Now readers can bypass the complex Pinyin system in favor of user-friendly words and sentences provided in straightforward phonetic English. Packed with humorous slang and favorite Chinese idioms, this text provides the means to communicate in fresh, contemporary Mandarin at only a glance. (Foreign Language--Dictionaries/Phrasebooks)

Written from an international perspective, this book provides a practical, insightful, and comprehensive guide for both brick-and-mortar and dot-com companies to address the challenges of building and managing productive e-partnerships through a systematic inquiry into the nature and processes of e-partnering.

Drawing upon the outcomes of the principal studies of entrepreneurship and innovation, Entrepreneurship and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective opens up a new field of debate and research about the role of these two areas in the e-world. This book develops and explores theoretical constructs and the working concepts of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation through comprehensive and collective studies conducted by a number of researchers and practitioners with e-business and management expertise.

It has become a widely-recognized fact that entrepreneurs and information technology have become the backbone of the world economy. The increasing penetration of IT in society and in most of industries/businesses, as well as the joining forces of entrepreneurship and innovation in the economy, reinforce the need for a leading and authoritative research handbook to disseminate leading edge findings about entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of IT from an international perspective. Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents current studies on the nature, process...