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

Official Reserves and Currency Management in Asia: Myth, Reality and the Future: Geneva Reports on the World Economy 7 by HANS GENBERG, ROBERT McCAULEY, YUNG CHUL PARK and AVINASH PERSAUD (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2005), pp. 128, £25.00 paperback, ISBN 1 898128 90 1. Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Prospects for Pro‐Poor Economic Development by ANTHONY SHORROCKS and ROLPH VAN DER HOEVEN (eds.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 283, paperback, ISBN 0 19 928824 2. Competition and Growth: Reconciling Theory and Evidence by PHILIPPE AGHION and RACHEL GRIFFITH (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), pp. 104, £18.50 hardback, ISBN 0 262 01218 9. The World Trade Organization. A Very Short Introduction by AMRITA NARLIKAR (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 175, £6.99, paperback, ISBN 0 19 280608 4.     

Book Review

Kindleberger, Charles P., The International Economic Order: Essays on Financial Crisis and International Public Goods, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, xi + 235 pages.

Root, Franklin R., International Trade and Investment (6th ed.), Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Publishing Co., 1990, viii + 696 pages.

Krugman, Paul, Rethinking International Trade, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, viii + 282 pages.

Schmiegelow, Michele, and Henrik Schmiegelow, Strategic Pragmatism: Japanese Lessons in the Use of Economic Theory, New York: Praeger, 1989, 212 pages.

Lynn, Leonard H., and Timothy J. McKeown, Organizing Business: Trade Associations in America and Japan, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1988, xviii +191 pages.

Patterson, Seymour, The Microeconomics of Trade, Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1989, vii + 223 pages.

Whalley, John, The Uruguay Round and Beyond—Final Report from the Ford Foundation Project on Developing Countries and the Global Trading System, Ann Arbor: MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1989, xi + 211 pages.

Baumol, William J., Edward N. Wolff, and Sue Anne Batey Blackman, Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989, x + 395 pages.

Carter, Barry E., International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988, xiv + 290 pages.

Dornbusch, Rudiger, The Road to Economic Recovery: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on International Debt, Background Paper, New York: Priority Press, 1989, vi + 123 pages.

Edwards, Sebastian, Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation and Adjustment, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989, xi + 371 pages.     

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.     

Book review

Thomas, Vinod, John Nash, and associates, Best Practices in Trade Policy Reform, Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 1991, xiii + 226 pages.

Turner, Charlie G., Japan's Dynamic Efficiency in the Global Market: Trade, Investment, and Economic Growth, New York: Quorum Books, 1991, xiv + 177 pages.

de Melo, Jaime, and David Tarr, A General Equilibrium Analysis of US Foreign Trade Policy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, pp. xviii + 289.

McGarry, Michael J., and Andrew Schmitz, The World Grain Trade: Grain Marketing, Institutions, and Policies, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992, xx + 511 pages.

Islam, Shafiqul (ed.), Yen for Development: Japanese Foreign Aid and the Politics of Burden Sharing, New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1991, xii + 243 pages.

Heckscher, Eli, and Bertil Ohlin, Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, x + 222 pages (translated, edited, and introduced by Harry Flam and M. June Flanders).     

Book review

Aliber, Robert Z., The Multinational Paradigm, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, 282 pages.

Jerome, Robert W. (Ed.), World Trade at the Crossroads, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992, 290 pages.

Walters, Robert S. (Ed.), Talking Trade: U.S. Policy in International Perspective, Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 159 pages.

Murray, Geoffrey, Doing Business in China, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 350 pages.

Schutte, Hellmut (Ed.), The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 379 pages.     

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.     

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.     

Book Reviews

Geography and Trade by PAUL KRUGMAN (Cambridge MA, London, MIT Press, 1991), pp. xi and 142, £15.95 hardback, ISBN 0 262 11159 4. Reforming Central and Eastern European Economies — Initial Results and Challenges by VITTORIO CORBO, FABRIZIO CORICELLI and JAN BOSSAK (eds.), (Washington: The World Bank, 1991, obtainable in the UK from Microinfo Ltd., Po Box 3, Omega Park, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 2PG) pp. xiv and 299, ISBN 0 8213 1893 4. Financial Enterprise in South Africa Since 1950 by STUART JONES (ed.), (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. xiv and 316, ISBN 0 333 52412 8. Commodities in Crisis by ALFRED MAIZELS (Oxford, New York, The Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. xviii and 307, £35.000 hardback, ISBN 0 19 828387 An Economic Analysis of the EC by JØRGEN ULFF-MØLLER NIELSON, HANS HEINRICH and JØRGEN DRUD HANSEN (London, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), pp. xiii and 247, £17.95 softback, ISBN 0 07 707422 X. Economic Integration and Financial Liberalization, Prospects for Southern Europe by HEATHER D. GIBSON and EUCLID TSAKALOTOS (eds.), (Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1992), pp. xiv and 209, ISBN 0 333 54444 7. Dynamic International Oil Markets, Oil Market Developments and Structure 1860–1990 by COBY VAN DER LINDE (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1992), pp. 224, Dfl 165.00, US $94.00, £56.00 hardback, ISBN 0 7923 1478 6. GATT and Conflict Management, A Transatlantic Strategy for a Stronger Regime by REINHARD RODE (ed.), (Oxford: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 125, US $28.50, £18.95 softback, ISBN 0 8133 7967 9.     

Learning about corruption: Reviews,roots, and Russia

R. Rose‐Ackerman. 1999. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 266 pages. ISBN 0‐521‐63293‐5. R. Neild. 2002. Public Corruption: The Dark Side of Social Evolution. London: Anthem Press. 250 pages. ISBN 1‐84331‐065‐1. D. E. Hoffman. 2002. The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. New York: Public Affairs. 567 pages. ISBN 1‐58648‐001‐4.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Book reviews

The Internationalization of the Firm edited by Peter J. Buckley and Pervez Ghauri (Academic Press, London, 1993). 371 pages. £16.95. ISBN 0 566 02516 7.

Practical Marketing Research by Neil B. Holbert and Mark W. Speece (Prentice‐Hall, Í993). 302 pages. Paperback £16.95. ISBN 0 13 145954 6.     

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     

Book Reviews

The United States and the Politicization of the World Bank, BARTRAM S. BROWN (London, New York: Kegan Paul International Ltd, 1992), pp. xvii & 295, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 7103 0424 4. Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, IAN GOLDIN and ALAN WINTERS (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xxi & 320, £35.00, US $59.95 hardback, ISBN 0 521 42056 3. Current Issues in Development Economics, V.N. BALASUBRAMANYAM and S. LALL (eds.) (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991), pp. xii & 287, £40.00 hardback, £12.50 softback, ISBN 0 333 51323 1 and IBSN 0 333 51324 X. International Financial Markets, Integration, Efficiency and Expectations, JEROME L. STEIN (Oxford, Cambridge, MA: 1992), pp. x & 159, £30.00 hardback, ISBN 1 55786 230 3. Tax Policy in Developing Countries, JAVAD KHALILZADEH-SHIRAZI and ANWAR SHAH (Washington: The World Bank, 1991, obtainable in the UK from Microinfo Ltd, PO Box 3, Omega Park, Alton, Hampshire GU34 2PG), pp. xxiv & 252, softback, ISBN 8213 1990 6. Does Debt Management Matter?, JONAS AGELL, MATS PERSSON and BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. viii & 155, £25.00 hardback, ISBN 019 828361 X. Authority and Academic Scribblers — The Role of Research in East Asian Policy Reform, SYLVIA OSTRY (ed.) (San Francisco: International Center for Economic Growth, 1991), pp. xiii & 181, $A24.95 hardback, $A12.95 softback, ISBN 1 55815 133 8 and 1 55815 132 X. Global Protectionism, DAVID GREENAWAY, ROBERT C. HINE, ANTHONY P. O'BRIEN and ROBERT J. THORNTON (eds.) (Basing-stoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. ix & 310, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 333 52969 3. Japan and the Third World, WILLIAM R. NESTER (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1992), pp. x & 323, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 333 52642 2.     

Book Reviews

Trade and Growth: New Dilemmas in Trade Policy by MANUEL R. AGOSIN and DIANA TUSSIE (eds.) (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1994), pp. xvii & 296, ISBN 0 333 59918 7. Reviving the European Union by RANDALL C. HENNING, EDUARD HOCHREITER and GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER (Washington: Institute of International Economics and The Austrian National Bank, 1994), pp. 176, US $25.00, £14.99 softback, ISBN 0 88132 208 3. Policy Issues in the Operation of Currency Unions by PAUL R. MASON and MARK P. TAYLOR (eds.) (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. xiv & 310, ISBN 0 521 43455 6. World Without End: Economics, Environment and Sustainable Development by DAVID W. PEARCE and JEREMY J. WARFORD (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. xi & 440, ISBN 0 19 520881 1.     

Book reviews

MARKETING FOR THE SMALL FIRM by Rick Brown (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985), 184 pages, £5.95. ISBN 0–03–910616–0.

THE SELLING OF BRITISH TELECOM by Karin Newman (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986), 176 pages, £15.95. ISBN 0–03–910639–1.

ADVERTISING WORKS 3 edited by Charles Channon (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985), 317 pages, £20.00. ISBN 0–03–910619–5.

BASIC MARKETING 2nd ed. by Tom Cannon (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986), 369 pages, £7.95. ISBN 0–03–910603–9.

TRAINING SALESMEN ON THE JOB 2nd Edition by John Lidstone (Gower Press, Aldershot, 1986), 180 pages, £25.00. ISBN 0–566–02414–4.

STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL MARKETING edited by Peter W. Turnbull and Jean‐Paul Valla (Croom Helm, London, 1986), 310 pages, £29.95 hardback. ISBN 0–7099–2494–1.

PRACTICAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: WHAT WORKS WHAT DOES NOT by Peter M. Kraushar (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, London, 1985), 180 pages, £15.95 hardback. ISBN 0–03–910614–4.