Synopses & Reviews
A team of international scholars and practitioners offer a variety of ideas that contribute to a new vision of the global firm in a contemporary competitive environment. Provides in-depth coverage of the most promising concepts and methods of managing and developing people in global organizations and demonstrates how human resource programs in global companies respond to ever-increasing change in world technology, economics, politics and culture.
Table of Contents
Partial table of contents:
THE COMPETITIVE CONTEXT.
Global Entanglements: The Structure of Corporate Transnationalism (C. Fombrun & S. Wally).
THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT.
Matrix Management: Not a Structure, a Frame of Mind (C. Bartlett & S. Ghoshal).
THE CULTURAL CONTEXT.
Cultural Dimensions in People Management: The Socialization Perspective (G. Hofstede).
THE DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT.
Global Development (N. Tichy).
THE COLLABORATIVE CONTEXT.
Human Resource Management in Multinational Cooperative Ventures (P. Lorange).
THE COMPARATIVE CONTEXT.
Expatriate Reduction and Strategic Control in American Multinational Corporations (S. Kobrin).
GLOBAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING IN THE 1990s.
Globalization: The Intellectual and Managerial Challenges (C. Prahalad).
Index.