Literature

Nicole Franziska Richter, Jesper Strandskov, Sven Hauff, and Vasyl Taras 

This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides readers with an advanced and applied approach to traditional  international business that integrates key cross-cultural management topics. Its ten chapters give profound insights into analysing, selecting and entering international markets, strategic partnerships, strategic positioning, global value chains, organizational designs, intercultural interaction, leadership and motivation and international human resources management. For each of these topics, advanced and contemporary theoretical and analytical frameworks are discussed and translated into toolsets that will assist readers in solving practical challenges.

This is a unique book that adopts a global approach to studying international business. It stimulates research and rethinking among scholars and practitioners to understand how businesses operate internationally into lucrative markets, and their role in sustainable business growth, glocal value creation, and economic development. It provides insights into how international firms, entrepreneurs, family businesses, and other stakeholders balance the act of value creation and conducting sustainable and ethical business. The book covers economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability such as poverty alleviation through FDI and remittances, diversity and inclusion in management, and ethical governance to value creation for stakeholders and profit maximization through

 sustainable firm growth, entrepreneurial initiatives, and sustainable business models. It addresses capacity building and the grand challenges that international business needs to develop solutions for. The chapters offer multiple types of contributions including conceptual and theoretical works, literature reviews, and empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies. The authors, and the topics included, provide a wide international representation and illustrate multi-layered sustainable business perspectives that cover developing, emerging, and developed country contexts as well as multiple directions of international business flows.

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Global Mobility of Highly Skilled People 

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Self-initiated Expatriation 

Driss Habti, Maria Elo

This volume examines self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), the category of highly skilled people whose movement from one country to another is by choice. Although they are not forced to relocate due to work, conflict or natural disaster, their migration pattern is every bit as complex. The book challenges previous theoretical approaches that take for granted a more simplistic view of this population, and advances that mobility of SIEs relates to the expatriates themselves, their conditions and the different structures intervening in their career life course. With their visible increase worldwide, this book positions itself as a nexus for this on-going discussion, while linking self-initiated expatriation to the theoretical landscape of international skilled migration and mobility. Major interests that catch attention are transnational practices, work-related experiences and personal life course, including forms of inequalities in their migration experiences. The book identifies forms and drivers of migratory behavior and provides an argument concerning the broader processes of mobility and integration. As such, this book constitutes a departure point for future research in terms of theoretical underpinnings and empirical rigor on global highly skilled mobility of SIEs. The collection of empirical case studies offers an insightful analysis for policy makers, concerned stakeholders and organizations to better cope with this form of migration.   

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Diaspora Network in International Business 

Perspectives for Understanding and Managing Diaspora Business and Resources 

Maria Elo, Indianna Minto-Coy

This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects and mechanisms, revealing both positive and negative aspects of diaspora activities. Providing insights into the socio-cultural influences, it discusses diaspora entrepreneurship and international business, the respective organizational models, investments and business types. Lastly it offers an assessment of managing diaspora resources and policymaking.

This book was created by an interdisciplinary team of editors, co-authors and reviewers including historians, sociologists, psychologists, linguists and ethnologists, as well as experts in public policy, international business, marketing and entrepreneurship. This unique team (many of the authors are themselves diasporans with an extensive understanding of their topic) provides the first global academic platform on the subject, combining the latest empirical evidence from developing, emerging, transitional and developed countries with various combinations of diaspora flows that to date have received little attention.

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Cases on Born Globals 

Elgar Cases in Entrepreneurship  

Edited by Erik S. Rasmussen 

Cases on Born Globals brings together a wealth of case studies covering a range of industries and countries on emerging firms known as ‘Born Globals’ that seek to enter international markets immediately upon creation. Bringing together 11 key cases, Erik Rasmussen highlights how these firms have been increasing in number over the last 20 years. He further explores the speed of their growth, the challenges experienced and likely future prognoses. The book also discusses whether early internationalization could be advantageous to entrepreneurial firms by linking up to other more prominent firms and thereby creating a greater reach for the newly-created firms.

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Handbook of Research on Business Model Innovation Through Disruption and Digitization

 Erik S. Rasmussen, Nicolaj Hannesbo Petersen 

Digital technologies are changing both the national and global business landscapes. Digitalization within firms and industries and newcomers from other fields give new conditions for competition through new business models.

The Handbook of Research on Business Model Innovation Through Disruption and Digitalization discusses the aspects of the innovation of business models through disruption and digitalization. It further includes chapters on theories and practices related to the overall theme of how business models are developed. Covering topics such as agile networks, interactive business models, and managerial implications, this major reference work is a dynamic resource for business leaders and executives, IT managers, human resource managers, entrepreneurs, government officials, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

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Organization - from theory to practice

 Edited by Søren Voxted

Organization – from theory to practice presents the reader with the most important and latest theories that can be used to understand and work with organizations. Through cases and action instructions, the book's chapters reveal how the theories turn into practice.

Application of organizational theory is context dependent. It requires a local adaptation to professional groups, industries, the individual company or unit and not least the culture. The book's authors therefore put the predominant international theories in a Danish context, so that they can be put into practice in companies and institutions.

Culture in particular is a good example of how organizational theory is constantly in motion. In recent years, there have been major changes in the prevailing view of people and the perception of what connects people to organisations. It affects the importance of culture for the work in and with the organization. 

It is written with the inclusion of the latest research and reviews in 14 chapters:

• the organisation's goals and strategy, structure and environment
• Use of teams in organizations and technologies 
• Decision-making processes, management and change management
• Communication, motivation, culture as well as power, conflict and diversity 
• The organizations of the future

The book is edited by Søren Voxted (SDU), and written by the experienced teachers and researchers Torben Andersen (AU), Emil Husted (CBS), Finn Jacobsen (AU), Anders Bille Jensen (SDU), Mette Lund Kristensen (SDU), Louise Møller Pedersen (AAU), Jesper Strandgaard (CBS), Mogens Sparre (AAU), Marita Svane (AAU), Henrik Sørensen (AU), Morten Thanning Vendelø (CBS) and Kent Wickstrøm (SDU).

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Decisions in theory and practice 

 Edited by Søren Voxted

It is a fundamental condition for human work and social communities that decisions are made. All social activity and all cooperation are based on cognitive decisions, and they are included in activities and processes on several levels - from our most intimate world in the couple relationship, the nuclear family or closest circle of friends to our workplaces, where they both make operations slide and the organization to develop, and finally to the overall political life.

This anthology provides a broad introduction to decisions and decision theory, and based on organizational theory, the book's 11 chapters review various themes, e.g. decision-theoretic trends, decision-making behaviour, evaluation and dilemmas in organisations.

Decisions in theory and practice is aimed at lecturers and students in further and higher education, where management and organization are part of the curriculum and where decisions are a theme.

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Choices that create knowledge 

- about social science methods 

 Edited by Søren Voxted

Which ways should - and can - be used to produce knowledge that meets scientific requirements?
There is an extensive range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, but when is it most appropriate to use the specific methods? Those answers, and many other answers to methodological questions, are given by 24 researchers and teachers at higher education institutions in this book.

The authors introduce which approaches, when and how social science methods can be used when students have to write a project or when practitioners have to investigate a concrete problem in the workplace.

Choices that create knowledge are primarily written for students on intermediate, diploma and bachelor's programmes. The book contains 21 chapters and is rich in examples. There is a presentation of the dominant theoretical schools of science within the social sciences, and an introduction to the application of theory. The reader is guided through the project phases starting with the formulation of the problem. A wide range of methods for data collection and analysis are then reviewed. The book concludes with a chapter on ethical and practical issues that students encounter when producing knowledge in a degree.

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