The dynamic process of globalizing an organization's business activities is marked with uncertainty and high risk due to, in part, the global organizational ignorance of management. In this paper, the authors examine the nature and forms of global organizational ignorance as well as the...

The globalization of business has resulted in the emergence of hyper-competition in many industries. Given the geographic, economic, and cultural dispersion of markets, many organizations have developed network structures to increase their strategic flexibility and to preserve idiosyncratic...

Many expatriate managers have had difficulty in successfully adjusting to the demands of increasingly complex global assignments. There has been a wide range of generic explanations why the level of dissatisfaction with expatriate global competence has increased. One aspect that has not received...