A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about International Business

George Cairns is Adjunct Professor at QUT Business School, Brisbane. George co-founded and was co-editor of the journal Critical Perspectives on International Business. Throughout his writing, George has adopted a critical stance on the impacts of IB activity on remote and excluded stakeholders, both in the present and the future. Much of his work applies scenario methods to explore possible and possible futures. His studies include a number of journal articles on the ship breaking industry of Bangladesh. George has published in journals including Human Relations, European Journal of Operational Research, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and Futures.Martyna Sliwa is Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at the University of Essex.Her research interests focus on a range of topics relevant to the employees, managers and otherstakeholders of contemporary organisations, especially those operating in the international businessenvironment. Examples of Martyna’s recent research projects include: language(s) and power inmultinational corporations, transnational professional mobility, and the effects of the intersectionsof nationality and gender on organisational hierarchies and individual careers of highly skilledprofessionals. Martyna is currently an Associate Editor of Management Learning. She haspublished in a variety of journals, for example: the British Journal of Management, Journal ofInternational Business Studies, Management Learning and Organization.

This book is delightfully written and a pleasure to read. But more than that, it inspires reflection, invites reaction, ignites the imagination and summons the reader to take responsibility for our global world. After all, any book about international business is also a book about us.

• Introduction: Why We Feel the Need to Write This Particular Book on International BusinessChapter 1: Classical and Neo-classical Theories of International TradeChapter 2: Twentieth-Century Developments in Trade and Investment TheoriesChapter 3: Institutions of International BusinessChapter 4: The International Business OrganizationChapter 5: The Dynamic Landscape of International BusinessChapter 6: People in International BusinessChapter 7: Understanding Organizations in the IB EnvironmentConcluding remarksReferences