Business Textbooks: Library Subscription and Open Access

2020. By Jocobus Boers. Topics covered include the global context of business, currency, supply chains, legal systems, culture and values, financial markets, economic complexity, global value chains, experts, and global competition.
A revision of Global Business is currently in development to include the effects of a pandemic on geopolitical and supply-chain dynamics.

This resource is an online course with discussion modules which can be adopted or not. Many ancillary resources to consider which require a log in to "Course Hero".

2011. By Mason A Carpenter, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Sanjyot P Dunung, Atma.
Explores building, leading, and thriving in global organizations in an increasingly flat world. The authors define ”Flat world“ as one where service industries that dwarf manufacturing industries in terms of scale and scope, an Internet that pervades life and work, and networks define modern businesses, whether service or manufacturing. Text is designed to speak to technologically-savvy students who see national borders as bridges and not barriers.
Develops students' knowledge of international contexts so that they may launch, run, and work in any organization that is global in scope.

2015. By Kazuyuki Motohashi.
Facilitates an understanding of business contexts in multinational investment in emerging economies such as China and India
Provides a good balance of theoretical ideas and case studies for global business strategy
Focuses on Japanese firms’ activities that previously have not been fully described in the English literature

2012. By Cornelis A. de Kluyver, University of Oregon
Poses the following questions for your students to analyze:

• What markets and/or regions should a company compete in and why?


• To what degree can and should products and services be standardized?


• Is it advantageous to adopt a more or less uniform market positioning worldwide?


• What value-added activities should it keep in-house, outsource, or relocate for competitive advantage?


• How can competitive responses be most effectively coordinated on a global basis?