Over the past few years, China has transformed itself into a powerful, consumer-oriented culture, and many Western companies have flocked to China to take advantage of this new marketplace. However, entrepreneurs from the United States and Western countries often fail to realize that transacting business in China is a far cry from making deals at [...]
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New book summary available for Doing Business in China
Posted in Book Summaries, Business Strategy, Global Business, tagged business strategy, China, global business, Ted Plafker on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New book summary available for Superfusion
Posted in Book Summaries, Global Business, tagged China, economy, global market, Zachary Karabell on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past two decades, the Chinese and American economies have developed a symbiotic relationship with one another. China has become the United States’ largest creditor, while the American and multinational companies that went to China in the late 1980s and 1990s have developed a new international system of trade, production, and capital flows. The [...]
New book summary available for The Distance Manager
Posted in Book Summaries, Communication, Global Business, Leadership and Management, Project Management, Teamwork, tagged distance managing, global teams, Kimball Fisher, leading remotely, Mareen Duncan Fisher, McGraw-Hill, remote teams on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With an increasing number of employees working outside the central workplace, direct control over members of a project team is a thing of the past. In The Distance Manager, authors Kimball Fisher and Mareen Duncan Fisher have created a practical guide for employers and managers on how to get the most out of off-site employees and [...]
New book summary available for Managing Across Cultures
Posted in Book Summaries, Global Business, tagged Charlene M. Solomon, culture, diversity, global, McGraw-Hill, Michael S. Schell on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s business world has become so interconnected that most businesspeople now regularly work with colleagues, customers, or suppliers from other cultures. Not everyone in the world shares American attitudes toward the workplace, however, and learning how to recognize, read, and adapt to cultural signals is essential to succeeding in today’s global business marketplace. In Managing Across [...]
Google’s Global Values
Posted in Global Business, Integrity and Values, tagged China, global, Google, integrity, values on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Google has recently decided to relocate its China operations to Hong Kong and has since rerouted online traffic from its censored Chinese language portal (www.google.cn) to an uncensored Hong Kong site. This move has angered the Chinese government and many of its citizens, but has also been hailed by many Chinese as a positive step [...]
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