Global Business Today

Charles W. L. Hill is the Hughes M. and Katherine Blake Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington. The Foster School has a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), one of only 17 funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and is consistently ranked as a Top-25 business school. Learn more about Professor Hill at foster.uw.edu/faculty-research/directory/charles-hill A native of the United Kingdom, Professor Hill received his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. In addition to the University of Washington, he has served on the faculties of the University of Manchester, Texas A&M University, and Michigan State University. Professor Hill has published over 50 articles in top academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. Professor Hill has also published several textbooks including International Business (McGraw Hill LLC) and Global Business Today (McGraw Hill LLC). His work is among the most widely cited in the world in international business and strategic management. Beginning in 2014, Dr. Hill partnered with Dr. Tomas Hult in a formidable co-authorship of the IB franchise of textbooks (International Business, Global Business Today). This brought together two of the most cited international business scholars in history. Professor Hill has taught in the MBA, Executive MBA, Technology Management MBA, Management, and PhD programs at the University of Washington. During his time at the University of Washington he has received over 25 awards for teaching excellence, including the Charles E. Summer Outstanding Teaching Award. Professor Hill works on a private basis with a number of organizations. His clients have included Microsoft, where he has been teaching in-house executive education courses for two decades. He has also consulted for a variety of other large companies (e.g., AT&T Wireless, Boeing, BF Goodrich, Group Health, Hexcel, Microsoft, Philips Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, Seattle City Light, Swedish Health Services, Tacoma City Light, Thompson Financial Services, WRQ, and Wizards of the Coast). Professor Hill has also served on the advisory board of several start-up companies. For recreation, Professor Hill enjoys skiing, and competitive sailing!   CAMERON GORDON is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Research School of Management at the Australian National University (ANU).  He also holds concurrent appointments with the Research School of Economics at the ANU; the Social Policy Simulation Center at the City University of New York; and the Faculty of Health (Centre for Research and Action in Public Health) at the University of Canberra.  Prior to that Dr. Gordon held permanent faculty appointments in Finance at the City University of New York and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He has taught graduate and undergraduate International Business courses for over 10 years. Dr. Gordon’s research focuses on organizational governance, public-private partnerships, transport and logistics management, and the economics and ethics of offshoring. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and a 2016 book Behavioural Approaches to Corporate Governance, published by Routledge Press. Before entering academia, he had a long public service career focusing on economic and policy research at the US National Academy of Sciences (Board of Infrastructure and Constructed Environment); US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation; and the US Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources.

PART ONE GLOBALISATION
Chapter 1 Globalisation

PART TWO CROSS BORDER LINKAGES: TRADE, INVESTMENT AND EXCHANGE
Chapter 2 Theories of Trade, Investment and Internationalisation
Chapter 3 The Political Economy of Trade and Investment
Chapter 4 Foreign Exchange and Finance


PART THREE COUNTRY DIFFERENCES
Chapter 5 Differences in Culture
Chapter 6 Political and Legal Environments
Chapter 7 Economic Environment
Chapter 8 Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
Chapter 9 Export Market Research


PART FOUR COMPETING IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE
Chapter 10 The Strategy of International Business
Chapter 11 Entering Foreign Markets
Chapter 12 International Marketing and R&D
Chapter 13 International Production, Outsourcing and Logistics
Chapter 14 International Human Resource Management