Offers insights into the management of companies operating in an international environment. This book describes the emergence of a revolutionary corporate form - the transnational - and reveals how the nature of the global competitive game has fundamentally changed.

Global Project Management describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in business environments which require distributed skills, around-the-clock operations and virtual team environments. The book goes beyond simple recommendations on collaborative tools, to suggest the development of best practices on cross-cultural team management and global communication, recommend organisational changes and project structures, and propose alternatives for the implementation of the new practices and methods. Filled with real-life examples and techniques, the book illustrates how to apply the recommendations as part of the successful management of any global project.

Sport is both a global business and a vehicle for social inclusion and community development. This book examines key performance areas in sport management that cut across cultural, economic and geographical borders, from both commercial and social justice perspectives. Written by leading sport management and sport development scholars from around the world, the book highlights international management challenges, suggests appropriate management practices, and raises questions to stimulate further debate. From a commercial sport management perspective it explores key topics including the management of sport communication in an age of digital media, crowd funding in sport, managing government and commercial alliances, and managing power and politics in sport. From a social justice perspective, it examines issues including sport volunteer management, the management of sport for inclusion, and academic partnerships in international sport management. Offering an authoritative survey of contemporary international sport management, as well as signposts for future research and practice, this is fascinating reading for all students, researchers and practitioners working in sport management or sport development.

Transnational Management offers a uniquely global focus on strategic development, organizational capabilities and management challenges.

For courses in International Management, Multinational Management, Global Strategy, and Comparative Management. This globally oriented text covers the most current research and trends in International Management. It offers comprehensive and integrative cases that illustrate the actual behaviors and functions required for successful cross-cultural management at the strategic and interpersonal level. - NEW - New E-Biz boxes in each chapter. - Offers students insight into e-business. - NEW - New opening profiles featuring real companies. - Offers students real examples. - Comprehensive coverage of the roles and functions of managers in the global environment. - Provides students with an inside view. - Management Focus boxes. - Brings topics to life for students with real companies and people. - A cultural, behavioral, and strategic emphasis. - Gives students a more realistic picture of international management today. - Coverage of comparative management topics. - Keeps students up to date on key global issues and events. - Internet Exercises are included. - Helps students explore the text content in more detail. - Technology Application boxes. - Keeps students abreast of how technolog

Looking at the question of how firms can compete in a global environment, the authors examine the issues considered central to the study of strategic management in a global context. They deal with a diverse set of important strategic topics by integrating research with practical examples and case studies.

This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world. In this context, the use of the word “new” has two meanings. The first relates to a new definition of borders (which are natural, institutional, functional, or mixed); the second concerns the fact that the book applies (and, where necessary, develops) analytical tools, methods and models that are different from those used in other similar books. The objectives of this book are: to clarify whether existing management theories and methods can be effectively applied in an entity (which can be defined as a sovereign country, a region, a community, a culture, or a firm) as the latter increasingly interacts with the rest of the world; to develop qualitative and quantitative methods to help leaders make optimal decisions for their entity and, at the same time, to maximize the positive (or minimize the negative) effects of those decisions on the rest of the world; and to design workable cross-border cooperation plans and conflict-management schemes that allow policy-makers to better cope with the challenges and problems posed by our increasingly interactive world.