Growing Your Business Globally

by Robert A. Taft

Providing insightful instruction, practical guidelines, samples of actual documents, and examples from real companies, this book provides a thorough and valuable resource to anyone interested in expanding internationally. Taft takes the reader step-by-step from company assessment of export readiness through the strategic export process. It also discusses international business operations, looking at the best practices of companies in these operations. The reader then uses this information to develop a business plan and venturer's agreement for an international joint venture. The culmination is a negotiation between two companies from different countries to develop a single international joint venture.

350 pages, Hardcover

First published March 14, 2005

About the author

Robert A. Taft is President and CEO of The Taft Group, an international trade consulting and training firm. Currently, he serves on the Florida District Export Council, the Florida International Development Council, and is a founding member of the Orlando Foreign Affairs Committee. His clients include the U.S. Department of Defense.