International Business, 2nd Edition
By Shad Morris, James Oldroyd
The International business environment changes quickly, and the many factors that contribute to successful decision-making can be daunting for students. Written by two professors with extensive backgrounds in multi-national organizations, International Business, 2nd Edition is current, engaging and applied. Committed to staying up-to-date, this new edition discusses cutting-edge topics like COVID-19, Brexit and the US-China trade war. Unique chapters on poverty, technology, sustainability, innovation and leadership provide real-life context engages students and draws them into the world of global business. To move students beyond understanding and help them think critically about business decisions, this new edition includes 40 cases – 20 of which are brand new and focus on current global issues within companies like Dominos, Tesla and H&M. By the end of this course, students will understand the global marketplace and be able to think critically about the issues that affect it.
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Tackle Complex topics with Animated Concept Videos
Each chapter includes engaging whiteboard animations developed by the authors and Brigham Young University’s Center for Teaching and Learning that break down complex content, expose students to real-world examples and help students connect theory to international business in practice.
Help Students Come to Class Prepared with Chapter Introduction Videos
Each chapter begins with a brief video that introduces and summarizes the main concepts and learning objectives students will learn about in the chapter.
Help students apply their learning with new, cutting-edge case studies.
Each chapter includes two case studies that engage students in practical applications of the materials and help them build critical thinking skills. Twenty of these case studies are new to this edition and focus on relatable companies like Dominos, H&M, and Tesla. All cases include discussion and/or assessment questions.
Connect Students to their future careers with Career Center Resources
Included Career Center Resources prepare students for future professions with Inside Track, a career coaching system, and CareerShift, a leading job search tool. Students also have access to Career Coach Videos and an ePortfolio guide.
What’s New to This Course
- NEW Bloomberg Videos: Each chapter features cutting-edge business video content from Bloomberg with chapter-level graded analysis activities to provide real world context to topics in class.
- NEW, cutting-edge case studies in every chapter engage students in practical applications of the materials and help them build critical thinking skills. Case studies include discussion and/or assessment questions.
- UPDATED coverage of important topics like COVID-19, Brexit, the US-China trade war, and more are reflected in the chapters on Currency and Foreign Exchange, Trade, Leadership, Innovation, HR, Globalization, and Supply Chains to keep your course up-to-date.
- UPDATED currency rates, facts, dates, statistics, charts and graphs keep your course current.
- Innovative chapters on important topics like Poverty, Sustainability, Technology, Innovation, and Leadership engage students on topics they care about.
- NEW Data Analytics and Decision-Making Module: Wiley partnered with business leaders in the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) to identify the competencies graduates need to be successful in their careers. As a result, WileyPLUS includes a new data analytics module with industry-validated content that prepares students for a changing workforce.
Instructor Resources
- Instructor’s Manual: Offers helpful teaching ideas, advice on course development, sample assignments, learning objectives, lecture outlines, class exercises, lecture notes, course section reviews, and more.
- Test Bank: Available in a printable, editable format and provides assessment questions that allow instructors to tailor examinations according to multiple learning outcomes.
- Digital Test Bank: Instructors can use built-in testing resources to verify student comprehension with digital fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, true/false, and free response questions.
- Respondus Test Bank: Create exams that can be printed or published directly to the LMS.
- Lecture Slides: PowerPoint presentations cover key concepts allowing the instructor to illustrate important topics with images, figures, and problems presented throughout the course.
- Practice Quizzes: This news site sparks classroom debate around current events that apply to your business course topics by providing weekly updates that include the most relevant news articles and videos tagged to your course complemented by discussion questions.
- Management Weekly Updates: This news site sparks classroom debate around current events that apply to your business course topics by providing weekly updates that include the most relevant news articles and videos tagged to your course complemented by discussion questions.
- Career Center Resources: Included Career Center Resources prepare students for future professions with Inside Track, a career coaching system, and CareerShift, a leading job search tool. Students also have access to Career Coach Videos and an ePortfolio guide.
Shad Morris teaches and conducts research on people, strategy, and the global economy. In addition to his full-time position at the Marriott School of Brigham Young University, he is a research fellow at Cambridge University and has been on the faculty at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Samsung’s SKK Graduate School of Business, and Ohio State University. In 2016 he was awarded the Scholarly Excellence Award from the Marriott School of Management at BYU. He has co-authored three books and regularly publishes in academic and industry journals. He serves as a council member for the Global Management Center Board of Directors and holds a conference-related role for the Strategic Management Society. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for the World Bank, for Management Systems International, and for Alcoa.
James Oldroyd is an associate professor of strategy at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, and the Ford Motor/Richard Cook Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2007. He was an associate professor of management at SKK-GSB in Seoul, South Korea, for five years and an assistant professor of international business at Ohio State University for three years. Professor Oldroyd’s research explores the intersection of networks and knowledge flows. His work has been published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science and Harvard Business Review. He teaches courses on strategy, strategy implementation, international business, and negotiations to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives. In addition to teaching at SKK, OSU and BYU, he has taught at the Indian School of Business and the University of North Carolina. He is actively involved in delivering custom leadership training courses for numerous companies including Samsung, Doosan, SK, Quintiles, and inside sales.
1. Globalization
2. Analytical Tools for International Business
3. Political Systems
4. The Legal Environment
5. Economic Systems
6. Currency and Foreign Exchange
7. Trade
8. Culture
9. Sustainability
10. Poverty
11. Technological Change and Infrastructure
12. Global Innovation and Intellectual Property
13. Country Selection and Entry
14. International Strategy
15. International Organizational Structures
16. Global Leadership
17. Global Marketing
18. Global Operations and Supply-Chain Management
19. Global Human Resource Management
20. Global Finance and Accounting
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