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"This is the third edition of the widely respected text International Business which offers a comprehensive, yet critical overview of the phenomenon of globalization and it's impacts of key aspects of the business environment as it fundamentally alters corporate strategy. This updated edition covers the core international business topics and themes, including multinationals, internationalization, and international market entry as well as a new focus on risk, business models and hyperglobalization. With dedicated chapters on the role on non-market actors in international business, the book provides a multi-disciplinary worldview for readers. Featuring a wealth of case studies and pedagogy, the new edition examines the rise of India and China as well as growing levels of risk within the global system. The book looks at those developed economies which have been the core drivers behind the trend towards hyperglobalization. The author explores and guides students through what this means for the study of international business. A comprehensive and engaging text, supplemented by online resources, this book is the ideal accompaniment to international and global business learning"--

A toolkit for entrepreneurial success In The Essential Entrepreneur, celebrated entrepreneur and business strategist Richard Turner delivers a practical, step-by-step approach to starting and growing a thriving enterprise. If you're ready to take your fledgling business to the next level--and finally follow that brilliant big idea--this guide covers everything you'll need to navigate the challenges ahead. Richard shares straightforward advice and hands-on, real-world lessons outlining the key points you need to know to start and grow your venture. And his lessons are supported by the experience and wisdom of a panel of diverse experts: Tobi Pearce (co-founder of SWEAT), Flavia Tata Nardini (of Fleet Space), Simon Haigh (of Haigh's Chocolates), and Kirsten Bernhardt (skilled investment manager). You'll discover how to: Make a splash in your industry by taking advantage of market weaknesses, disrupting the status quo and creating new openings Sort the good ideas from the bad: validate your business (whether it's a product or a service) and maximise its value Position your brand so that what you do is clear and instantly recognisable Create a business plan that really works, factoring in timing, going to market, managing finance, managing growth and more Understand the logistics of a successful and profitable operation, from sourcing suppliers to production, warehousing and distribution Most small businesses struggle to get moving. This is the book that will help you get ahead in the race. A can't-miss resource for start-up entrepreneurs and business owners, The Essential Entrepreneur outlines everything you need to know to hit the ground running.

This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that developed in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the wider European and international significance of that movement. Examining the fan networks, relations, tactics, and interactions which built the Safe Standing' movement, this book reveals an untold social history of football supporter activism and represents an important contribution to our understanding of football supporter-based social movements, the sociology of football, and social movement studies more broadly. This book argues that Safe Standing is sociologically highly significant because the restriction and partial exclusion of football fans as a social group in the timescape of English football after Hillsborough marked a moment of profound social change in the UK. Applying relational sociology, and drawing on original research and insider access, this book considers how events and ruptures, such as Hillsborough, shape the dynamics of a social movement. In this case, supporters, who have been deeply affected by the all-seating legislation, are now in a position to affect the future consumption of football. This book shows how this was achieved and how a small core network of approximately 30 supporters, networked with supporter groups across Europe, now stand to impact and shape the consumption habits of a key leisure practice all over the world. This is fascinating reading for any student, researcher, or policy-maker with an interest in football, sociology, political science, public policy, or cultural and social history.

"Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over three summers in Ibiza, the book contextualizes the drug and alcohol-related experiences of tourists and seasonal workers operating in the island's infamously hedonistic party spaces. Through an innovative application of Alan Bryman's (2004) seminal work, The Disneyization of Society, the book argues how the same marketing principles that generate consumption in the legal economy of Disney theme parks, also drives illicit drug use in Ibiza and music festivals, where the line between legal and illegal substances rapidly blurs to the point of collapse. This highly innovative book offers rich insights into the complex interplay between drug and alcohol use, agency, pleasure, risk, consumerism, and social context. It will be of great appeal to academics and students interested in the fields of cultural criminology, deviant leisure, drug and alcohol studies, youth culture, and ethnographic research methods"--

"Half a century ago, the United States was in the grips of a marijuana panic. It was 1969, the year George Harrison was arrested for marijuana possession and Richard Nixon, chief architect of what would soon be called the War on Drugs, entered the White House. In October of that year, LIFE magazine devoted a cover story to the drug debate. The cover displayed an ominous close-up of a hand clutching a shriveled blue joint. "MARIJUANA," declared the accompanying text. "At least 12 million Americans have now tried it. Are penalties too severe? Should it be legalized?". The answer, back then at least, seemed to be a resounding no. Sure, stoned flower children and drug-addled rock stars sucked up most of the media attention, but public opinion on marijuana policy more closely reflected Nixon's "silent majority" of disapproving conservatives. In 1969, Gallup surveyed Americans for the first time on whether they believed the use of marijuana should be made legal. Only 12 percent of respondents favored legalization. Although that number rose to 28 percent during the 1970s, it remained well under half of Americans, and pro-legalization sentiment entered a lull during the Reagan and Bush Sr. era. Fifty-one years later, everything has changed. While popular opinion often shifts at a glacial pace, U.S. public policy surrounding cannabis use has revolutionized in just a few years. In 2012, Washington and Colorado became the first two states to pass ballot initiatives legalizing recreational use of marijuana, despite the federal government's disapproval. By the spring of 2018, seven more states-as well as the District of Columbia-had legalized recreational use of marijuana, and 29 states altogether had either decriminalized or allowed medical marijuana use. That same year, Vermont legalized marijuana through the legislative process, another national first. 2018 and 2019 were both pivotal years for the legalization movement, and the momentum is unlikely to slow in the new decade. (Things have moved even faster in Canada, which legalized marijuana nationwide, ending nearly a century of prohibition, in 2018.) Concurrently, Americans no longer disapprove of the puffy cloud in overwhelming numbers. A 2018 Gallup poll found that 66 percent of U.S. adults approve of marijuana legalization-the highest percentage since Gallup began asking the question in 1969. Much of the shift in public opinion occurred relatively fast: Support for legalization rose by a staggering 30 percent between 2005 and 2018"--

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations. It looks at the interplay between the oil companies and the governments of both the industrialised and oil-producing countries.

"Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over three summers in Ibiza, the book contextualizes the drug and alcohol-related experiences of tourists and seasonal workers operating in the island's infamously hedonistic party spaces. Through an innovative application of Alan Bryman's (2004) seminal work, The Disneyization of Society, the book argues how the same marketing principles that generate consumption in the legal economy of Disney theme parks, also drives illicit drug use in Ibiza and music festivals, where the line between legal and illegal substances rapidly blurs to the point of collapse. This highly innovative book offers rich insights into the complex interplay between drug and alcohol use, agency, pleasure, risk, consumerism, and social context. It will be of great appeal to academics and students interested in the fields of cultural criminology, deviant leisure, drug and alcohol studies, youth culture, and ethnographic research methods"--

"From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side. Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged--from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories in California and idealistic intentional communities from Scotland to New Mexico. Here, he condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into bite-sized chunks of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort already beginning to save it. This is a book that moves past the despair and futile anger over ecological collapse and harnesses that passion toward the project of building a twenty-first century quality of life that surpasses the twentieth-century version in every way. How to Be a Climate Optimist overflows with optimism in a moment of great panic, upheaval and uncertainty over a world on fire."--

What racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the intractability of racism in American politics. Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election cycle since 2004 and continue to the present day--two elections after his presidency ended. In Trash Talk, folklorist Patricia A. Turner examines how these thought patterns have grown ever more vitriolic and persistent and what this means for American political culture. Through the lens of attacks on Obama, Trash Talk explores how racist tropes circulate and gain currency. As internet communications expand in reach, rumors and conspiracy theories have become powerful political tools, and new types of lore like the hoax and fake news have taken root. The mainstream press and political establishment dismissed anti-Obama mythology for years, registering concern only when it became difficult to deny how much power those who circulated it could command. Trash Talk demonstrates that the ascendancy of Barack Obama was never a signal of a postracial America.