Academy of International Business

International Academy of Corporate Management

International Management Development Association

U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

"Impacts of Peer-To-Peer Lodging Platform on the Traditional Lodging Industry: California vs. Southern Europe" (chapter 8), Disruptive Technologies for Business Development and Strategic Advantage

"Cross-Cultural Customs and Communication Styles" (chapter 8), Global Entrepreneurship, 3rd ed.

"Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets + Global Entrepreneurship" (chapter), Global Entrepreneurship, 3rd ed.

"The Role of Inward FDI for Economic Growth at the Time of Downturn: The Case of Russia" (chapter 9), Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Emerging Market Economies

Russian Oil and Gas: Global Impacts and Trends

Energy and Sustainability in the European Region: The Russian Factor

"Russia: Ambitions and Ammunitions in Global Economic Competitiveness" (chapter), Geo-Regional Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic Countries, and Russia

Preface, Geo-Regional Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic Countries, and Russia

“Drivers, Trends, and Outlook in Sustainable development: Comparing Best Practices in Northern Europe (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and California” (chapter)

Motivations and Obstacles for Small Business  Entrepreneurship in Russia: Fifteen Years in Transition

Entrepreneurship in the Russian Service Sector: Trends and Developments

Global Trends, Dynamics, and Imperatives for Strategic Development in Business Education in an Age of Disruption

Geo-Regional Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic Countries, and Russia

Russia is a major economy and important power in the global political-economic landscape. Following the dissolution of the USSR, Russia has become a premier global marketplace despite remaining enigmatic and challenging. The book serves as a concise guide in understanding Russia from an international business perspective. It explores strategic issues, drivers, constraints, costs, and risks of international expansion and includes analytical tools, practical applications, sources of information, and assistance in international business research. These are supplemented by analysis of Russia's macro-economic profile, drivers, strategic strengths and weaknesses in the comparative context, including its international market attractiveness and opportunities for U.S. companies. The book examines Russia's main industries, their profiles, trends and business attractiveness, trends, and marketing strategies. The discussion of Russia's regions covers regional subdivisions and economic profiles with the focus on Moscow, the leading economic region. The book also covers the drivers and trends of the Russian small business sector and entrepreneurial business venturing. Despite the onslaught of capitalism, Russia retains its relationship-driven culture. The book provides insights by evaluating the determinants of Russian culture, its national profile in major global cross-cultural studies, and practical cultural applications in business, negotiations, and communications. The book's pedagogy includes skill development exercises and cases on doing business in Russia.

Doing Business in Russia: A Concise Guide

As nations and regions worldwide enter a period of political-economic uncertainty and undergo changing strategic paradigms, the US market remains an attractive destination for individuals and business entities with a global entrepreneurial mindset. Numerous books and sources designated to starting and doing business in America have their target audiences and constraints often making them less attractive for aspiring foreign-based entrepreneurs or a small/medium size enterprises (SMEs) setting their sights on the USA. A sheer volume and narrow subject differentiation of a textbook may be appropriate for college students or professionals specialized in their respective academic fields or functional areas such as accounting or corporate governance, However entrepreneurs and SMEs in their start up endeavors are in need of relatively short and practical guidance covering subject-related essentials and providing a knowledge platform for their next steps in the process. While the large corporate segment is reasonably well covered in academic and practitioner publications in the field of international business, SMEs in the US and abroad, with some regional variations, often continue to languish on the sidelines of international business arena.

Doing Business in the United States: A Guide for Small Business Entrepreneurs With a Global Mindset

The proliferation of entrepreneurship, technological and business innovations, emerging social trends and lifestyles, employment patterns, and other developments in the global context involve creative destruction that transcends geographic and political boundaries and economic sectors and industries. This creates a need for an interdisciplinary exploration of disruptive technologies, their impacts, and their implications for various stakeholders widely ranging from government agencies to major corporations to consumer groups and individuals. Disruptive Technologies for Business Development and Strategic Advantage is a critical scholarly resource that explores innovation, imitation, and creative destruction as critical factors and agents of socio-economic growth and progress in the context of emerging challenges and opportunities for business development and strategic advantage. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as predictive value, business strategy, and sustainability, this book is geared towards entrepreneurs, business executives, business professionals, academicians, and researchers interested in strategic decision making using innovations and competitiveness.

Disruptive Technologies for Business Development and Strategic Advantage (Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development)

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You can contact Anatoly Zhuplev at Anatoly.Zhuplev@lmu.edu.

Anatoly Zhuplev is a professor of management at Loyola Marymount University and past chair of the Department of Management. He is a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to joining the College of Business Administration faculty in 1990, Zhuplev taught at Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and Moscow Management Institute. He also worked for several non-profit organizations in Russia. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards during his 15-year tenure in Russian education; he has also received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Loyola Marymount University MBA Program. Zhuplev is a member of the International Management Development Association, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of East-West Business and a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Transnational Management.

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