International Business Opportunities and Challenges in a Flattening World Version 3 0 3rd Carpenter Test Bank

2.1 What Is International Trade Theory?

2.2 Political and Legal Factors That Impact International Trade

2.3 Foreign Direct Investment

2.4 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

2.5 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

3.1 What Is Culture, Anyhow? Values, Customs, and Language

3.2 What Are the Key Methods Used to Describe Cultures?

3.3 Understanding How Culture Impacts Local Business Practices

3.4 Global Business Ethics

3.5 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

3.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

3.7 Additional References

4.1 Classifying World Economies

4.2 Understanding the Developed World

4.3 Developing World

4.4 Emerging Markets

4.5 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

4.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

5.1 International Economic Cooperation among Nations

5.2 Regional Economic Integration

5.3 The United Nations and the Impact on Trade

5.4 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

6.1 What Is the International Monetary System?

6.2 What Is the Role of the IMF and the World Bank?

6.3 Understanding How International Monetary Policy, the IMF, and the World Bank Impact Business Practices

6.4 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

6.5 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

7.1 What Do We Mean by Currency and Foreign Exchange?

7.2 Understanding International Capital Markets

7.3 Venture Capital and the Global Capital Markets

7.4 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

7.5 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

8.1 Global Strategic Choices

8.2 PESTEL, Globalization, and Importing

8.3 International-Expansion Entry Modes

8.4 CAGE Analysis

8.5 Scenario Planning and Analysis

8.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

9.1 What Are Importing and Exporting?

9.2 Countertrade

9.3 Global Sourcing and Its Role in Business

9.4 Managing Export and Import

9.5 What Options Do Companies Have for Export and Import Financing?

9.6 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

9.7 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

10.1 Business and Corporate Strategy

10.2 Generic Strategies

10.3 International Strategy

10.4 The Five Elements of Strategy

10.5 Managing the International Business with the P-O-L-C Framework

10.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

11.1 Entrepreneurship

11.2 What Do Entrepreneurs Do?

11.3 Business Entrepreneurship across Borders

11.4 From Entrepreneurship to Born-Global Firms

11.5 From Entrepreneurship to Intrapreneurship

11.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

12.1 The Changing Role of Strategic Human Resources Management in International Business

12.2 The Global War for Talent

12.3 Effective Selection and Placement Strategies

12.4 The Roles of Pay Structure and Pay for Performance

12.5 Tying It All Together—Using the HRM Balanced Scorecard to Gauge and Manage Human Capital, Including Your Own

12.6 Tips in Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

12.7 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

13.1 An Introduction to Research and Development (R&D)

13.2 Intellectual Property Rights around the Globe

13.3 How to Organize and Where to Locate Research and Development Activities

13.4 Increasing Speed and Effectiveness of International Innovation

13.5 Innovation for the Bottom of the Pyramid

13.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

14.1 Fundamentals of Global Marketing

14.2 Critical Decision Points in Global Marketing

14.3 Standardized or Customized Products

14.4 Global Sourcing and Distribution

14.5 Global Production and Supply-Chain Management

14.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises

15.1 International Accounting Standards

15.2 Accounting in International Business

15.3 Fundamentals of Finance

15.4 Financial Management in International Business

15.5 Global Money Management: Moving Money across Borders

15.6 End-of-Chapter Questions and Exercises