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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812195703321

Titolo

Managing the global firm / / edited by Christopher A. Bartlett, Yves Doz and Gunnar Hedlund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-13491-X

1-283-97320-0

0-203-07794-6

1-135-13492-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge library editions. International business ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

658.049

Soggetti

International business enterprises - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Conceptions of global management -- pt. II. Management of multinational processes and systems -- pt. III. Innovation and R&D in the MNC -- pt. IV. The concepts in use.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume assesses the situation for multinationals at the beginning of the 1990s, bringing together contributions from academics recognized as world leaders in the field and from practitioners with wide experience in international management. Drawing on perspectives from Europe, the USA and Japan, the contributors outline the shape of the global firm of the future. They focus squarely on the development of the corporation as a whole, rather than on the narrow management of individual foreign subsidiaries, and they also explore the specific implications for areas such as strategic plannin