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Managing Multinational Teams - Global Perspectives (Hardcover, New): Joseph L.C. Cheng, Michael A. Hitt Managing Multinational Teams - Global Perspectives (Hardcover, New)
Joseph L.C. Cheng, Michael A. Hitt; Edited by Debra L. Shapiro, Mary Ann Glinow, Joseph L.C. Cheng
R3,463 Discovery Miles 34 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Two recent developments from globalization have fundamentally altered the nature of work organizations: (1) the workforce has become increasingly diverse in national and cultural origins, and (2) work assignments are increasingly performed by teams consisting of members located in different countries. Together, these changes have resulted in employees increasingly finding themselves working in culturally diverse, geographical dispersed, multinational teams. Yet, relatively little scholarship has been done to study the dynamics of such teams and how they can be better managed. The current volume presents cutting-edge theorizing and research from a multidisciplinary (e.g., psychology-,
communications/technology-, organizational behavior-, and strategy-oriented) group of scholars who have been active in studying multinational teams in a global context.

This book is divided into three parts. The first includes four chapters focusing on culture and other intra-group factors that affect the effective functioning of multinational teams. The second includes five chapters that examine the effect of technology and other external influences on team processes and outcomes. The third part includes four chapters dealing with leadership and management issues. The two final chapters were written by authors who have been actively involved as organizers of multi-country academic research teams whose life spans many years and continues today. Cumulatively, this book??'s chapters provide management scholars a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, at many levels of analysis, and include insights borne from the authors??? observation-based and/or living-based experience withthe culturally-challenging issues they discuss. Additionally, these chapters also provide practicing managers useful ideas on both intra- and external-group dynamics that help increase their understanding about the effective functioning of multinational teams. As a result, this book offers both breadth and depth on the topic of managing multinational teams in a global context that promise to make its contents of interest to many audiences.

The Global Market - Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders (Hardcover): J.A. Quelch The Global Market - Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders (Hardcover)
J.A. Quelch
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contributors include Rawi Abdelal, David J. Arnold, David Bell, Ernst R. Berndt, Pankaj Ghemawat, Stephen A. Greyser, Morten T. Hansen, Douglas B. Holt, Rajiv Lal, Daniel Litvin, Yu Liu, Arthur McCaffrey, Nitin Nohria, John A. Quelch, Ananth Raman, V. Kasturi Rangan, Walter Salmon, Nick Scheele, Hans-Willi Schroiff, Alvin J. Silk, Martin Sorrell, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Earl L. Taylor, Richard S. Tedlow, Luc Wathieu, Noel Watson, and Gerald Zaltman

Praise for "The Global Market"

"The papers in this book capture some of the latest creative thinking on how to tackle the design and implementation of global marketing strategies."
--Raoul Pinnell, vice president, global brands and communications, Shell International

"A thoughtful examination of some of the critical issues faced by both practitioners and academics concerned with global marketing. The papers take a fresh look at questions such as the impact of regionalization, pressures to integrate and/or fragment strategy, managing global firms, and marketing in poor countries."
--Stephen J. Kobrin, W illiam Wurster Professor of Multinational Management the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

"The challenges affecting global marketers today are more complex and more important than ever. This book provides intelligent guidance on all the major issues."
--L. J. Kim, vice president, international marketing and sales development, Yahoo! Inc.

"Two key challenges facing marketers are how to balance globalization and localization, and how to balance corporate branding versus product branding around the world. This book provides intelligent guidance on both."
--Anil Menon, vice president, corporate brandstrategy and worldwide market intelligence, IBM

Heineken in Africa - A Multinational Unleashed (Hardcover): Olivier van Beemen Heineken in Africa - A Multinational Unleashed (Hardcover)
Olivier van Beemen
R805 R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Save R50 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For Heineken, 'rising Africa' is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presence boosts economic development on the continent. But is this true? Investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen has spent years seeking the answer, and his conclusion is damning: Heineken has hardly benefited Africa at all. On the contrary, there are some shocking skeletons in its African closet: tax avoidance, sexual abuse, links to genocide and other human rights violations, high-level corruption, crushing competition from indigenous brewers, and collaboration with dictators and pitiless anti-government rebels. Heineken in Africa caused a political and media furore on publication in The Netherlands, and was debated in their Parliament. It is an unmissable expose of the havoc wreaked by a global giant seeking profit in the developing world.

Cases and Projects in International Management (Hardcover): Mead Cases and Projects in International Management (Hardcover)
Mead
R2,811 Discovery Miles 28 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Culture may not be the only factor to affect organizational structure. Size, strategic location, the industrial climate, the complexity of the task in hand and the kind of technology used all exert an influence and profoundly affect the relations between members of an organization. Managers therefore have to contend with weighing culture against other variables when trying to implement organizational structure.If culture is but one among a range of factors, then why are cross-cultural management skills so important? Mead crisply answers this question at the outset and his views may be summarized as follows. Today's business world is global and therefore firms are forced to establish branches and subsidiaries outside their national boundaries. Managers have to deal with people from other cultures, and it is imperative that they develop the ability to interact with individuals who have different cultural priorities. Effective cross-cultural management increasingly means working with people from different cultures and learning to tolerate differences when devising shared priorities.In today's economic climate, market forces appear to have an increasingly anthropological dimension. The ethnocentric manager, for example, who is unable or unwilling to deal with members of other cultures has fewer career opportunities. To accommodate these changes management schools are giving increasing priority to teaching cross-cultural management skills. International Management combines theory and practice, and includes a variety of exercises to enable students to apply general concepts to specific situations.Mead acknowledges the difficulty in providing a single definition of culture, but does not duckthe issue. Instead he provides a succinct account of the sociological and anthropological positions before moving on to the management literature. This publication deserves a warm welcome because it acknowledges the contribution made by anthropologists to the understanding of culture. As Richard Mead demonstrates, there is clearly a great deal of scope for making more use of anthropological insights in clarifying the role of culture in international management. The book is aimed at students and has been written with admirable clarity, and should be of value to anyone involved in teaching applied social sciences.

Being Local Worldwide - ABB and the Challenge of Global Management (Hardcover): Jacques Belanger, Etc, Christian Berggren,... Being Local Worldwide - ABB and the Challenge of Global Management (Hardcover)
Jacques Belanger, Etc, Christian Berggren, Torsten Bjorkman, Christoph Kohler
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation created in 1987, "the most successful cross-border merger since Royal Dutch linked up with Britain's Shell in 1907." The coming together of two longtime national champions in the electrotechnical industry, Sweden's ASEA and Switzerland's Brown Boveri, marked the birth of a company with truly global aspirations, one whose apparent genius for combining strong central planning with local autonomy for its plants has made it a trendsetter.

An international team of reseachers assesses the dynamic interplay of the forces of convergence and diversity present in ABB. Together they examine the actual workings of this multinational in order to learn to what degree the corporate strategies are achieved in its plants. Based on a multilevel organizational study, their book compares seven plants in six countries on three continents.

Advances in International Comparative Management (Hardcover): Srinivas Prasad Advances in International Comparative Management (Hardcover)
Srinivas Prasad; Series edited by Richard B Peterson, Joseph L.C. Cheng
R3,453 Discovery Miles 34 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume introduces the AICM Distinguished Scholar Award and Research Forum which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the cross-national or cross-cultural study of organizations and management. This volume offers an important article by Professor Harry C. Triandis of the University of Illinois who was the recipient of the 1998 AICM Distinguished Scholar Award, with commentaries by leading researchers in the areas of international organizational behavior and human resource management. Additional articles cover a wide range of management topics with an international focus, including: organizational risk taking, corporate governance, performance appraisal, distributive justice values, strategic human resource management, and expatriate performance. These articles, along with the Research Forum papers, present a rich diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and represent some of the best thinking in the field.

Taxing Multinationals in Europe (Paperback): Ernesto Crivelli, Ruud A. De Mooij, J. E. J. De Vrijer, Shafik Hebous, Alexander... Taxing Multinationals in Europe (Paperback)
Ernesto Crivelli, Ruud A. De Mooij, J. E. J. De Vrijer, Shafik Hebous, Alexander D. Klemm
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This paper aims to contribute to the European policy debate on corporate income tax reform in three ways. First, it takes a step back to review the performance of the CIT in Europe over the past several decades and the important role played by MNEs in European economies. Second, it analyses corporate tax spillovers in Europe with a focus on the channels and magnitudes of both profit shifting and CIT competition. Third, the paper examines the progress made in European CIT coordination and discusses reforms to strengthen the harmonization of corporate tax policies, in order to effectively reduce both tax competition and profit shifting.

Multilatinas - Strategies for Internationalisation (Paperback): Veneta Andonova, Mauricio Losada-Otalora Multilatinas - Strategies for Internationalisation (Paperback)
Veneta Andonova, Mauricio Losada-Otalora
R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The challenges faced by Latin American multinational companies, or multilatinas, often require unique strategies tailored to a demanding global environment. This book studies the strategies of internationalism exercised by large multilatinas, offering the first systematic, quantitative effort to examine the pattern of their international investments within the context of their competitive position in the domestic market. Multilatinas uncovers common strategies among sixty-two multilatinas from six countries, and emphasizes the unique challenges they face, as well as the diversity of their organizational resources. It also brings the institutional environment of Latin American countries to the fore, assessing its role as an essential component in understanding internationalization decisions. Finally, the book studies the role of non-market organizational resources such as bribes, negotiations and favours in business strategies. Multilatinas is an invaluable read for students, scholars, practitioners and executives studying Latin America's place in international business.

The Use of Sustainability Information - Empirical Evidence from Multinational Corporations (Hardcover, New edition): Daniel Gayk The Use of Sustainability Information - Empirical Evidence from Multinational Corporations (Hardcover, New edition)
Daniel Gayk
R2,138 Discovery Miles 21 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sustainability management is a prime topic for multinational corporations. Achieving ambitious sustainability goals, however, is affected by how employees use sustainability information within their decision-making. Little is yet known about the use of sustainability information at multinational corporations. This study therefore empirically addresses this gap and elaborates the main influencing factors of sustainability information use. The findings have important implications for researchers and practitioners such as top executives, sustainability managers and management accountants at multinational corporations.

The Myth of the Global Corporation (Paperback, Revised): Paul Doremus, William W. Keller, Louis W. Pauly, Simon Reich The Myth of the Global Corporation (Paperback, Revised)
Paul Doremus, William W. Keller, Louis W. Pauly, Simon Reich
R1,006 R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Save R74 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Critics and defenders of multinational corporations often agree on at least one thing: that the activities of multinationals are creating an overwhelmingly powerful global market that is quickly rendering national borders obsolete. The authors of this book, however, argue that such expectations commonly rest on a myth. They examine key activities of multinational corporations in the United States, Japan, and Europe and explore the relationship between corporate behavior and national institutions and cultures. They demonstrate that the world's leading multinationals continue to be shaped decisively by the policies and values of their home countries and that their core operations are not converging to create a seamless global market.

With a wealth of fresh evidence, the authors show that Japanese and German multinationals, in particular, remain only weakly committed to laissez-faire policy orientations and continue to exhibit strong allegiance to national goals in such areas as investment and employment. They also bring to light the consequences of enduring differences in government policies on, for example, industrial cartels, capital markets, and research and development.

The authors agree that the world economy is becoming more complex and integrated as overt barriers to trade and investment fall away. But they conclude that the extent of this integration is decisively limited by structural divergence at the level of the firm. The book will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the growing interdependence of still-distinctive industrial societies and the wellsprings of the true global economy.

The Role of the Subsidiary in International Business - Functional Responsibilities in the MNE's Value Network (Hardcover,... The Role of the Subsidiary in International Business - Functional Responsibilities in the MNE's Value Network (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Marlena Dzikowska
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reflecting on the evolving organisation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their growing presence in international business, this book focuses on value creation by subsidiaries in transition economies, and uses Poland as an example. Drawing on internalisation and business network theory, the author analyses the role of the subsidiary with the aim of explaining the mechanisms of subsidiary functional specialisation and its operationalisation. The book presents an innovative model illustrating the determinants of the functional responsibilities of subsidiaries, whilst providing an empirical analysis of foreign subsidiaries in Poland. Addressing a vital topic in international business and management studies, this Palgrave Pivot will be useful for researchers, students and practitioners.

Cost Accounting in German Multinational Companies - An Empirical Analysis (Hardcover, New edition): Alexander Schulz Cost Accounting in German Multinational Companies - An Empirical Analysis (Hardcover, New edition)
Alexander Schulz
R2,558 Discovery Miles 25 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cost accounting traditions differ across countries, especially between Germany and the US/UK. Consequently, multinational companies often face cross-national differences in the design of their subunits' cost accounting systems. To improve comparability and facilitate control, multinational companies seek to globally align these systems. In this respect, they have to balance the needs of the headquarters and the subunits. By the means of a mixed-method approach, this study analyses the design of cost accounting systems from both perspectives. It finds empirical evidence for cross-case and cross-country differences in the complexity and standardization of cost accounting systems in subunits of German multinational companies and identifies important determinants and success factors. The findings have implications for researchers and practitioners in the field of management accounting.

Multilatinas - Strategies for Internationalisation (Hardcover): Veneta Andonova, Mauricio Losada-Otalora Multilatinas - Strategies for Internationalisation (Hardcover)
Veneta Andonova, Mauricio Losada-Otalora
R2,766 Discovery Miles 27 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The challenges faced by Latin American multinational companies, or multilatinas, often require unique strategies tailored to a demanding global environment. This book studies the strategies of internationalism exercised by large multilatinas, offering the first systematic, quantitative effort to examine the pattern of their international investments within the context of their competitive position in the domestic market. Multilatinas uncovers common strategies among sixty-two multilatinas from six countries, and emphasizes the unique challenges they face, as well as the diversity of their organizational resources. It also brings the institutional environment of Latin American countries to the fore, assessing its role as an essential component in understanding internationalization decisions. Finally, the book studies the role of non-market organizational resources such as bribes, negotiations and favours in business strategies. Multilatinas is an invaluable read for students, scholars, practitioners and executives studying Latin America's place in international business.

Managing Chineseness - Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Daphnee Lee Managing Chineseness - Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Daphnee Lee
R3,497 Discovery Miles 34 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions of 'Chineseness'. Sociologist Manuel Castells once hailed Singapore as 'the only true Leninist project that has survived', and Lee revisits the Singapore 'social laboratory', addressing recent dialectics that transpire within the global political economy. Currently, professional actors need to address the demands of dual hegemony in response to China's rise in the Western-dominated capitalist political economy. Underlying these constructions are enduring dispositions that mediate interpretations of professionalism. The author puts to test the potential for change, surveying a large cohort of teachers as makers of future professionals. The question is, does change occur in the domain of practice or the habitus, if it is possible in the first place? The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sociology, Identity and Ethnicity, Business Management, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of Education.

Disaster Capitalism - Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (Paperback): Antony Loewenstein Disaster Capitalism - Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (Paperback)
Antony Loewenstein
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on or ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein's re porting is a dark history of multinational corpo rations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valu able commodity.

Multinational Enterprises And Host Country Development (Hardcover): Holger Gorg Multinational Enterprises And Host Country Development (Hardcover)
Holger Gorg
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development is a unique collection of papers looking at different aspects of the link between multinational enterprises and their effects on the host countries' economies. The volume studies effects of multinationals on R&D, innovation, productivity, wages, as well as growth and survival of firms in the host countries, and distinguishes direct and indirect effects through spillovers. All the analyses are conducted using firm level data for countries as diverse as China, Ireland, Sweden, Ghana, the UK or a group of countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This volume is a valuable reading for graduate students and researchers wishing to investigate the impact of multinationals.

Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation - Foundations, Applications and New Directions (Hardcover): Florian A.A.... Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation - Foundations, Applications and New Directions (Hardcover)
Florian A.A. Becker-Ritterspach, Susanne Blazejewski, Christoph Doerrenbacher, Mike Geppert
R2,720 Discovery Miles 27 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the past decade, politics perspectives in international business have moved into the mainstream repertoire of research, theory development and teaching about the organisational behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs). Politics perspectives contribute substantially to understanding the behaviour in and of MNCs in their different contexts and environments but so far these burgeoning perspectives have not been systematically and comprehensively reviewed. This book offers the first detailed overview of the theoretical foundations, methodologies and empirical applications of politics perspectives in MNCs. A group of international authors discuss twelve seminal contributions to the study of politics, power and conflict in MNCs, followed by a summary and synthesis of the literature into a comprehensive analytical framework. The book closes with a discussion of future directions in the field. This is a thorough introduction to political behaviour in MNCs written for scholars and graduate students in the fields of organisation studies and international business.

The Rise of the Global Company - Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover, New title): Robert Fitzgerald The Rise of the Global Company - Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover, New title)
Robert Fitzgerald
R2,753 Discovery Miles 27 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the modern world. Robert Fitzgerald explores the major role of multinational enterprises in the events of world history, from the nineteenth century to the present, revealing how the growth of businesses that operated across borders contributed to an unprecedented worldwide transformation and deepening interdependence between countries. He demonstrates how international businesses shaped the economic development and competitiveness of nations, their politics and sovereignty, and the balance of power in international relations. The Rise of the Global Company uses the lessons of history to question prominent contemporary interpretations of multinationals and their consequences, and offers a truly wide-ranging survey of multinational enterprise, spanning two hundred years and five continents.

Global Brands - The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Hardcover): Teresa Da Silva Lopes Global Brands - The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Hardcover)
Teresa Da Silva Lopes
R1,430 R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Save R198 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a world focused on science and new technology, brands help to explain why several of the world's multinational corporations have little to do with either. Rather they are old firms with little critical investment in patents or copyrights. For these firms, the critical intellectual property is trademarks. Global Brands, first published in 2007, explains how the world's largest multinationals in alcoholic beverages achieved global leadership; considers the predominant corporate governance structures for such firms; and looks at why these firms form alliances with direct competitors. Brands also determine the waves of mergers and acquisitions in the beverage industry. Global Brands contrasts with existing studies by providing a new dimension to the literature on the growth of multinationals through the focus on brands, using an institutional and evolutionary approach based on original and published sources about the industry and the firms.

Internationalization Of China's Privately Owned Enterprises: Determinants And Pattern Selection (Hardcover): Wen Xiao,... Internationalization Of China's Privately Owned Enterprises: Determinants And Pattern Selection (Hardcover)
Wen Xiao, Liyun Liu
R3,462 Discovery Miles 34 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since China's adoption of the "go global" strategy, more and more of China's privately owned enterprises have focused on outward foreign direct investment , and by doing so they have become the major market participants in China's internationalization process. This book presents authoritative academic and professional insights into the determinants of internationalization of China's indigenous privately owned enterprises. The case studies, in-depth interviews and investigations in this book will capture the interest of the readers and provide them with the background material and understanding of the determinants and possible pattern selection for internationalization of China's privately owned enterprises.

E-Mobility and Related Clean Technologies from an Empirical Corporate Finance Perspective - State of Economic Research,... E-Mobility and Related Clean Technologies from an Empirical Corporate Finance Perspective - State of Economic Research, Sourcing Risks, and Capital Market Perception (Paperback, New edition)
Christian Babl
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book deals with the use of clean technologies and in particular of electronic mobility from the perspective of the empirical capital market. The author sheds light on the developments of economic research in the past 20 years, identifies research gaps and analyses them in detail if data is sufficient. Based on the example of rare earths, he presents the impact of future raw material shortages when using mobile electronic technologies and proposes possible solutions for all market players from a financial research perspective. In addition, the book presents a first assessment of the industry's innovation development by means of the capital-market oriented evaluation of corporate cooperations in the field of electronic mobility.

Understanding Multinationals from Emerging Markets (Paperback): Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ravi Ramamurti Understanding Multinationals from Emerging Markets (Paperback)
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ravi Ramamurti
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why have relatively poor and underdeveloped countries been able to spawn so many global firms in the last two decades? Are emerging market multinationals (EMNCs) really different from successful multinationals from developed economies? This book tackles these and other fundamental theoretical questions about EMNCs. A distinguished group of researchers assesses the unique strategies and behavior of successful EMNCs, from the Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei to the Indian conglomerate Tata, to the South African beverages firm SABMiller. They address a range of topics, such as the drivers of internationalization by EMNCs; their distinctive process capabilities; how they catch up with established rivals on technology; how state ownership or business-group affiliation affects their behavior; and why they sometimes relocate their headquarters to advanced economies. This book will appeal to scholars and graduate students in global strategy and international business, as well as consultants of multinational companies, looking for state-of-the-art analysis of EMNCs.

Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance - Chinese Construction Firms in Nigeria (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Yomi... Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance - Chinese Construction Firms in Nigeria (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Yomi Babatunde, Sui Pheng Low
R4,542 Discovery Miles 45 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores China's global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction industries in China and Nigeria. This provides better understanding of the linkages between TQM, based on the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 9000 quality management systems (QMS), and national culture, based on Emeritus Professor Geert Hofstede's national cultural dimensions. Premised on the culture-specificity and bi-directionality relationships between TQM and national culture, this book investigates the construction industries in China and Nigeria including their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) as well as an appraisal of their historical and emerging relationships. In its conceptual approach, this book presents different models in the lead up to its primary theoretical contribution of a quality management assessment model (QMAM) that was adopted during the study's field work. The book also presents relevant lessons relating to cross cultural management and quality performance not only to the Nigerians but also other foreign players in Nigeria's construction industry.

Cross-Border Management - Theory, Method and Application (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Rongxing Guo Cross-Border Management - Theory, Method and Application (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Rongxing Guo
R4,573 Discovery Miles 45 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world. In this context, the use of the word "new" has two meanings. The first relates to a new definition of borders (which are natural, institutional, functional, or mixed); the second concerns the fact that the book applies (and, where necessary, develops) analytical tools, methods and models that are different from those used in other similar books. The objectives of this book are: to clarify whether existing management theories and methods can be effectively applied in an entity (which can be defined as a sovereign country, a region, a community, a culture, or a firm) as the latter increasingly interacts with the rest of the world; to develop qualitative and quantitative methods to help leaders make optimal decisions for their entity and, at the same time, to maximize the positive (or minimize the negative) effects of those decisions on the rest of the world; and to design workable cross-border cooperation plans and conflict-management schemes that allow policy-makers to better cope with the challenges and problems posed by our increasingly interactive world.

Cost Accounting in Anglophone Subsidiaries - Empirical Evidence from Germany (Hardcover, New edition): Moritz Schroeder Cost Accounting in Anglophone Subsidiaries - Empirical Evidence from Germany (Hardcover, New edition)
Moritz Schroeder
R3,548 Discovery Miles 35 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cost accounting in Anglophone countries is in general less detailed than German cost accounting. Such cross-national differences imply a tension for Anglophone multinationals operating in Germany. These firms have to balance the group-wide application of their home-country traditions and the approval of diverging local cost accounting systems. By the means of a dyadic research design, this study finds empirical evidence for Anglophone cost accounting traditions to prevail in subsidiaries of Anglophone multinationals in Germany. However, the top management teams in these subsidiaries tend to work around such coercive pressures. The findings also suggest that the subsidiaries prefer to deviate from their parent companies' traditions to ensure the usefulness of information for their cost accounting systems.

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