Global business in the Middle East

W. Abdallah. 2001. Managing Multinationals in the Middle East: Accounting and Tax Issues. Westport, CT: Quorum Press. 279 pages. ISBN 1‐56720‐267‐5. M. Kavoossi. 2001. The Globalization of Business in the Middle East: Opportunities and Constraints. Westport, CT: Quorum Press. 161 pages. ISBN 1‐56720‐203‐9.     

Capitalizing on emerging markets

Miller, R. (1998) Selling to Newly Emerging Markets, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 274 pages, ISBN 1 56720 044 3 Dixon, J. and Newman, D. (1998) Entering the Chinese Market: The Risks and Discounted Rewards, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1 56720 137 7 Bullis, D. (1998) Doing Business in Today's India, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 320 pages, ISBN 1 56720 136 9     

The pleasures,perils, and possibilities of undertaking international business research

Brian Toyne, Zaida L. Martínez, & Richard A. Menger (Eds.). 2001. International Business Scholarship: Mastering Intellectual, Institutional, and Research Challenges. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. ISBN: 1‐56720‐351‐5. Masaaki (Mike) Kotabe & Preet S. Aulakh (Eds.). 2002. Emerging Issues in International Business Research. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 1‐84064‐836‐8.     

Doing business in China: Culture and practice

Ming‐Jer Chen. 2001. Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 234 pages. John B. Stuttard. 2000. The New Silk Road: Secrets of Business Success in China Today. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 144 pages. Yadong Luo. 2000. Strategy, Structure, and Performance of MNCs in China. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 302 pages. Maria Lai‐Ling Lam. 2000. Working With Chinese Expatriates in Business Negotiations: Portraits, Issues, and Applications. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 188 pages.     

The digital revolution

Shapiro, C., & Varian, H.R. (1999). Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Boston: Harvard Business School, ISBN 0‐87584‐863‐X. Tapscott, D., Lowy, A., & Ticoll, D. (1998). Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E‐Business. New York: McGraw Hill, ISBN 0‐07‐063349‐5. Bullis, D. (1999). Preparing for Electronic Commerce in Asia. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, ISBN 1‐56720‐206‐3.     

Entrepreneurship and international business

Henry Wai‐chung Yeung. 2002. Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms: An Institutional Perspective. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 311 pages. ISBN 1‐84064‐734‐5. Victoria E. Bonnell & Thomas B. Gold (Eds.). 2002. The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 357 pages. ISBN 0‐7656‐0775‐1.     

Online/offline (hybrid) consumers and the attention economy

Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Vijay Mahajan, & Robert Gunther. 2002. Convergence Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the New Hybrid Consumer. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 368 pages. ISBN 0‐13065‐075‐7. Thomas H. Davenport & John C. Beck. 2001. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. 272 pages. ISBN 1‐57851‐871‐7.     

Terrorism and business

G. G. S. Suder (Ed.). (2004). Terrorism and the International Business Environment: The Security‐Business Nexus. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 241 pages. ISBN: 1‐84376‐801‐1. B. S. Frey. (2004). Dealing with Terrorism—Stick or Carrot? Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 182 pages. ISBN: 1‐84376‐828‐3. Reviewed by David W. Gillingham     

Business process offshoring: India and the global services revolution

Kaushik Basu (Ed.). 2004. India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 319 pages. ISBN: 0‐262‐02556‐6. Paul Davies. (2004). What's This India Business? Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Global Services Revolution. London: Nicholas Brealey International. 233 pages. ISBN: 1‐904838‐00‐6. Mark Kobayashi‐Hillary. (2004). Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage. Berlin‐Heidelberg: Springer‐Verlag. 275 pages. ISBN: 3‐540‐20855‐0.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Abstract

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT IN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS. Denis Chima E. Ugwuegbu. Westport,CT: Quorum Books (2001). $65.00. ISBN 1-56720-400-7. 296 pp. (In the USA and Canada, thisbook can be ordered by calling toll free 1-800-225-5800). Reviewed by Gillian Rice.

SOUTH AFRICA'S 'BLACK MARKET': HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH AFRICANS. Jeffrey A. Fadiman. Reviewed by William Darley.     

Europe and the world

Michelle Egan. 2001. Constructing a European Market. Standards, Regulation and Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 362 pages; ISBN 0‐9‐24405‐7. Brigid Gavin. 2001. The European Union and Globalization; Towards Global Democratic Governance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 242 pages; ISBN 1‐84064‐005‐7. Patrick A. Messerlin. 2001. Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policies in the 2000s. Washington: Institute for International Economics. 370 pages; ISBN 0‐88132‐273‐3.     

Foreign investment in Russia and China: A long way to go,but reason for optimism

D. LeBaron, with D. Carpenter. 2002. Mao, Marx, and the Market: Capitalist Adventures in Russia and China. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 303 pages; ISBN: 0‐471‐15315‐X. B. Granville & P. Oppenheimer (Eds.). 2001. Russia's Post‐Communist Economy. Oxford, England: University Press. 538 pages; ISBN 0‐19‐829525‐1. H. Fung & K.H. Zhang (Eds.). 2002. Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 302 pages; ISBN: 0‐7656‐0804‐9.     

Dispelling some myths: Uncertain and multiple paths to globalization

Brink Lindsey. 2002. Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 336 pages; ISBN 0‐471‐44277‐1. Peter Hall & David Soskice (Eds.). 2001. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 540 pages; ISBN 0‐199‐24775‐7.     

Economic malaise in Japan: Changing economic order and the future of the U.S.–Japan economic relationship

B. Gao. 2001. Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 300 pages; ISBN 0‐521‐79025‐5. F. Bergsten, T. Ito, & M. Noland. 2001. No More Bashing: Building a New Japan‐United States Economic Relationship. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics. 328 pages; ISBN 0‐88132‐286‐5.     

The European project: Growing pains

Tomasso Padoa‐Schioppa. (2004). The Euro and Its Central Bank. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 260 pages. ISBN: 0‐ 262‐16222‐9. Brendan Brown. (2004). Euro on Trial. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 188 pages. ISBN: 1‐4039‐1284‐X. Helge Berger and Thomas Moutos (Eds.). (2004). Managing European Union Enlargement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 313 pages. ISBN: 0‐262‐02561‐2.     

Book reviews

Professor Paul Joyce
Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Trent University The Leadership Lifecycle Andrew Ward, 2003. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 0‐3339‐9362‐4. £25.00 hardback, 178 pages. Jim Bray
Senior Lecturer in HRD
Department of Management and HR
University of Central England Mediation for Managers: Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Relationships at Work John Crawley and Katherine Graham, 2002. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London, UK and Maine, USA. ISBN: 1‐857‐8831‐5. £14.99 ($19.95 paperback), 227 pages.     

Book review

Bayard, Thomas O., and Kimberly Ann Elliott, Reciprocity and Retaliation in U.S. Trade Policy, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 503 pages.

Rugman, Alan M. (Ed.), Foreign Investment and NAFTA, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994, xii + 340 pages.

Zahra, Shaker A., and Abbas J. Ali (Eds.), The Impact of Innovation and Technology in the Global Marketplace, Binghamton Haworth Press, 1994, 222 pages.

Connolly, Michael, and Jaime de Melo (Eds.), The Effects of Protectionism on a Small Country: The Case of Uruguay, Washington, DC, The World Bank, 1994, 172 pages.

Andersson, Thomas, Managing Trade Relations in the New World Economy, New York: Routledge, 1993, 183 pages.

Rondinelli, Dennis A. (Ed.), Expanding Sino-American Business and Trade: China's Economic Transition, Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1994, ix + 270 pages.

Chukwumeiue, Okezie, Choice of Law and International Commercial Arbitration, Westport, CT: Quorum, 1994, xii + 218 pages.

Welford, Richard, and Kate Prescott (Eds.), European Business: An Issue Based Approach, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia, PA: Trans Atlantic Publishers, Inc., 1994, 384 pages.

Copeland, Laurence, Exchange Rates and International Finance, Second Edition, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994, xiv + 455 pages.

Surajaras, Patchara, and Richard Sweeney, Profit-Making Speculation in Foreign Exchange Markets, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992, 280 pages.

Esty, Daniel C., Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 319 pages.

Scherer, F. M., Competition Policies for an Integrated World Economy, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994, xxii + 133 pages.

Safarian, A. E., Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy: A Study of the Industrial Countries, Hants, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1993, 581 pages.     

The neglected firm

Jorge Vasconcellos e Sà. 2002. The Neglected Firm. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 154 pages; ISBN 0‐333‐98712‐8.     

Book reviews

Successful Product Development: Management Practices in American and British Firms by Axel Johne and Patricia Snelson. (Basil Blackwell Ltd, Oxford, 1990). 240 pages. £29.50. ISBN 0 631 17448 6.

Customer Driven by Linda Silverman Goldzimer (Hutchinson Business Books, London, 1990). 233 pages. £14.95 hardback, ISBN 0 091 74442 3 (csd). £7.99 paperback, ISBN 0 091 74443 1 (ppr).

Marketing for the National Health Service by Rod Sheaff. (The Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1991). £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0 335 15427 1.     

Book Reviews

Caves, Richard E., and Associates, Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, xii + 492 pages.

National Research Council, Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics, Behind the Numbers: U.S. Trade in the World Economy, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1992, xi + 297 pages.

Fischer, Klaus, and George J. Papaioannou (eds.), Business Finance in Less Developed Capital Markets, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992, xi + 391 pages.

Krugman, Paul R., Currencies and Crises, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992, xix + 219 pages.

Howell, Thomas R., Alan Wm. Wolff, Brent L. Bartlett, and R. Michael Gadbaw, Conflict Among Nations: Trade Policies in the 1990s, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992, xiv + 633 pages.

Starr, Martin K., Global Corporate Alliances and the Competitive Edge: Strategies and Tactics for Management, New York: Quorum Books, 1991, xiii + 236 pages.

Liesch, Peter W., Government Mandated Countertrade, Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1991, xv + 172 pages.

Kotabe, Masaaki, Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, and Marketing Interfaces, New York: Quorum Books, 1992, xviii + 237 pages.