Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States
Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States

Author: Aamir A. Rehman

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2007-12-10

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0071595252

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Why Dubai? It's been called the fastest-growing city on earth-a hub for the Gulf region experiencing unprecedented growth in energy, financial services, consumer goods, hospitality, retail, real estate, technology, shipping, and countless other industries. According to global strategist and advisor to Fortune 500 companies Aamir A. Rehman, no truly global firm can afford to ignore the booming Gulf region. The key, however, is to approach the region with savvy strategies for managing risks and drawbacks, while crafting business models designed for this unique market. Welcome to Dubai & Co. This up-close, in-depth guide will help you to: Deepen your understanding of a region of critical importance to global business Change your perceptions about the Gulf states and the broader Middle East Create corporate strategies that fit your firm and the region Expand your international business to make it faster, bigger, and better Access Gulf capital more effectively, enabling expansion and generating both local and global profits This essential hands-on book will show you how to successfully navigate the region's most attractive markets: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. You'll learn the key characteristics of each country-historical, demographic, political, economic, and regulatory-in order to adapt your business to each unique environment. You'll hear stories of major companies that paved the way for your success. Whether you're already doing business in the Middle East or just thinking about expanding your company into new markets, Dubai & Co. is the perfect guide to one of the greatest growth opportunities in the world.

Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States
Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States

Author: Aamir A. Rehman

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Why Dubai? It's been called the fastest-growing city on earth-a hub for the Gulf region experiencing unprecedented growth in energy, financial services, consumer goods, hospitality, retail, real estate, technology, shipping, and countless other industries. According to global strategist and advisor to Fortune 500 companies Aamir A. Rehman, no truly global firm can afford to ignore the booming Gulf region. The key, however, is to approach the region with savvy strategies for managing risks and drawbacks, while crafting business models designed for this unique market. Welcome to Dubai & Co. This up-close, in-depth guide will help you to: Deepen your understanding of a region of critical importance to global business Change your perceptions about the Gulf states and the broader Middle East Create corporate strategies that fit your firm and the region Expand your international business to make it faster, bigger, and better Access Gulf capital more effectively, enabling expansion and generating both local and global profits This essential hands-on book will show you how to successfully navigate the region's most attractive markets: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. You'll learn the key characteristics of each country-historical, demographic, political, economic, and regulatory-in order to adapt your business to each unique environment. You'll hear stories of major companies that paved the way for your success. Whether you're already doing business in the Middle East or just thinking about expanding your company into new markets, Dubai & Co. is the perfect guide to one of the greatest growth opportunities in the world.

Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players
Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players

Author: Aamir A. Rehman

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2010-01-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0071713247

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A detailed overview of Sharia-compliant finance—one of today’s most dynamic and influential sectors Islamic banks, which are becoming increasingly wealthier, are ever in search of sharia-compliant investments. In order to capitalize on this new development, investing professionals must familiarize themselves with this burgeoning investing method. Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance introduces bankers, money managers, and investors to the strategic and technical aspects of Islamic finance, covering a broad range of vehicles, including Islamic bonds, Sukuks, ETFs, and takaful (Islamic insurance). In an era of evaporating liquidity and endless adjustments to economic crises, Islamic finance is one of the few areas that continues to grow.

Dubai
Dubai

Author: Syed Ali

Publisher: Yale.ORIM

Published: 2010-05-28

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0300168160

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This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence. In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a playground for the global elite while skillfully downplaying its systemic human rights abuses and suppression of dissent. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, massive immigration, and vertiginous inequality. In Dubai: Gilded Cage, sociologist Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved its success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners enjoying opulent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labor and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost. “At last, a comprehensive expose of the economic and sexual exploitation that erected this utopia of greed. Syed Ali has seen the future in Dubai and it doesn’t work.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

Going Global
Going Global

Author: Susan C. Awe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1598846957

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This title helps small and medium-sized enterprises discover the advantages and disadvantages of international business and plan their entry or expansion strategies. In an age where globalizing a business has gone from an innovation to an imperative, how can entrepreneurs make sure their small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are set up for maximum worldwide reach from the very beginning? Going Global: An Informational Sourcebook for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses is an extraordinary resource that points the way to a wealth of available print and web resources for helping SME owners research their international sales potential. Going Global offers separate chapters on such critical topics as how to do a business plan, how to analyze the competition and the market, how to find foreign customers, how to set up an international business, how to manage a global business, and how to use the Internet to its fullest. No matter what stage of entering international trade a company is in, its owners, managers, and stakeholders will be able to quickly and easily find the information and expertise they need to compete in a world-based economy.

Cross-Cultural Leadership
Cross-Cultural Leadership

Author: Ahmad Salih

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1000072746

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For many decades, management in its research and practice has been in need of an alternative approach and paradigm to understanding human behaviours. Many studies and books have attempted to provide solutions to the individual, which ended up being a cultural dilemma with little success. This book provides a novel approach to address this dilemma by linking aspects from three knowledge domains; Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology. Cross-Cultural Leadership supports Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and makes it a practical construct and tool that both managers and researchers harness to understand what "cultural Chameleon" means. The book also renders support to Douglaisan Cultural Framework (DCF) by activating the role of the usually neglected fifth culture; the hermit by linking it to the metacognitive dimension of CQ. This link introduces for the first time the mechanism that individuals use to run through metacognitive processes to drive change. This book is a tool for individuals to help them work efficiently outside their homeland. Being an adaptive or culturally hybrid leader is among the most important competencies of the effective leaders in the 21st century. By focusing on comprehending the five cultures as elaborated in DCF, leaders and managers will be relieved from the dilemma of having to understand each and every national culture of their employees. This book will be of value to researchers, academics, managers, and students with an interest in leadership, management, organization studies, globalization, and innovation

Take the Money and Run
Take the Money and Run

Author: Eric C. Anderson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-03-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0313366144

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In this book, an expert in the field explains why the United States is the world's largest debtor nation and how America's relationship to creditor states is of growing economic, diplomatic, and even national security concern. Foreign countries are not merely investing in U.S. corporations but are purchasing them outright: Abu Dhabi bought Citigroup securities, Kuwait purchased a large block Merrill Lynch stock, and China bought Morgan Stanley's convertible securities-and this happened before the September 2008 meltdown of Wall Street. The means by which wealthy foreign states make these purchases are sovereign wealth funds, their surplus capital that they are seeking to invest in order to generate the greatest return. Currently, the largest sovereign wealth funds are held by the United Arab Emirates (of which Abu Dhabi is part), Norway, Singapore, Kuwait, and the People's Republic of China; Qatar and Libya are also in the top ten. The United States has no such fund (although the state of Alaska does). This book takes a close look at China's and Norway's sovereign wealth funds to explain how they work. The author also uses domestic examples (Harvard's endowment, the California's state employees' retirement fund) to propose how the United States could create a sovereign wealth fund, speculating that such a fund could solve the looming Social Security funds shortfall. Most important, the book elucidates the national security aspects of not having an American sovereign wealth fund when so many other nations-both friend and foe-have them.

Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations
Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations

Author: Ali Qassim Jawad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-06

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1137572450

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Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations is an essential book for researchers, policy makers and managers. It provides a new multi-disciplinary perspective on wellbeing and engagement, reviewing the latest research from several previously unrelated disciplines to develop a process for active committed enthusiasm (PACE), encompassing theory and clarifying the definitions of, and relationships between, wellbeing, engagement and related concepts. PACE allows researchers to model causal relationships, and policy makers and managers to analyze the potential impact of possible interventions. It demonstrates that, as nations, organizations and individuals fulfil their basic material needs, the impact of individual optimism, and other aspects of positive psychology, become paramount in maximizing wellbeing and engagement.

Middle East Politics for the New Millennium
Middle East Politics for the New Millennium

Author: Louis A. Gordon

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0739196987

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Middle East Politics for the New Millennium: A Constructivist Approach looks at the politics of one of the world’s most dynamic and challenging regions using the insights offered by constructivism. By analyzing the role of ideas and repeated interaction, the authors offer a refreshing long view analysis of the region’s politics that differs from the crisis-centric approach which is often utilized. Covering the countries from the Persian Gulf to Turkey, Egypt and across North Africa, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East Politics for the New Millennium will aid students and analysts alike in understanding Middle East politics.