Product Description: This text provides upper-level undergraduate students with an international managerial perspective that concisely integrates both market (i.e., industry structure) and nonmarket (i.e., political forces) analysis. Conklin teaches students how to understand the impact of environmental forces on the firm’s profitability, how to prioritize both risks and opportunities, how to analyze the relationships among them, and how to recommend firm responses to them to maximize MNE profitability...read more

Product Description: Cases in the Environment of Business offers an outstanding collection of relevant, classroom-tested cases.  In discussing the cases, students will participate in managerial decisions in an international context.  Most cases deal with a variety of environmental forces, but generally a single set of forces plays a predominant role...read more

Product Description: The phrase "economic system" refers to the organizational arrangements and processes through which a society makes its production and consumption decisions. In this book, Professor Conklin explores the diversity of economic systems and the choices societies must face in determining the economic systems best suited to their needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)