International Business (13th Edition)

An effective balance between authoritative theory and meaningful practice.

International Business is an authoritative and engaging voice on conducting business in international markets. This text not only describes the ideas of international business but it also uses contemporary examples, scenarios, and cases to help readers effectively put theory into practice.

Customer Reviews:

factual errors, full of grammer and punctuation errors

By nyentrepreneur - July 7, 2012

First, this book is overly broad, and the authors over-explain everything. They do not know their audience. This book is intended for a higher level class, and authors should assume that the reader knows the basics of business before they pick this book up. Terrible.

Second, there are many factual errors. This is especially evident when the authors go too far into a tangential topic such as environmental science (it's science, not opinion!) and international law (they get it wrong). Authors- you need subject editors to go through your book if you're going to include these sections. If you can't use subject editors, remove the section instead of spreading misinformation.

Third, there are so many errors in grammar and punctuation-it distracts from the reading and reducing credibility.

Fourth, the references are out of date. This is 2012, you can't discuss current economic conditions of 2009 like it's today. If you are going to continue these... read more

Heavy

By Caitlin - October 2, 2011

This book is a very interesting read if you have the time. I'm doing an international business course at university and if you take in to consideration a lot of what they say and apply it it can be a very useful tool. Some of their points are debatable but it's the same with every text book. The point counterpoint sections do a brilliant job of giving both sides of a lot of interesting topics.

Good

By Faleta B. Delaney - February 21, 2013

I got it in good condition without any major damages or highlighting. Just what I needed for school. If another book is priced cheaper than another site, I will definitely purchase a textbook again.