Applied International Business in Canada: Canadian Strategies for Global Trade, Market Entry, Investment, and Cross-Cultural Management - Couverture souple

Publishing, Westbridge

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798173044518

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Every chapter in this book ends with the same question a manager faces: given these facts, what would you decide, and how would you defend it?

International decisions require more than awareness of different environments. They require the ability to calculate, compare, structure, and govern. This book develops those capabilities from the ground up — beginning with why trade occurs, moving through country selection, negotiation, entry design, border compliance, logistics, marketing, currency, payments, financing, direct ownership, contracts, intellectual-property governance, ethics, and the integrated management system that ties every function together.

What sets this book apart is the integration. A worked example in one chapter uses the same firm, the same currency, and the same transaction that appeared two chapters earlier. A decision tool built for country selection reappears when assessing partner risk and again when designing a compliance dashboard. The reader does not simply learn concepts; the reader practises connecting them.

What this book helps you do:

• Construct an evidence-based recommendation for entering, piloting, expanding, or exiting a foreign opportunity.
• Prepare a customs-control file, landed-cost calculation, and compliance escalation path before goods reach the border.
• Negotiate distribution, licensing, and partnership agreements with defined authority, territory, performance, and exit terms.
• Build a foreign-exchange policy with eligible exposures, instruments, hedge percentages, approvals, and reporting.
• Design a funding request that connects cash conversion, borrowing base, repayment capacity, covenants, and currency.
• Integrate anti-bribery, sanctions, privacy, sustainability, and human-rights controls into one governance framework.

Key topics: the four levels of the business environment; scale economies and product differentiation; PESTLE analysis and the reversible validation plan; high-context and low-context communication; indirect exporting, agents, distributors, franchising, licensing, and subsidiaries; tariff classification, customs valuation, and rules of origin; containerization, warehousing, and last-mile service; segmentation, contribution margin, and campaign return on investment; transaction, translation, and economic exposure; documentary collections, open-account terms, and letter-of-credit mechanics; pre-shipment finance, receivables facilities, and equity; greenfield, acquisition, reinvestment, and regulatory review; contract architecture, dispute resolution, and force majeure; data-minimization, anti-bribery, and supply- chain responsibility.

Who it is for: learners who want to practise decisions, not just read about them — undergraduate and college students preparing for examinations, entrepreneurs building the skills to evaluate opportunities, managers assuming cross- border responsibilities, and professionals who need a desk reference that works through the numbers.

Get your copy and begin developing the capability to evaluate, structure, and govern international decisions with worked examples, decision tools, practice problems, and answer keys that follow a complete transaction from opportunity through execution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798173044518
• Reliure: Copertina flessibile
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg