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In Any Happy Returns: Structural Changes and Super Cycles in Markets, celebrated author Peter C. Oppenheimer delivers his much-anticipated follow-up to The Long Good Buy. The book discusses how structural changes in macroeconomic drivers, geopolitics, government policy and social attitudes all combine to drive secular super cycles that help to explain investor returns. T

This book provides practical perspectives for business managers and a step-by-step toolkit that can be used by management teams to develop a successful subsidiary strategy that acknowledges contemporary challenges. It is based on the author's 30 years of experience as an executive at IBM, supplemented by academic study at Master's and PhD levels.

This book discusses challenges that arise for multinational companies from not having a single 'nationality' and being exposed to a variety of simultaneous country-specific, legally, and culturally constructed nationalities at home and abroad. Brexit, America First campaigns, Russia's war against Ukraine, or the ever-tenser relationship between China and the US have led to raising concerns about foreign direct investments.

The 14th volume in the PIBR series reflects the evolving level of scholarly attention to Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA), four characteristics of the modern environment of international business. The VUCA dimensions of the business environment that both managers and policy makers face are amplified by a wide variety of unpredictable social, economic, political and technological forces.

Virtual teams possess unique features allowing them to combine cultural multiplicity, specific tasks, physical remoteness of team members, continuous distant communication, critical interdependence of tasks, leadership, cohesion, empowerment, confidence, virtuality, special trust creation and trust building. For a successful functioning of present-day organisations, they need to employ geographically dispersed labour force.

This accessible text provides an insight into the growing global trend of crowdfunding as a source of entrepreneurial finance. Grounded in academic literature, this book looks at the micro and macro issues within crowdfunding, from the entrepreneur's access to finance at the business level, to the role of government in regulating the market.

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People Ops is a collection of candid lessons, stories, and principles in leadership, people, and culture from startup environments. It reveals the hard truths and sometimes uncomfortable realities that we all know exist but struggle to articulate.