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This brief edition of Deresky's text, International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, Third Edition , offers a core text that can be used in executive training and graduate courses, and in undergraduate courses in global and international management. The text helps students develop management skills at the organizational, strategic, and interpersonal level, emphasizing how culture interacts with other factors to affect managerial behavior. Trends are illustrated with chapter-opening profiles of real companies, sections on selected topics in specific countries, and global IT applications showing how companies are using the Internet. Deresky teaches strategic and international management and directs the International Business Program at the State University of New York-Plattsburgh. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This book addresses the actual management functions and behaviors necessary to develop global vision and management skills at both an organizational—strategic(macro) level, and the interpersonal (micro) level. This book places the executive or reader in the role of a manager of any nationality, encouraging the reader to take a truly global perspective in dealing with dynamic management issues in both foreign and diverse host environments. Throughout, the book emphasizes how the variable of culture interacts with other national and international factors to affect managerial processes and behaviors. In addition, the growing competitive influence of technology is emphasized, with boxes featuring the use of e-business for global competitive strategic positioning. A four-part organization covers the global manager's environment, the cultural context of global management, formulating and implementing strategy for international and global operations, and global human resources management. For executives trying to improve their global vision and management skills in order to better themselves and the various organizations for which they work.
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