Balancing authoritative theory and meaningful practice, International Business: Environments and Operations shows you how to conduct business in international markets. The authors' descriptions and ideas of international business are enhanced with contemporary examples, scenarios, and cases that help you effectively apply what you've learned. Now in its 17th Edition, International Business remains one of the best-selling and most authoritative international business texts available. As rigorous and practical as ever, this edition remains current through updated author-written cases and expanded coverage of relevant political, economic, social, and institutional changes.

John D. Daniels, the Samuel N. Friedland Chair of Executive Management emeritus at the University of Miami, received his BBA, MBA, and PhD respectively at the University of Miami, University of the Americas, and the University of Michigan. He holds an honorary doctorate from UPAO in Peru and served as Chancellor (Honorary) of the University College of the Caribbean in Jamaica. His dissertation won first place in the award competition of the Academy of International Business, and he won a decade award from the Journal of International Business Studies along with a silver medal award for contributions. His articles have appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Advances in International Marketing, California Management Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review, International Trade Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Management International Review, Multinational Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Transnational Corporations, andWeltwirtschaftlichesArchiv. He has published 15 books, most recently Multinational Enterprises and the Changing World Economy (coedited with Ray Loveridge, Tsai-Mei Lin, and Alan M. Rugman), three volumes on Multinational Enterprise Theory, and three volumes on International Business and Globalization (all coedited with Jeffrey Krug). On its 30th anniversary, Management International Review referred to him as "one of the most prolific American IB scholars." He served as president of the Academy of International Business and dean of its Fellows, as well as chairperson of the international division of the Academy of Management, which named him Outstanding Educator of the Year in 2010. Professor Daniels has worked and lived a year or longer in seven different countries, worked shorter stints in approximately 30 other countries on six continents, and traveled in many more. His foreign work has been a combination of private sector, governmental, teaching, and research assignments. He was formerly a faculty member at Georgia State University and The Pennsylvania State University, director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Indiana University, and holder of the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair at the University of Richmond.

He and his wife, Letty, have been married since 1963, and have two sons.

Lee Radebaugh is the Emeritus Whitmore Professor of International Business and former Director of the Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Global Management Center/CIBER at Brigham Young University (BYU). Previously, he was the Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management, Associate Director of the MBA program, and Director of the School of Accountancy. In his prior position as CIBER Director at BYU, he was responsible for international business programs in the Marriott School of Management at BYU, outreach to the business and academic communities and establishing exchange agreements with universities abroad. He led student and faculty groups to Asia, the Middle East, and South America. From 2000-2003, he was the President of the Brazil Porto Alegre South Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He received his DBA and MBA from Indiana University and his BS in accounting from BYU. He taught at The Pennsylvania State University from 1972 to 1980 and was a visiting professor at ESAN in Lima, Peru and at Glasgow University in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the coauthor of several books, including International Business Environments and Operations and International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises, both of which have been translated into several languages, including Mandarin Chinese. He has also published several monographs and articles on international business and international accounting. In 2019, he was awarded the Silver Medal for Scholarship by the Academy of International Business for substantive contributions to JIBS. His international research interests include the impact of exchange rates on operations, accounting, and financial reporting; the global implementation of IFRS; and the role of culture and institutional factors on international accounting and international business. He was recognized as the International Person of the Year for the State of Utah in 1998 for his service to the Utah business community. A past president of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, he was given the Outstanding Service Award for the section in 2007, and in 1998, he was named the "Outstanding International Educator" of the International Section of the AAA. He was elected to the Fellows of the Academy of International Business in 1990.

Lee and his wife, Tanya, are the parents of six children and 14 grandchildren.

Daniel P. Sullivan, Professor of Global Studies at the Alfred Lerner College of Business of the University of Delaware, received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina. He researches a range of topics, including globalization and business, international management, global strategy, competitive analysis, and corporate governance. His work on these topics has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Law and Society Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, and the Online Learning Journal. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review. Professor Sullivan has been honored for both his research and teaching, receiving grants and winning awards for both activities while at the University of Delaware and, his former affiliation, the Freeman School of Tulane University. He is a recipient of the Academy of International Business, JIBS Silver Medal inrecognition for intellectual contributions published in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the premier journal in the international business domain. The Silver Medal was awarded to 48 IB scholars who have published at least five significant papers in JIBS since its inception. He has been awarded numerous teaching honors -- most notably, he has been voted Outstanding Teacher by the students of 19 different executive, MBA, and undergraduate classes at the University of Delaware and Tulane University. Professor Sullivan has taught, designed, and administered a range of in-class and online graduate, undergraduate, and nondegree courses on topics spanning globalization and business, international business operations, international management, strategic perspectives, executive leadership, and corporate strategy. In the US, he has delivered lectures and courses at several university and companies. In addition, he has led courses in several foreign countries, including China, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. Finally, he has worked with many managers and consulted with several multinational enterprises on issues of international business.

Reid W. Click is Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He received his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he studied economics and international business, and his undergraduate BA in economics from Kenyon College in Ohio. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of global financial markets, international financial management, macroeconomics in the global economy, and finance for development. An expert on international financial risk and risk management, his academic work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. After research appointments in Asia, including one as a Fulbright Scholar at the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines, he became Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Economics in the field of international finance. At George Washington University, he has served in leadership positions to develop the international business programs, most recently as the founding Director of the joint International Finance Corporation--Milken Institute Capital Markets Program. Previously, he served as the Faculty Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER), part of the national CIBER network funded by a grant from the US Department of Education. He has also served as chairperson of George Washington's renowned Department of International Business, and has run eight student and faculty programs investigating business institutions, finance, and economic development in Rwanda. In addition to his academic work, he has been a consultant to several international organizations, notably the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Development Credit and the US International Development Finance Corporation, on matters pertaining to international banking, financial risk, and risk management.