This volume, published in association with the UK chapter of the Academy of International Business, again contains a number of contributions from leading academics. The book looks at the environmental influences on internationalisation and considers the strategic options available to firms

The world and humanity are changing at an unprecedented rate. This book explores the processess that underlie this changing but coherent canvas. What is fuelling them? What is driving them? Can we control them? Mankind has always found ways to order life so as to reduce uncertainty and has sought to enhance the wellbeing of individuals, peoples and nations. In the modern and postmodern world, business and enterprise play a big role. Their tendency towards globalization needs to be understood and harnessed, not opposed out of hand or wished away, particularly because the tendency has not yet...

Presents analysis, examples, and ideas about the future in a lively yet academically robust format. The book presents the ethical leadership dilemmas of day-to-day international business life in all their complexity, providing a range of angles, options and ideas to feed a questioning mind.

Europe, 2055. The former revolutionaries that promised justice and equality have, over the years,
turned into a corrupt, self-serving gang. Distracting their citizens with prostitutes and mindless
entertainment, it is they who rule the city-state of Eutopia at the heart of the old continent. Yet,
a threat is rising. Outside its walls is the enemy clan of the Cynn, led by the strange Tibetan
warrior monk, Master Dathul, who has long dreamed of freeing his people from the oppression
of Eutopia.

Preparing for war, Dathul sends an advance party to...