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Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
List of contents
Introduction: Why We Feel the Need to Write This Particular Book on International Business
Chapter 1: Classical and Neo-classical Theories of International Trade
Chapter 2: Twentieth-Century Developments in Trade and Investment Theories
Chapter 3: Institutions of International Business
Chapter 4: The International Business Organization
Chapter 5: The Dynamic Landscape of International Business
Chapter 6: People in International Business
Chapter 7: Understanding Organizations in the IB Environment
Concluding remarks
References
About the author
George Cairns is Adjunct Professor at QUT Business School, Brisbane. George co-founded and was co-editor of the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business. Throughout his writing, George has adopted a critical stance on the impacts of IB activity on remote and excluded stakeholders, both in the present and the future. Much of his work applies scenario methods to explore possible and possible futures. His studies include a number of journal articles on the ship breaking industry of Bangladesh. George has published in journals including Human Relations, European Journal of Operational Research, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and Futures.
Martyna Sliwa is Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at the University of Essex.
Her research interests focus on a range of topics relevant to the employees, managers and other
stakeholders of contemporary organisations, especially those operating in the international business
environment. Examples of Martyna’s recent research projects include: language(s) and power in
multinational corporations, transnational professional mobility, and the effects of the intersections
of nationality and gender on organisational hierarchies and individual careers of highly skilled
professionals. Martyna is currently an Associate Editor of Management Learning. She has
published in a variety of journals, for example: the British Journal of Management, Journal of
International Business Studies, Management Learning and Organization.
Summary
Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
