"The Logic of International Restructuring" argues that an international restructuring race is evolving and is likely to intensify over the coming years. The race is understod as a race between industrial complex rather than between individual firms. Industrial complexes are bargaining networks organized by large core firms consisting of suppliers, distributors/dealers, governments, financiers and trade unions. Ruigrok and van Tulder identify five distinct ways according to which a core firm may organize its relationship with its bargaining partners. Each of these ways is unique in the sense that they have their own bargaining logic. This implies that it is very difficult for a company to successfully adopt isolated parts of what appear to be "winning formulas" or "best-practices" at a given moment.
According to "The Logic of International Restructuring," this logic is extended abroad. When a company establishes international activities, it seeks to emulate its domestice restructuring pattern. Ruigok and van Tulder identify a series of rival internationalism strategies which follow from the logic of domestic restructuring. Theses rival internationalism strategies, in turn, each have different implications for the flows of international trade. While some strategies depend heavily on global free trade regime, others actually advance the formation of regional trade blockings.
The Logic of International Restructuring addresses many current debates on post-Fordism, globalisation and lean production. They present an abundance of new and historical data on the world's one hundred largest companies. These data show that not one of the largest core firms is truly "global" or"borderless" and that virtually all of them in their history have benefitted decisively from governmental trade or industrial policies.

"The Logic of International Restructuring" argues that an international restructuring race is evolving and is likely to intensify over the coming years. The race is understod as a race between industrial complex rather than between individual firms. Industrial complexes are bargaining networks organized by large core firms consisting of suppliers, distributors/dealers, governments, financiers and trade unions. Ruigrok and van Tulder identify five distinct ways according to which a core firm may organize its relationship with its bargaining partners. Each of these ways is unique in the sense that they have their own bargaining logic. This implies that it is very difficult for a company to successfully adopt isolated parts of what appear to be "winning formulas" or "best-practices" at a given moment.
According to "The Logic of International Restructuring," this logic is extended abroad. When a company establishes international activities, it seeks to emulate its domestice restructuring pattern. Ruigok and van Tulder identify a series of rival internationalism strategies which follow from the logic of domestic restructuring. Theses rival internationalism strategies, in turn, each have different implications for the flows of international trade. While some strategies depend heavily on global free trade regime, others actually advance the formation of regional trade blockings.
The Logic of International Restructuring addresses many current debates on post-Fordism, globalisation and lean production. They present an abundance of new and historical data on the world's one hundred largest companies. These data show that not one of the largest core firms is truly "global" or"borderless" and that virtually all of them in their history have benefitted decisively from governmental trade or industrial policies.

This book presents novel theoretical ideas and empirical findings where the fields of strategizing and organizing meet. At this boundary lie many of the most crucial theoretical and practical issues for management and managing.

Innovative Forms of Organizing, the eagerly awaited sequel to The Innovating Organization (SAGE, 2000), draws upon the comprehensive data sets of the INFORM programme of research, to examine the development of innovative forms of organizing and company performance in organizations across Europe, Japan and the United States.

Innovative Forms of Organizing establishes and develops three strong themes: organizing and strategizing; complementarities, change and performance; and the management of dualities in the modern corporation. The book then discusses the implications of its presented ideas for strategizing//organizing in the 21st century firm and the challenges for management researchers of conducting large scale, international comparative research. Innovative Forms of Organizing thereby illustrates 21st Century management research in 21st Century organizations across Europe, Japan and the USA.

This seminal international study will be a classic in the field for years to come for scholars and policy makers in academia, business and government who are interested in strategy, organization and international management.