Managing International Trade And Investment: Casebook

by Debora L Spar

Overview

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive advantage; evaluating diverse political environments and legal structures; considering the impact of currency fluctuations and trading regimes; and understanding widely disparate cultures and business norms. Using the cases presented in this book, instructors can help their students build a framework of analysis that will enable them to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and master the opportunities these represent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860942945
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	07/16/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	8.52(w) x 10.96(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Course Overview     vii
Firms in the Global Economy: The Fundamentals of Trade and Investment
Lenzing AG: Expanding in Indonesia (9-796-099)     3
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993 (9-795-115)     26
Japan's Automakers Face Endaka (9-796-030)     44
Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes (9-288-018)     62
The Rules of the Game: National Policy and Firm Response
Layton Canada (9-796-108)     75
Note on Export Controls (9-384-008)     88
Chiquita Brands International (A) (9-797-015)     92
Toys "R" Us Japan (9-796-077)     114
Note on Foreign Direct Investment (9-795-031)     134
White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry (9-795-022)     147
Note on Political Risk Analysis (9-798-022)     172
Busang (A): River of Gold (9-798-002)     184
Forever: DeBeers and U.S. Antitrust Law (9-700-082)     208
Note on Rules (9-799-013)     233
Rules of the International Level
Regarding NAFTA (9-797-013)     259
Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A) (9-795-070)     273
The Burma Pipeline (9-798-078)     290
Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices (9-700-047)     314
International Trade in the Age ofInformation
Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property (9-392-073)     339
Being There: Sony Corporation and Columbia Pictures (9-795-025)     368
BSkyB (9-798-077)     389
Ruling the Net (HBR Reprint 96309)     408
Network Associates: Securing the Internet (9-799-087)     417
Singapore's Trade in Services (9-796-135)     437