One billion customers : lessons from the front lines of doing business in China / James McGregor.
New York : Free Press, c2005.
Available in the Social Sciences & Humanities Library and Gatton Library at HC427.95 .M43 2005

About this Book
It is well known that with a population of 1.3 billion people, China’s market is moving quickly toward surpassing those of North America and Europe combined. Companies from the United States and around the globe are flocking there to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products. But as former Wall Street Journal China bureau chief turned successful corporate executive James McGregor explains, business in China is conducted with a lot of subterfuge — nothing is as it seems and nothing about doing business in China is easy.Destined to become the bible for business people in China,One Billion Customers shows how to navigate the often treacherous waters of Chinese deal-making. Brilliantly written by an author who has lived in China for nearly two decades, the book reveals indispensable, street-smart strategies, tactics, and lessons for succeeding in the world’s fastest growing consumer market.Foreign companies rightly fear that Chinese partners, customers, or suppliers will steal their technology or trade secrets or simply pick their pockets. Testy relations between China’s Communist leaders and the United States and other democracies can trap foreign companies in a political crossfire. McGregor has seen or experienced it all, and now he shares his insights into how China really works.One Billion Customers maximizes the expansive knowledge of a respected journalist, well-known businessman, and ultimate China insider, offering compelling narratives of personalities, business deals, and lessons learned — from Morgan Stanley’s creation of a joint-venture Chinese investment bank to the pleasure dome of a smuggler whose $6 billion operation demonstrates how corruption greases the wheels of Chinese commerce. With nearly 100 strategies for conducting business in China, this unprecedented account combines practical lessons with the story of China’s remarkable rise to power.

Subject(s):
Business enterprises, Foreign — Government policy — China.
Investments, Foreign — China.
China — Economic conditions — 2000-
China — Commercial policy.
China — Foreign economic relations.

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This book studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central bank, the German labour union, and the French labour union. As to policy cooperation, the focus is on the same institutions. These are higher-dimensional issues. The policy targets are price stability and full employment. The policy makers follow cold-turkey or gradualist strategies. The policy decisions are taken sequentially or simultaneously. Monetary and wage policies have spillover effects. Special features of this book are numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation.

Subject(s):
Monetary policy — European Union countries.
Labour Force and Market Economics
Trade Union, Labour Relations

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This two-part collection of rare texts explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm.
The first part covers the period 1700–1850. The mid-nineteenth century saw the advent of the railway age and the biggest expansion of the shareholder base since the financial revolution of the late seventeenth century. Throughout the 1840s a series of laws were introduced to regulate the expanding corporate sector and protect shareholders. The decade marks a turning point in the legal identity of the business enterprise, as companies responded by introducing new types of capital structure and business organisation. The second part, therefore, takes these changes into account and brings the story forward from 1850–1914.
This edition presents very rare documents from UK and US archives, including minute books, accounts, company prospectuses and legal deeds.

Subject(s):
Corporations — History.
Corporation law — History.

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Learning and adaption are key features of “real economies”. Studying interesting real phenomena like innovation, industry evolution or the role of expectation formulation in financial markets thus necessitates novel methods of data analysis and modelling. This title covers statistical models of heterogeneity, artificial consumer markets, models of adaptive expectation formulation in financial markets and agent-based models of industry evolution, product diversification and energy markets. The joint findings are presented in a manner that is interesting both for readers with a background in economics/management and mathematics and statistics and also for non-expert readers because it allows them to grasp the ideas of modern management science. This book thus provides a unique integrated toolbox for building realistic agent-based models of learning and adaption in a variety of settings based on sound data analysis.

Subject(s):
Economics — Mathematical models.
Marketing — Mathematical models.

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Creating sustainable shareholder value is one of the main strategic objectives for financial institutions. This text provides a detailed analytical assessment of shareholder value creation. The first part provides a framework for analyzing shareholder value theory by discussing how shareholder value can be defined, if it can be considered a valid strategic objective for banks, and how it can be measured and created. The second part presents various empirical investigations in to order to measure shareholder value and some of its drivers. The final part analyzes the importance of these drivers in creating shareholder value and develops a new measure of bank efficiency.

Subject(s):
Banks and Financial institutions– Valuation.
Risk management.
Investment.
Financial Economics.

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Innovation targets, now set in many countries, are raising expectations that innovation policies can help to achieve the targets and to improve quality of life. Economic theory, statistical measurement, and the need to achieve targets, are combining to shift the policy focus towards the outcomes and the economic and social impacts of innovation. This is forcing economists, and statisticians, to look for new measures, indicators, and analytical frameworks to support the public policy debate and the implementations of change necessary for success. This book both examines and contributes to this process.

Subject(s):
Technological innovations — Economic aspects.
Technological innovations — Business Administration & Enterprise
Technological innovations — Government policy.

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Seize the competitive advantage of outsourcing with advice from the experts. Written by two outsourcing consultants to many Standard & Poor’s 500 companies, The Offshore Nation offers you guidance on integrating outsourcing into your organization’s core goals, maximizing ROI, and minimizing operational risks. The authors also make a case for the globalization of services and offer insights into outsourcing trends worldwide. This practical, strategy-packed guide outlines the ‘big picture’ of outsourcing, breaking down its different components and examining its impact on world and local economies and employment shifts. Covering outsourcing in many different countries and a variety of services - from IT, telecom and customer service to accounting - the authors reveal best practices and step-by-step, proven methods.

Subject(s):
Offshore outsourcing and contracting
Service industries — Marketing.
International business enterprises — Management.
Business case studies

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The book features eight studies related to governance and risk. It provides a critical evaluation of Basel II, and questions the significance of corruption in country risk analysis and investors’ decision making. It offers a reliable model of early warning credit signals that helps managers to detect default risks, and provides a risk-based analysis of alternative production systems in Pakistan. It analyzes the effects of market liberalization on volatility spill-over across the globe, and examines past and future prospects for the Iraqi stock exchange. Finally, it proposes securitization as a means to finance costs of reconstruction in Iraq.

Subject(s):
Developing countries - Economic policy.
Investments & Securities
Risk Management
Financial Markets

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Japanese distribution was long seen as archaic and difficult to understand, but today that has changed. Domestic firms stretching across all retail formats and categories have taken control of channels and now lead the consumer market from the front. They are now so advanced that the very best are bursting out of the Japanese market and operating across Asia and even as far as Western Europe. Through case studies and concrete examples, this book provides the most detailed analysis of retailing in Japan ever written; it is the definitive guide to how Japan has changed and what to expect in the future.

Subject(s):
Retail Marketing & Distribution
East Asia - Economics & Development

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Gary Burn examines how in 1950s London, City bankers invented a new form of money and escaped offshore, beyond the jurisdiction of monetary authority. This most momentous financial innovation since the bank note, paved the way for globalization. It was a first shot in the neo-liberal counter-revolution against the Keynesian welfare state. This is the story of the Eurodollar and the re-emergence of global capital. It tells how the City discarded sterling and reclaimed its historic role as the world’s foremost financial centre.
The first authoritative study of the origins and early development of the Euromarkets:
* A definitive and comprehensive study of the Eurodollar and Euromarket phenomenon and the birth of offshore finance
* A study of the City-Bank of England-Treasury nexus and its impact on the British economy in the post war period
* A re-examination of the role played by the USA in the re-emergence of global finance
* Based on archival evidence and interviews with bankers and politicians who were there

Subject(s):
Financial Economics
Economic Policy
Monetary Policy
Euro-dollar market.