Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1.Introduction: The signals global demography sends -- 2.Addressing Malthus`challenge: Bayer`s acquisition of Monsanto -- 3.Demography and management -- 4.The challenge of productivity in aging countries -- 5.Belligerence and corruption in middle-age countries -- 6.The struggle for stability in youthful nations -- 7.Doing business in violence-prone nations: youth bulges and busts -- 8.Conclusion: opportunity and fear of failure -- Index

Alfred A. Marcus and Mazhar Islam examine how demographic changes introduce new challenges for businesses, with a focus on how the world today is divided between disproportionately old and young nations. Taking a broad international perspective, the book illustrates how demography affects underlying conditions in nations, presenting the risks and opportunities for businesses as well as a set of concrete obligations they owe to the nations in which they operate.


The book analyzes the key challenges that nations face based on whether they have principally old, young, or middle-aged populations, and how businesses can best respond to these challenges. Chapters particularly emphasize the impacts of immigration and technology, democratic governance, crime, corruption, and stability. Providing an in-depth examination of the relationships between youth bulges, youth busts and violence, the book grapples with the question of whether the world is likely to be a more peaceful place in the future, and the implications this could have for the global business environment.



Demography and the Global Business Environment will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of international business and strategic management. It will also be highly beneficial for business leaders looking for guidance about how to evaluate the opportunities and risks of investing in various countries.