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How multinational companies can use digital technology to compete in a world where business is driven by the forces of both globalization and deglobalization. Digital technology has put globalization on steroids; multinational companies now account for one-third of world GDP and one-fourth of world employment. And yet complicating this story of unchecked global capitalism are two contradictory forces. Even as advances in digital technology enable borderless markets, a new nationalism has emerged, reviving protectionism and railing against digital colonialism. In The Digital Multinational, management experts Satish Nambisan and Yadong Luo examine how companies can adopt a dual strategy to cop...
This fully revised and updated fourth edition of International Business offers an action- focused, practical approach to the topic, helping students understand the global business environment and its repercussions for executives. The book provides thorough coverage, delving into fundamental concepts and theory; the cultural, political, and economic environment; international business strategies; and even functional management areas. More comprehensive than competing books, this new edition of International Business includes: A new chapter on the digitalization of the global economy and its implications for firm strategy and organizations. New examinations of the forces of de- globalization, ...
"This book addresses a new philosophy or a major strategy that is emerging today in international business: simulaneous competition and cooperation between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their global rivals, foreign governments, alliance partners, and corporate members. ... Coopetition goes beyond conventional rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Coopetition involves cooperating to create a bigger business pie, while competing to divide it up. Cooperation reflects the elements of mutual accommodation and collaboration, seeking joint payoffs and goal accomplishment from the interdependent activities or resources. Competition reflect the elements of bargaining or control and related conflicts, seeking private gains for the[ir] own party."--Page 9 (Preface).
Now there’s an International Business text that truly goes beyond a US-centered perspective to take into consideration the business realities in other countries and their unique perspectives, highlighting the role of culture in international business and illustrating how its impacts as well as that of political, legal and social institutions permeates all business functions and processes. Oded Shenkar and Yadong Luo’s INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS offers a highly integrated and action-focused approach to the field that helps students make explicit connections across concepts and functions, develop the skill they need to address various IB issues and problems, and most importantly, broaden their understanding of the global business environment and its repercussions for executives.
The first book-length treatment of theories, practical lessons, and the full set of critical issues that affect international joint ventures. It addresses culture, human resources, learning, legal, management, and research and development, and presents a full set of decisions and detailed guidelines for IJV formation and management. It also thoroughly analyzes 30 case studies.
Ethical foundations : virtue, consequence, principle -- Responsibility and accountability -- Twenty-first century challenges : global dimensions/changing boundaries -- Understanding fraud, waste, and corrupt practices -- Graft, bribery, and conflict of interest -- Lying, cheating, and deception -- Privacy, secrecy, and confidentiality -- Abuse of authority and "administrative evil"--Establishing expectations, providing guidelines, and building trust -- Transparency, whistle blowing, and dissent -- Compliance, oversight, and sanctions -- Leadership and individual responsibility : encouraging ethics.
Considers the growing importance of cross-border alliances, in particular international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions. Featuring case-studies and other added value features, this is an essential text for students of HRM.
This book offers an outlook on relations in the 21st century between national governments and multinational companies.
This textbook introduces students to the important concepts of global marketing today, and their managerial implications. Designed to be shorter than many other textbooks, Global Marketing focuses on getting to the point faster. Increasingly, marketing activities must be integrated at a global level. Yet, the enduring influence of culture requires marketers to adapt local strategies in light of cultural differences. Global Marketing takes a similar strategic approach, recognizing the need to address both the forces of globalization and those of localization. Other key features include: Coverage of often overlooked topics, such as the competitive rise of China’s state-owned enterprises; the...
Now there s an International Business text that truly goes beyond a US-centered perspective to take into consideration the business realities in other countries and their unique perspectives, highlighting the role of culture in international business and illustrating how its impacts as well as that of political, legal and social institutions permeates all business functions and processes.Oded Shenkar and Yadong Luo s INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS offers a highly integrated and action-focused approach to the field that helps students make explicit connections across concepts and functions, develop the skill they need to address various IB issues and problems, and most importantly, broaden their unde...