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 planning systems, financial management, information systems and R & D management.

Product Description: A unique and one-of-a-kind anthology! This casebook was first published as Davidson/de la Torre, Managing the Global Corporation, in 1989. It was the first modern case anthology for a graduate audience. This edition contains the broadest case collection of companies and countries available in a single anthology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Based on extensive research in major multinational corporations, this book analyses the types of strategic choices and organisational capabilities that underlie the success (or explain the failure) of multinationals in trading-off needs for national responsiveness (to market diversity and host government policies) and needs for international integration (into a centrally managed production system and logistic network of operations in various countries)...read more