In the dying days of World War II, the Japanese High Command devise a final and desperate plan to prevent inevitable defeat.That plan was code-named: Operation Sleeping Dragon.However, even the best-laid plans can go horribly wrong.Now, over 50 years after the end of the war, a recent discovery of a long lost submarine will bring to light a mission that could lead to the end of all humanity.

This book focuses on the tactics and strategies used in business-to-business contract negotiations. In addition to outlining general negotiation concepts, techniques and tools, it provides insight into relevant framework conditions, underlying mechanisms and also presents generally occurring terms and problems. Moreover, different negotiating styles are illustrated using an exemplary presentation of negotiation peculiarities in China, the USA and Germany. The presented tactics and strategi...

Business networks are an important economic phenomenon of increasing practical importance throughout Europe. This volume examines business networks from an interdisciplinary perspective, with many contributions dealing with a certain form of business network, the so-called cooperative or non-hierarchical. With regard to this specific form of cooperation the volume presents new economic findings, proposes a definition and discusses the governance structure of those networks.Moreover, this b...