International Business Environments and Operations

This best seller just got better! John Daniels & Lee Radebaugh share their first-hand knowledge of international business through this new edition of their market leading text. These highly respected authors travel the world to discover real-world examples for their chapter-opening & closing cases, their colorful cultural insights, & their provocative ethical dilemmas. New to this edition is the PASSPORT TO THE WEB, which brings the home pages of companies & international organizations from around the world directly to you & your students. With the updating & enhancing of the map atlas & map index, International Business 8e continues to be the right book for the cutting edge of global business. Features Known as the book that defined the International Business course, this textbook thoroughly discusses the differences faced in international environments, the overall strategies that companies can take, & the functional alternatives for operating abroad. Cited as having the widest coverage of all International Business textbooks, the eighth edition features several enhancements to make learning (& teaching!) more interesting. * New WEB SITE with hyperlinks to home page of companies discussed in the opening & closing cases of each chapter, various governmental & publication home pages, Internet tutorial sources, & geography sites. * New Chapter Opening Cases including Pizza Hut in Brazil, Avon, Cran Chile, Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria, Crystal Lake Manufacturing & NAFTA, & U.S. & Cuban Trade. * New examples include: 1996 Israeli election & Benjamin Netanyahu & 1996 Saudi-Arabian bombings. * New coverage of internalization process added to each chapter. * Provocative "Ethical Dilemmas & Social Responsibility" appear in every chapter. * More maps (over 50) than the competition, including a map atlas & map index highlighting each country's major language, population, primary religion, capital, currency, GNP per capita & other significant attributes. * Extensively revised strategy chapters with coverage of collaborative strategies, geographic strategies & control strategies in the internationalization process & the multinational enterprise of direct investment, geographic strategy, & the impact of the multinational enterprise.