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This volume provides a more detailed and profound understanding of
an important and, until recently ignored, global phenomenon ???
marketplaces where individuals living in poverty buy/sell products
and services. It is estimated that as many as 4 billion people with
buying power exceeding $14 trillion fall into this market segment.
Historically, the research in this area was conducted among
consumers from industrialized economies. This research is rooted in
fundamental assumptions about literacy and numeracy skills, life
stability, cognitive predilections, and consumer access to basic
resources such as education, water, and sanitation that often do
not hold for poverty-stricken marketplaces.
This new volume publishes four selected articles covering an
interesting set of topics in international management studies with
a comparative focus, including: organizational control in joint
ventures; institutional and cultural effects on subsidiary
operations; corporate governance practices; and employee's choice
of dissatisfaction behavior display. These articles along with the five Research Forum papers, present a rich diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches. They also represent the state-of-the-art and some of the best thinking in the field.
The decade long period of slow growth in Japan has raised
provocative questions relating to theory development in
international management. Japan??'s "lost decade" has led to
changes in both overall strategy and to increased variety in
individual firm responses to slower growth. The combination of
internal changes in the Japanese domestic business environment and
external changes in the international environment has generated
strong incentives for Japanese firms to seek new ways to structure
and compete. These adjustments have necessitated changes not only
in the management of Japanese firms domestically, but in overseas
markets as well. This volume includes contributing chapters from authors based in Asia, Europe, and North America to examine how Japanese firms have responded to the challenge of a slower domestic economy and a more competitive international economy. Articles were selected to address three aspects of this issue: adaptation to domestic environmental changes, adjustments in inter-organizational relations, and the experience in foreign MNCs in Japan and Japanese MNCs abroad.
This volume includes contributing chapters from authors based in
Asia, Europe, and North America to examine an emerging topic in the
international management field - managing multinationals in a
knowledge economy. They were selected to reflect the influences of
three key factors - economics, culture, and human resources - on
managerial decisions that affect multinationals and their effective
operations. Leading the volume is an invited article by John H.
Dunning, "An Evolving Paradigm of the Economic Determinants of
International Business Activity." It presents a comprehensive
review of his thirty-plus years of research on the eclectic
paradigm, and a preview of his most recent work on the role of
relational and institutional assets in foreign direct investment.
This article, along with commentaries on Dunning's work written by
Jose de la Torre, Timothy Devinney, Will Mitchell, and Stephen
Tallman, can be found in the Research Forum section.
A major development in recent research on the multinational enterprise (MNE) is the increased attention given to the interdependent, differentiated roles of the subsidiaries and their implications for MNE and subsidiary management. Paralleling this development is the shift away from studying subsidiaries as subunits to be controlled by the headquarters to investigating what subsidiaries do and how their activities can help develop firm-specific advantages. This volume includes contributions from leading scholars in the field from North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Different from the traditional, single-discipline based investigation, it presents a multi-disciplinary approach to researching subsidiary dynamics and its effective management, with a focus on three important issues: the role of the headquarters within the context of subsidiaries as members of a differentiated, interdependent network; the development of subsidiary capabilities and their impact on firm performance; and, subsidiaries as learning agents for the MNE, particularly in emerging markets such as China.
The early research on multinational enterprises usually relied on
traditional economic theory or relatively simple but powerful
theories developed in the field of international business. They
were developed to help us understand why firms entered
international markets. The book is divided into three parts, with the first focused on the new and visible theory of the metanational firm by Yves Doz and comments on this work and Yves Doz??'s broader contributions to the field by three top scholars in the international management field. The second part contains two works that examine the evolving nature of theory on the multinational firm in international management research. The third part contains five papers that present diverse yet highlyimportant theoretical perspectives on the multinational enterprise. This work provides a base upon which future excellent research in the field of international management will be advanced.
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-, 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.
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.
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