Introduction to Global Business: Understanding the International Environment & Global Business

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Understanding today's rapidly changing global business environment can be challenging, particularly with conflicting news about how business actions in the European Union or emerging economies of Asia, or migrations from Mexico and Central America are impacting the U.S. and world economies. INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL BUSINESS: UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT & GLOBAL BUSINESS, 3E provides a clear, comprehensive analysis of today's global business environment, supported by current examples and mini-cases. Written by authoritative professionals, this edition introduces globalization using unparalleled scholarship and the fundamentals of the global business environment -- culture, ethics, economics and information technology. You see how shifts in the global geopolitical balance of power and changing regional strategic alliances can impact job opportunities and future living standards, as the text flows from concept to application. MindTap digital resources help you apply principles to personal and professional situations.
About the Author
Dr. Julian Gaspar is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Finance with Texas A&M University�s Mays Business School. He is currently an adjunct professor of international business with the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he teaches international business and international financial management. Dr. Gaspar is former director of Texas A&M University's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), where he guided the international expansion of the business school's academic programs, faculty research and outreach programs for thirty years. As the director of one of America's 15 CIBER business schools, Dr. Gaspar infused globalization into the school's business courses through international business course designs, study abroad and exchange programs, and authoring international business (IB) texts. Dr. Gaspar developed and led study abroad programs to China, Europe and India. An international economist by training, he has three decades of expertise in country risk evaluation, project economic and financial analysis, and financial and industrial restructuring of emerging economies. His corporate experience includes work with Bank of America in Tokyo and San Francisco, where he conducted country risk assessment and researched and analyzed debt problems of developing countries. During his tenure as an international economist with the World Bank Group, Dr. Gaspar analyzed investment projects in Asia and designing financial and industrial restructuring programs for Poland and Cyprus. Dr. Gaspar received his Ph.D. in international and monetary economics from Georgetown University, his M.B.A. from Indiana University and his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Madras, India.
Dr. James Kolari has taught financial markets and institutions at Texas A&M University and been active in international education, consulting and executive education. In 1994 he was awarded the J.P. Morgan Chase Professorship in Finance in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M. Prior to this, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki and worked with the Bank of Finland. Dr. Kolari has served as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as a faculty fellow with the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. In addition, he has consulted for the U.S. Small Business Administration, American Bankers Association, Independent Bankers Association of America and the U.S. Information Agency. In recent years he has worked as a senior research fellow at the Swedish School of Business and Economics (Hanken) in Finland. Previously, he served as an advisor on the North American Free Trade Agreement for the State of Texas; he was a consultant for the Mexican government in financing technology; and he served as a member of the Academy of Sciences for Higher Education in Russia. With more than 100 articles in refe