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Transforming International Organizations »
Authors: William G. Egelhoff (Editor), Mark Casson
ISBN-13: 9781858987217, ISBN-10: 1858987210
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: William G. Egelhoff
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. I | The Contextual Environment Driving Organizational Transformation | |
| 1 | Changing Patterns of International Competition | 3 |
| 2 | Managing across Borders: New Strategic Requirements | 35 |
| 3 | Transnational Corporations: Where are they Coming From, Where are they Headed? | 46 |
| 4 | Competing in the New Economy: Managing Out of Bounds | 75 |
| Pt. II | Broad-Based Models of Organizational Transformation | |
| 5 | Managing across Borders: New Organizational Responses | 83 |
| 6 | Beyond the M-Form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm | 94 |
| 7 | Managing DMNCs: A Search for a New Paradigm | 118 |
| 8 | Assumptions of Hierarchy and Heterarchy, with Applications to the Management of the Multinational Corporation | 138 |
| 9 | Toward a Theory of the Self-Renewing MNC | 168 |
| 10 | Effectively Conceiving and Executing Multinationals' Worldwide Strategies | 194 |
| 11 | Institutionalization Theory and the Multinational Corporation | 224 |
| 12 | Information-Processing Theory and the Multinational Enterprise | 251 |
| Pt. III | Subsidiary-Level Perspectives of Organizational Transformation | |
| 13 | Knowledge Flows and the Structure of Control Within Multinational Corporations | 281 |
| 14 | Different Roles for Subsidiaries: The Case of Multinational Corporations in Spain | 306 |
| 15 | Entrepreneurship in Multinational Corporations: The Characteristics of Subsidiary Initiatives | 318 |
| 16 | How Multinational Subsidiary Mandates are Gained and Lost | 341 |
| 17 | The Return of the Country Manager | 370 |
| Pt. IV | Models and Studies Dealing with Specific Aspects of Organizational Transformation | |
| 18 | Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation | 383 |
| 19 | Globalization of an Ethnocentric Firm: An Evolutionary Perspective | 404 |
| 20 | Differentiated Fit and Shared Values: Alternatives for Managing Headquarters-Subsidiary Relations | 427 |
| 21 | Division Headquarters Go Abroad - A Step in the Internationalization of the Multinational Corporation | 439 |
| 22 | The Regional Solution: An Alternative to Globalization | 456 |
| 23 | Influences on Human Resource Management Practices in Multinational Corporations | 475 |
| 24 | Is there a Relationship Between a Geocentric Mind-Set and Multinational Strategy? | 498 |
| 25 | From "Starworks" to Networks and Heterarchies? Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Evidence of HRM Organization in Large Multinational Corporations | 517 |
| 26 | The Management of Multinational R&D: A Neglected Topic in International Business Research | 542 |
| 27 | R&D Networks and Innovation: Decentralised Product Development in Multinational Enterprises | 560 |
| 28 | Global Business Drivers: Aligning Information Technology to Global Business Strategy | 579 |
| Name Index | 599 |
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