Managing the Global Network Corporation

by McKern,Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780415297066
• ISBN10: 0415297060
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book considers the increasing importance of changing structures, organization and management, within multinational corporations. In these organizations there is a greater emphasis on autonomy of subsidiaries, lateral communication flow and the cross-border generation and transmission of knowledge. This book considers these issues under four key themes: innovation and knowledge transfer; integrative processes and socialization; adaptation of strategy and firm evolution; and network roles, competencies and organizational forms. Contributors include John Child, Roland Calori, Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Foreword	xii
Preface	xiv
Organizational innovation in multinational corporations	1	(20)
Bruce McKern
PART 1 Innovation and knowledge transfer in international networks	21	(80)
Impact of strategic context and inter-unit trust on knowledge flows within the multinational corporation	23	(17)
Anil K. Gupta
Manuel Becerra
Managing international innovation projects: why firms do not do the obvious	40	(20)
Gunnar Hedlund
Jonas Ridderstrale
The management of joint ventures within international business networks: US companies in China	60	(21)
John Child
Innovation goes global: a study of foreign-affiliated R&D laboratories in the USA	81	(20)
Richard Florida
PART 2 Strategy, integrative processes, and differentiation	101	(82)
International competition: how cognitive maps can help top management	103	(19)
Roland Calori
Managing diversity across modern markets	122	(13)
Jeffrey Williams
Implementing lateral centralization at the foreign subsidiary: the role of compensation and reward systems	135	(17)
Sharon Watson
Kendall Roth
Business process re-engineering in international network corporations	152	(31)
Gary Katzenstein
Javier Lerch
PART 3 Structural evolution, management roles, and competences	183	(101)
After foreign market entry, then what? Managing the post-entry phase of foreign direct investment	185	(16)
Philip M. Rosenzweig
Sea Jin Chang
Managing leading-edge multinational corporations	201	(19)
Charles C. Snow
Raymond E. Miles
Brent B. Allred
The role of the corporate center in diversified international corporations	220	(40)
Bruce McKern
John Naman
Managing in a transnational network: new management roles, new personal competencies	260	(24)
Christopher A. Bartlett
Sumantra Ghoshal
Index	284