International Business: The New Realities, 5th Edition

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• Sales tax, 288

• Sanctions, 164

• Saudi Arabia, trade barriers in, 187

• Scale economies, regional integration and, 203

• Scanning, country risk management and, 169–170

• Selection process, international human resources management, 489–490

• Self-reference criterion, 84, 492

• Services sector

  • cultural differences and, 78

  • exports, 365

  • foreign market suitability for, 339–340

  • globalization of, 43

  • in international business, 9–11, 11e, 12e

• Sexual harassment, 101, 502–503

• Shared values, corporate social ­responsibility and, 103

• Shariah laws, 161

• Sharia law, 73

• Sharing economy, 11

• Shipping, 369–370

• Short position, 283

• Short-term financing, 275

• Short-term orientation, 81

• The Simpsons (television show), 460

• Singapore, transparency in, 99

• Small and medium-size enterprises ...