Top International Business books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of International Business

Understanding the concepts of International Business starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.

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The Liberal Illusion: Does Trade Promote Peace?

The Liberal Illusion sheds light on an increasingly important question in international relations scholarship and the domain of policy making-whether international trade promotes peace. By examining a broad range of theories about trade's impact on interstate relations and undertaking a set of empirical analyses of the trade-conflict puzzle, Katherine Barbieri provides a comprehensive assessme…

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Stock Market Crashes: Predictable And Unpredictable And What To Do About Them (World Scientific Finance)

This book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we mean that prices are rising just because they are rising and that prices exceed fundamental values. A bubble can be a large rise in prices followed by a steep fall. The focus is on determining if a bubble actually exists, on models to predict stock market declines …

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.

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When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures

A major new edition of the classic work that revolutionized the way business is conducted across cultures and around the globe. The fourth edition provides leaders and managers with practical strategies to embrace differences and successfully work across diverse business cultures.

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International Financial Management (MindTap Course List)

Gain the solid understanding of theory and practical insights you need for success in international finance today with Madura's best-selling INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 14E. This reader-friendly approach builds on the fundamental principles of corporate finance to provide timely information and an understanding of managerial topics in a global environment necessary to prosper in intern…

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