This book covers essential elements of business and management providing foundations for understanding key contents both theoretical and practical. Most of the other books are thick and full of theories and cases that simply cannot be covered in a semester. To maintain focus and to enhance convenience for students, this book coherently insisted core body of knowledge about introductory level business and management issues. Tons of cases and complementary resources are easily found by searching websites and communities these days and this provided an opportunity to make this textbook as essential as possible.

현재훈 교수는 한국외국어대학교 국제경영학과에 재직 중이며, 영국 Sheffield 대학교에서 국제경영 전공으로 경영학 박사학위를 받았으며, 엘지씨엔에스, 인비전컨설팅 등에서 근무하였다. 주요 연구분야는 FDI, 지역통합협정, 자동차 산업 등이며 Asia Pacific Business Review, The Pacific Review, International Area, Review, EU학연구, 국제지역연구 등에 다수의 논문을 발표하였다.