1st Edition

Strategies in Global Competition (RLE International Business) Selected Papers from the Prince Bertil Symposium at the Institute of International Business

Edited By Neil Hood, Jan-Erik Vahlne Copyright 1988
420 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

420 Pages
by Routledge

The main thrust of Part 1 is to give some understanding of the concept of ‘global competition’. In doing so, the chapters rely heavily on industrial studies. Part 2 deals with two different aspects of this change viewed from two different perspectives. The one is economic and more macro: the other political and social and more micro, being concerned with the way in which companies have to utilize... Read more

List of Figures, Tables, Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Concepts and Constructs of Strategy in Global Competition. Introduction. 1. Creating Global Strategic Capability G Hamel and C K Prahalad. 2. Making Sense of Complex Industries J McGee and H Thomas. Part 2: Global Environmental Change. Introduction. 3. International Business, the Recession and Economic Restructuring J H Dunning. 4. Strategic Integration in Fragmented Environments: Social and Political Assessment by Subsidiaries of Multinational Firms S J Kobrin. Part 3: Technology and Global Competition. Introduction. 5. International Patterns of Technological Accumulation K Pavitt. 6. Corporate Families to Handle Galloping Technology Chr.Karlsson. Part 4: Global Competition and Strategy – Industry and Country Studies. Introduction. 7. Is the Global Automobile Industry Really Global? O Solvell. 8. Technical Change and Vertical Disintegration in Global Competition: Lessons from Machine Tools J O Rendeiro. 9. Japan’s Industry Structure – Barriers to Global Competition A Kverneland. 10. Choice of market Channel in a Strategic Perspective J-E Vahlne and K Nordstrom. Part 5: Frameworks for Analysing Global Competition Introduction. 11. Internationalisation in Industrial Systems – A Network Approach J Johanson and L G Mattsson. 12. Country Patterns in International Competition: Appropriability and Oligopolistic Agreement B Kogut. Part 6: Strategic Management for Global Competition. Introduction. 13. Quality of Management: An Emerging Source of Global Competitive Advantage Y Doz and C K Prahalad. 14. Co-Operative Strategies: Planning and Control Considerations P Lorange. Concluding Perspectives: Neil Hood and Jan-Erik Vahlne. Index.

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