Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm : Enterprise and Renewal

by Julian Birkinshaw

• ISBN13: 9780761958086
• ISBN10: 0761958088
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-06
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

'A major contribution of this exciting book is the perspective of the subsidiary manager operating network... In its extreme version this means that all managers are subsidiary managers'¦ challenging those who still view multinationals as hierarchies. With exceptional clarity of thought and writing, Julian Birkinshaw stakes out the ground as a major new thinker of the fields of international business and strategic management ' - Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of OxfordMuch current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the external environment in which firms operate. Julian Birkinshaw's book looks within international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and position. Are

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
List of Tables	ix
Foreword	x
Preface	xi
Introduction and Overview	1	(13)
Types of Subsidiary Initiative	14	(19)
Fighting the Corporate Immune System: How the Initiative Process Works	33	(18)
The Consequences of Initiative	51	(13)
Perspectives on the Theory of Entrepreneurship	64	(19)
Mapping the Process of Subsidiary Evolution	83	(15)
Perspectives on the Theory of the Multinational Corporation	98	(12)
An Internal Market Perspective on the Multinational Corporation	110	(14)
Implications for Management Practice	124	(12)
Appendix	136	(4)
References	140	(9)
Index	149