World Business Culture brings together vital information on various aspects of doing business around the world. This site offers country profiles, Market Entry, and how to form a company in specific geographies.
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BBC Country Profiles
BBC profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions
competitive advantage
Despite ubiquitous in strategy and related fields, the concept of competitive advantage continues to be under debate in the academy still lacking a precise and widely accepted definition.Traditionally¹ in the field of strategic management, competitive advantage has been defined as a firm consistently earning a higher rate of return than its competitors
Additional Reading.
Competitive Advantage: Sustainable or Temporary in Today’s Dynamic Environment? | Strategic Outsourcing? The Philips Case in the LCD TV Market | Collaborating to compete: The role of collective creativity in a South African clothing design small business |
Sources: ¹Competitive Advantage: Sustainable or Temporary in Today’s Dynamic Environment https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/39e1/c44cf835f6ea39621dd1e6d60120b44d07ce.pdf
Archaic Globalisation
”Globalization generally refers to the increased interdependence of the world’s economies signified by the circulation of information, money, people and goods across national boundaries. It has of late given rise to the domination of world’s market by a selected number of transnational corporations. However, since time immemorial, different countries were related to one another through geographical spread of ideas, social norms and trading commodities. This pre-modern phase of globalisation is known as archaic globalisation.¹”
Further reading
1. Silk Road: A Glance at Archaic Globalization |
Source:
1. https://iwp.uiowa.edu/silkroutes/city/kolkata/text/silk-road-glance-archaic-globalization
World Development Indicators
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimate.
American FactFinder
American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas
BUSINESS MATH: A Step-By-Step Handbook
Business maths simplified
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior bridges the gap between theory and practice with a distinct ”experiential“ approach.
Principles of Marketing
Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing – not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today’s environment: Service dominant logic, sustainability, ethics and social responsibility, global coverage, and metrics.
Principles of Management
Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership.