Managing the Global Firm (RLE International Business)

This volume assesses the situation for multinationals at the beginning of the 1990s, bringing together contributions from academics recognized as world leaders in the field and from practitioners with wide experience in international management. Drawing on perspectives from Europe, the USA and Japan, the contributors outline the shape of the global firm of the future. They focus squarely on the development of the corporation as a whole, rather than on the narrow management of individual foreign subsidiaries, and they also explore the specific implications for areas such as strategic planning s

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Bartlett, Christopher A.
Other Persons:	Doz, Yves (contributor) ; Hedlund, Gunnar (contributor)
Publisher:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
Subject:	Multinationales Unternehmen \| Transnational corporation \| Globalisierung \| Globalization
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (372 p)
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: International Business Routledge Library Editions: International Business Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Front Cover; Managing the GlobalFirm; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The changing agenda for researchers and practitioners: Christopher A. Bartlett, Yvos Doz, Gunnar Hedlund; Part I:Conceptions of global management; 1. Action in heterarchies: new approaches to managing theMNC: Gunnar Hedlund and Dag Rolander; 2.International sequential advantages and network flexibility: Bruce Kogut; 3. Managing globalization as a self-renewing process: experiences of Japanese MNCs:Ikujiro Nonaka 4. Organizing for world-wide advantage: Roderick E. Whiteand Thomas A. PoynterPart II:Management of multinational processes and systems; 5. Control, change, and flexibility: the dilemma of transnational collaboration:Yves Doz, C. K. Prahalad, and Gary Hamel; 6. Effective strategic planning processes in the multinational corporation: Peter Lorange and Gilbert Probst; 7. New information systems and the changing structure of MNCs: Peter Hagström; 8. Rediscovering functions in the MNC: the role of expertise in firms' responses to shifting exchange rates:Donald R. Lessard and Nitin Nohria Part III:Innovation and R&D in the MNC9. Managing innovation in the transnational corporation: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal; 10. International decentralization of R&D ―the organizational challenges: Lars Håkanson; 11. Internal and external linkages in the MNC: the case of R&D subsidiaries in Japan: D. Eleanor Westney; Part IV:The concepts in use; 12. Research on managing the multinational company: a practitioner's experiences: E. Ralph Biggadike 13. Building a dynamic intelligent network: lessons from the telecommunications revolution for the MNC organization of the future:Håkan LedinIndex;
ISBN:	978-0-415-63918-7 ; 978-1-135-13492-1 ; 978-0-415-63918-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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