Archive for the ‘Global Supply Chains’ Category

This essential resource guide to exporting will help you enter the exporting business, save time and money and comply with complex federal regulations. This book helps you develop an export plan and keep your business up-to-date with trends in international trade. You will learn how to: enter the export market, identify target markets and price your product. Helpful forms and checklists are provided to help you through the export documentation and shipping process.

Title: Exporting Guide for California Business
Author: J.H. (Ham) Dethero is a 1958 Thunderbird graduate. He is an international business consultant, writer and instructor, with a 50-year background in international banking, trade and state government. His career is detailed in “Who’s Who in America.” He lives in Lafayette, Calif.
Publisher: California Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento; 3rd edition (Jan. 21, 2009)
Price: $39.99 ($31.99 for chamber members)
ISBN: 978-1579972530
Description: Perfect Paperback, 276 pages
Information: www.calbizcentral.com

For more than three decades, “The Supply Management Handbook” (formerly The Purchasing Handbook) has been vital for purchasing and supply professionals in every field and industry. This latest edition comprehensively updates and revises this classic to encompass the ongoing shift from simple purchasing to a new, more technology-based imperative–identifying and managing supply chain sources and strategies.

Title: The Supply Mangement Handbook, 7th Edition
Authors: Joseph L. Cavinato, Ph.D., is ISM professor of supply chain management at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz. Ralph G. Kauffman, Ph.D. is a professor at the University of Houston-Downtown. Anna E. Flynn, Ph.D., is vice president and associate professor at the Institute for Supply Management, which produces the influential Manufacturing Report, a monthly economic indicator.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 7 edition (June 13, 2006)
Price: $81.87
ISBN: 978-0071445139
Information: Barnes & Noble

“Global Strategy” deals with the question of how firms can compete in a global environment. Thunderbird professors Andrew Inkpen, Ph.D., and Kannan Ramaswamy, Ph.D., examine the issues considered central to the study of strategic management in a global context, such as the nature of global advantage, strategic alliances, competing in emerging markets, international corporate governance, global knowledge management and ethical issues in international business.

Title: Global Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Advantage across Borders
Authors: Andrew Inkpen and Kannan Ramaswamy are professors of management at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz. Both have expertise in global stragegy and specialize in working with corporate clients from the oil and gas industry. Inkpen, Ph.D., is the J. Kenneth and Jeanette Seward Chair in Global Strategy, and Ramaswamy, Ph.D., is the William D. Hacker Chair.
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0195167207
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 24, 2005)
Information: www.oxfordscholarship.com