New Features :

• An innovative and unique set of “Building Your Global Resume” boxes that appear in each of the chapters. Prepared by Bernard Yevin, dean of the Business Informational Technology Division of Forsyth Technical Community College, each box presents valuable tools and insights to help students to build a foundation for entering and excelling in international business activities and careers. These boxes include such issues as finding international job opportunities, building international skills and experience, gaining relevant knowledge and tools to increase success in finding and performing international business jobs, and practical experience and recommendations from global mentors that have successfully pursued careers involving international business activity.
• Updated GlobalEDGE Research Tasks , created by Tunga Kiyak and Tom as Hult of the CIBER Center at Michigan State University . These exercises found at the end of each chapter challenge students to solve problems similar to those faced by practicing international business managers and acquaint them with the tools and data real managers use and are ideal for web-based courses. For example, in working on a product launch, students may be asked to compile a list of the top 10 countries in terms of their attractiveness for potential return of FDI. Students can access Internet resources needed to solve the problems by visiting the GlobalEDGE website www.globaledge.msu.edu . (Instructors are given solutions and the URL where the information is located.)
• A new video collection features original business documents as well as NBC news footage. Featured titles include “Will Rallies Help Immigrants?”, “Is China Cheating When It Comes to Trade?”, “Cirque du Soleil: A Truly Global Workforce,” and “J&J: Creating a Global Learning Organization” Videos correspond to end-of-part video cases with discussion questions in the book.
• Chapter 4 has been reorganized to increase focus on international institutions that influence international business.
• Chapter 12 Labor Forces and Chapter 20 Human Resource Management have been completely reorganized to avoid redundancies and better focus their respective content.
• Chapter 14 Organization Design and Control has been moved so that it follows directly after the discussion of strategy, reflecting suggestions of reviewers and users. As a result, the numbering and ordering of chapters 15 through 21 has been modified slightly to improve the organization and flow of content. Chapter 21 has been renamed to Financial Management and Accounting to emphasize an increased emphasis on issues of international accounting in addition to financial management.