The Global Business Handbook

David J. Newlands has been the Director for the Visiting Professor Programme at IÉSEG School of Management, France. This comprises a set of more than ninety intensive modules that are taken as electives. Dr Newlands identifies and recruits professors for this programme and is an active researcher. He specialises in change management, purchasing, supplier development, supply chain dynamics, costing, product design and methods to maximise profit. He has written extensively for professional journals in the operations management field. He has given invited lectures and run supply chain games in Europe, The United States, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Mark J. Hooper is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. Dr Hooper's main areas of research include operations management, change management, supply chain and agile manufacturing. He is a visiting Professor at the IÉSEG, France and at the University of Monterrey, Mexico.

Contents: The 8 dimensions of international business, David J. Newlands and Mark J. Hooper; Dimension 1 International Perspectives: International business - operating abroad, David Trigg and Marie C. Trigg; International strategy management, Mark J. Hooper; International business ethics, David Kimber and Fran Siemensma. Dimension 2 Relationship Management: Inter-firm collaboration and partnering: a key competence to satisfy demand, Maria Veludo; International negotiation, Brooks C. Holtom. Dimension 3 Supply Chain Management: Social and environmental management, Mark J. Hooper with Alkiviadis Tromaras; Managing mergers and acquisitions, Zoltán Antal-Mokos; Supply chain management, Douglas MacBeth; International purchasing management, David J. Newlands; Reverse logistics, Isabel Fernández. Dimension 4 Regional and Country Specific Differences: Human resource management's relationship to company performance, Nada Zupan; International human resource management, Hedley Malloch; Employment relations in a global networked economy, Sandra Jones; Human resources management practices within Japanese companies, Peter Firkola. Dimension 5 Marketing and Sales: Doing business in Western Europe, Simon A. Mercado; Doing business in NAFTA, Coral R. Snodgrass; Direct marketing - a global perspective, Tim Lyons; Retail merchandising and sales promotions, Mayo de Juan Vigaray and Beyza Gültekin; Services marketing: an overview and relational approach of the B2B setting, Ruben Chumpitaz and Nicholas G. Paparoidamis. Dimension 6 Cost Management: Strategic cost management, Roby B. Sawyers; Strategic management of not-for-profit organizations, Steve Molloy. Dimension 7 Innovation and Quality: The quality management situation - an introduction, Kevin Laframboise; Technology and innovation management, David J. Newlands; Managing knowledge strategically, Sandra Jones; Tacit knowledge and implicit learning, Keith Dawes. Dimension 8 Business Transformation: Service operations manageme