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International Business

This guide is designed to help students and faculty access credible resources related to the study of international business.

Overview: Books

The Salt Lake Community College libraries have books in both physical and electronic formats available for use.  Titles are selected by a team of trained staff and librarians based on curricular needs.  Physical books are available at each of the four branches of the SLCC libraries. Books located at another branch can be placed on hold for pickup or to be sent to another SLCC library for convenience.

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Electronic books (eBooks) can be accessed anywhere with internet accessibility.  Some titles also allow you to check them out for offline access as well.

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Electronic Books

Notable Titles

International Business

by Mason A Carpenter and Sanjyot P Dunung

Call number:  This book is an open educational resource hosted at the Open Textbook Library

Summary: Carpenter and Dunung's International Business: The Opportunities and Challenges of a Flat World provides exploration into building, leading, and thriving in global organizations in an increasingly flat world. The authors define ”Flat world“ as one where service industries that dwarf manufacturing industries in terms of scale and scope, an Internet that pervades life and work, and networks define modern businesses, whether service or manufacturing. Carpenter and Dunung's text is designed to speak to technologically-savvy students who see national borders as bridges and not barriers. 

Price wars: how the commodities markets made our chaotic world

by Rupert Russell

Call number: South library HG6046 .R94 2022

Summary: A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war.

For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cages on the U.S. border. In Price Wars , he sets out on a worldwide journey to investigate what caused the wave of chaos that consumed the world in the 2010s.

Open: The progressive case for free trade, immigration, and global capital

by Kimberly Clausing

Call number:  South library HF1713 .C59 2019

Summary: Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right complain that they unjustly penalize workers back home. Kimberly Clausing takes on old and new skeptics in her compelling case that open economies are actually a force for good. Turning to the data to separate substance from spin, she shows how international trade makes countries richer, raises living standards, benefits consumers, and brings nations together. At a time when borders are closing and the safety of global supply chains is being thrown into question, she outlines a clear agenda to manage globalization more effectively, presenting strategies to equip workers for a modern economy and establish a better partnership between labor and the business community.

Developments in work and organizational psychology: implications for international business

Edited by Manfusa Shams and Paul R. Jackson

Call number: Jordan library HF5548.8 .D48 2006

Summary: The increasing global interdependency in economy and business transaction asserts the importance of documenting the most recent developments in global work and organizational behaviours, which are strongly influenced by the advancement of information technologies, virtual business transactions, multicultural business groups and expanded business settings across cultures. 

Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry

by Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz

Call number: South library HD9697.T45 G33 2022

Summary: The development of the mobile-phone industry into what we know today required remarkable cooperation between companies, governments, and industrial sectors. Companies developing cellular infrastructure, cellular devices, cellular network services, and eventually software and mobile semiconductors had to cooperate, not simply compete, with each other. In this global history of the mobile-phone industry, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly examine its development in the United States, Europe, Japan, and several emerging economies, including China and India. They present the evolution of mobile phones from the perspective of vendors of telephone equipment and network operators, users whose lives have been transformed by mobile phones, and governments that have fostered specific mobile-phone standards. Cellular covers the technical aspects of the cellphone, as well as its social and political impact.