Local Players in Global Games : the Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation.
What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole, or do m...
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Oxford Scholarship Online
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Preface: Small Worlds of Globalization; 1. Introduction: Multinational Corporations as Lead Agents of Globalization?; Part I. Local Pathways to Multinational Enterprise; 2. Associating Local Strategies of Global Reach: Horsens, Lake Mills, Eastbourne, and APV; Part II: A Global Game Enacted by Local Players; 3. Horsens: Local Strategies on a Global Stage; 4. Lake Mills: Self-limiting Strategies of a Solidaristic Plant Community; 5. Howard: A Sleeping Beauty Awakes to the Nightmare of a Global Enterprise; 6. Lygon Place: A Corporate Headquarters at War with Itself
- 7. Strategic Positions and Positional StrategiesPart III: Managerial Challenges and Human Promises of Globalization; 8. Managing the Multinational: Administrative and Human Challenges; 9. The Functions of the Executive Revisited: Contributions, Inducements, and Constitutional Ordering; 10. Pragmatic Solutions: From Procedural Justice to Learning by Monitoring; 11. Creating a Multinational Public for the Corporation; 12. Conclusion: Sideshadowing the Future of Globalization; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z