This volume focuses on the European dimensions of international business and presents the work of leading international business scholars. Increasingly dominant views held about about globalization and universal modes of management are explored and challenged through three core themes: the European dimensions of human resource management, multinational subsidiary operations and emerging issues for the future of international business in Europe. Using new research data and fresh theoretical approaches, this book turns the spotlight on the processes of internationalization and Europeanization of business as global and local imperatives continue to compete, and introduces the comparative management paradigm as an approach that avoids the pitfalls of universalism in business and management models.
Author Biography:
GEORGE ANASTASSOPOULOS University of the Aegean, Chios
MOHAMED BRANINE Senior Lecturer and MBA Director, University of Stirling
ROSS BROWN Research Unit, Scottish Enterprise
TREVOR BUCK Professor of Business Policy, Graduate School of Business, De Monfort University
GEERT DUYSTERS Associate Professor, Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology
GRAHAM FALLON Senior Lecturer in Economics, University College, Northampton
REBECCA GUIDICE Phd Candidate, Washington State University
NEIL HOOD University of Strathclyde
LOUISE HURDLEY Assistant Director, Ford Faculty, Business School, Loughborough University
ALAN JONES Principal Lecturer in International Business, University College, Northampton
XIAMING LIU Lecturer in Business Economics, Aston Business School
JIM NEWTON Lecturer, Hong Kong School of Business
MARINA PAPANASTASSIOU Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
ROBERT PEARCE Reader in International Business, The University of Reading
PHILIP RAINES Senior Research Fellow, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
BERT SADOWSKI University of Technology Delft
HELEN SAKHO Associate Lecturer, South Bank University
MICHAEL SANDERSON Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Napier University
ROGER STRANGE Senior Lecturer in Economics, King's College London
JAMES TAGGART Professor of International Business Strategy, University of Glasgow
ANA TERESA TAVARES Lecturer, University of Porto
MONIR TAYEB School ofManagement, Heriot-Watt University
EMANUELA TODEVA South Bank University
ASH VASUDEVAN Manager of Strategic Alliances, CommerceNet
YINGQI WEI Lecturer in International Business, Department of Economics, Lancaster University
YUGUANG YANG Professor, Institute of the World Economy, Fudan University