Böcker av Michael Useem

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." -Jim Whittaker, first American to climb Mt. Everest

With unprecedented access to leaders of China's premier private businesses, an all-star team from the Wharton School and China Europe International Business School provide personal details into how these people have created and built world-class companies - and what leaders of Western businesses need to know to compete against these juggernauts

Attempts to reveal how shareholder pressures have transformed the inside structures of many American corporations since the late 1980s. Drawing on numerous sources, Useem shows that organizational changes have affected many areas of corporate life, and particularly its governance.

This book delineates the "inner circle" of top executives who play a leading role in the international corporate network by promoting a political environment favorable to all business.