Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume II: Combining Companies Across Borders, Second Edition

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This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-border M&A’s are very similar in many respects even though differences between them also exist. The book includes discussions of international finance and multinational financial management, the topics that arise in cross-border M&A transactions.
Given the increasing importance of China as the second largest economy in the world and Chinese companies’ growing merger and acquisition (M&A) activities globally, we devote the last two chapters of the book to China’s outward foreign direct investment and cross-border M&A activities. Moreover, the second volume includes the case studies regarding Chinese foreign direct investment both in Greenfield and acquisition forms give additional insights into challenging tasks of due diligence and post-merger cultural integration that foreign investors face.
The M&A literature is a fragmented field of inquiry. The book brings together important, practical insights from this vast literature in a short, but cohesive form that has high managerial relevance.

Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume I: Combining Companies Across Borders, Second Edition

$21.99

This book primarily deals with corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It critically examines all functions that must be performed in completing an M&A transaction. Domestic and cross-border M&A’s are very similar in many respects even though differences between them also exist. The book includes discussions of international finance and multinational financial management, the topics that arise in cross-border M&A transactions.
Given the increasing importance of China as the second largest economy in the world and Chinese companies’ growing merger and acquisition (M&A) activities globally, we devote the last two chapters of the book to China’s outward foreign direct investment and cross-border M&A activities. Moreover, the second volume includes the case studies regarding Chinese foreign direct investment both in Greenfield and acquisition forms give additional insights into challenging tasks of due diligence and post-merger cultural integration that foreign investors face.
The M&A literature is a fragmented field of inquiry. The book brings together important, practical insights from this vast literature in a short, but cohesive form that has high managerial relevance.

Numbers That Matter: Learning What to Measure to Achieve Financial Success in Your Business

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CEOs and business owners face an ever increasingly complex world in which they do business. They are making decisions from accessing viable markets, to selling their products and services, to attracting and retaining staff, all whilst making sure the bills can be paid on time. There are thousands of decisions and actions being taken every day by the people in the businesses they lead. Are they the right ones?
The ultimate scorecard of any business is the profit and loss statement and balance sheet, and this book will provide the equivalent of night vision- numbers vision- to improve that score dramatically. Unless you truly understand the numbers that matter it is the metaphorical equivalent of trying to drive a Maserati at 100 kph at night with the lights off and looking in the rear-vision mirror. So sit back and relax, we are about to put the high beam on and have you safely looking forward into your heads up display.

Practical Performance Improvement: How to Be an Exceptional People Manager

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Anyone who is responsible for the supervision and performance of a team in an organization will appreciate the practical management strategies outlined in this book. In a refreshing, humorous, and engaging approach, it aims to reduce the stress associated with the leadership of a team of people and improve the likelihood that things get done right, the first time.
The author provides great insight and practical exercises on how to be an exceptional manager and team leader. In a step-by-step approach, this book will help you be better at coaching and developing team members, setting direction for your team, and enhancing performance and engagement. A must read for all first-time managers/team leaders who want to get the best out of their team.

Econometrics for Daily Lives, Volume II

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This book guides you through an enjoyable journey, step by step, into the future. A team of fictional characters is introduced to share their learning and working experiences with the readers. In the beginning of the book, you will take the first step by learning the most basic models for one-period forecasts based on past performance of a market. You will also learn how to evaluate your newly built models. Next, you will progress further into intermediate-level models, including multi-period forecasts based on past performance of a market or based on an external factor. It also introduces interval forecasting, which allows you to obtain a range of forecast values instead of a single value in the future.
In the second half, you will familiarize yourself with advanced models that provide multi-period forecasts based on multiple internal or external factors. Toward the end, you will learn several applied models in business and economics that will facilitate you with practical applications related to real life situations. The last chapter summarizes all models introduced in this book and provides a table of references for finding the most important concepts, tables, and figures in the book so that you can recall every step of your adventure.

Consumer Behavior Theories: Convergence of Divergent Perspectives with Applications to Marketing and Management

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Rajagopal has taken on a challenging subject when he looks at consumer marketing theories in his new book. As consumers change their purchasing patterns in the modern world, it is very difficult to properly take into account the media (social and traditional) that influence them, the kinds of role models they wish to emulate, and the other factors that drive their behavior. Rajagopal has produced a valuable guide to theories that contribute to our understanding of what consumers do and why. His emphasis on emerging markets is particularly important for the fastest-growing in the world today. As more and more cultures are incorporated into global markets, Rajagopal’s guidance on how to approach them will serve companies and analysts very well. — Robert Grosse, Professor of International Business, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University
Behavioral theories of consumers have evolved through complex dimensions over the years and explained more in context of psychology than marketing. Professor Rajagopal has elucidated this complexity by explaining the consumer behavior theories with applied perspectives and delivering prolific managerial implications. This book sharpens functional skills of marketing managers and helps in attaining deeper insights to bridge theory and practice, and influence marketing strategies. Theoretical foundation, real examples, simple language, and thematic continuum of the book make it a must read for students, researchers, and marketers. —Angappa Gunasekaran, Dean and Professor, Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
This book critically examines and analyzes the classical and neo-classical behavioral theories in reference to consumer decision- making across the business cultures. Discussions in the book present new insights on drawing contemporary interpretations to the behavioral theories of consumers, and guide the breakthrough strategies in marketing.

Creating Leadership: How to Change Hippos Into Gazelles

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This informative and inspirational handbook describes how to successfully lead mergers and change in complex organizations. Drawing on a real-life experience, the authors share their insights on how leaders can deliver sustainable change by growing the capacity of everyone within an organization to deliver performance gains, behave like a leader, and encourage leadership in others.
It is a book by practitioners for practitioners telling the real- life story of a leader and a facilitator working together in the complex reality of a multinational organization. It deepens this insight by drawing on a wealth of wider research by academics and leadership practitioners. Here you will find immediately useable tools, easy to relate to real-life examples, and a little bit of magic in the form of a fable that will sustain you and your colleagues through the twists and turns of what is certain to become an intensely human journey.

Innoliteracy™: From Design Thinking to Tangible Change

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Check out the Powerpoint slides and the below video, the authors have prepared to give you better insight into this book.

Innoliteracy: From Design Thinking to Tangible Change encourages you to allocate resources in the earliest phases of your next development or change project—to the fuzzy front end, where the problem is unveiled and understood, scoped, defined, and challenged, and where the roadmap for how to introduce something new or replace something existing with something better is drawn. The book is based on a series of reflections, experiences, observations, and anecdotes as well as a guide to a better development process, referring to examples, case studies, and existing literature and research. Innoliteracy is for anyone who is engaged in—or even just curious about—change and development processes, especially how they are made more stakeholder- focused, thoroughly framed and reframed, and how one makes sure that the most relevant and imminent problem is addressed.

Climate Change Management: Special Topics In The Context of Asia

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This book focuses on special issues of climate change man- agement in Asia. It discusses the challenges of climate change governance, and examines the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security. The author includes a rare work relating to a new dimension of climate change management— environmental knowledge management. The book also touches another special topic relating to climate change and legal issues in the maritime sector. Is the current maritime legal framework effective in preventing harms to the environment still a big question?
How the legal industry in Malaysia responds to climate change is also examined in this volume. Finally, the agriculture sector in Japan investigates whether the adaptive method of introducing high-temperature tolerant varieties and the mitigation strategy affect the product price of rice. Overall, robust strategies, plans, and policies are required to provide directions to stakeholders so that they can effectively and efficiently respond to climate change challenges.

Globalization Alternatives: Strategies for the New International Economy

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In a complex and growing chaotic global environment, individuals, companies, and countries are forced to adapt, innovate, and operate in new ways. Creative and unconventional economic and business models are constantly being developed in order for countries and corporations to gain a competitive advantage. Countless novel ideas have challenged traditional views on the merits of globalization.
Populist and protectionist sentiments have gained ground alongside calls for economic nationalism, alter- globalization, deglobalization and even unglobalization. Skepticism is on the rise, and there is a pressing need for fresh solutions and viable strategies. This book assembled a cast of international experts and thought leaders and gathered their views on alternative pathways toward global success.