781349478576

International Business (IB) is a complex and interdisciplinary field. It encompasses regular currency and political risks alongside fundamental uncertainties and variations in international development, collaboration, social values, and shared objectives. As globalization expands our markets across national boundaries, institutional innovation and experimentation is essential for countries to brand their products globally and develop internationally acclaimed products. The contributors of International Business Realisms analyze instances of interdisciplinary marketing and branding for the global market place and distill practical implications for effective international and domestic marketing.

Advertising Confluence

Advertising Confluence
Author: A. Arora
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137492260

Advertising Confluence offers a unique blend of both traditional and contemporary social media thinking about advertising and integrated brand promotions throughout the world. Dr. Arora Anshu and Dr. Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens bring together articles that analyze creative social advertising in US, France, and Tunisia and offer a wide spectrum of advertising confluence from both the developed and emerging world. Contributors focus on both empirical studies with practical application as well as examinations of theoretical and methodological developments in the field of advertising studies. In all, they examine the wide range of global and local advertising strategies, the depth of integrated marketing communications, and the future of social media advertising.

Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul

Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul
Author: L. Linker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137399880

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707).

Courage in the Twenty-First Century

Courage in the Twenty-First Century
Author: J. Marques
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2013-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137379545

Courage outlines the art of moving forward both in professional and personal life. Marques offers a strategy for self-renewal in order to divulge the virtues and viewpoints to successfully move from one career to another.

Portable Play in Everyday Life: The Nintendo DS

Portable Play in Everyday Life: The Nintendo DS
Author: Samuel Tobin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137396598

People play mobile games everywhere and at any time. Tobin examines this media practice through the players directly using the lens of the players and practice of the Nintendo DS system. He argues for the primacy of context for understanding how digital play functions in today's society, emphasizing location, "killing-time," and mobile communities.

Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy

Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy
Author: M. Pisani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-10-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113733312X

Using original qualitative ethnographic field interviews and quantitative field survey results, Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy explores the rationale for and model of 'off the books' consumption in a borderlands environment.

Okinawa and Jeju: Bases of Discontent

Okinawa and Jeju: Bases of Discontent
Author: D. Kirk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113737909X

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost island prefecture, in ferment over historic US bases; Jeju embroiled over a new South Korean naval base. The people of Okinawa and Jeju share a common fear of bloody conflict again erupting around them and suspect their governments would sacrifice their interests in a much larger war in a fight for regional control between the US, Japan, and China.

Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature

Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature
Author: N. Birns
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137364564

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.