Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction

SECTION I: COMPETITION AND CORE COMPETENCE

1 Technological Complexity and the New Architecture of Competition

Patricia M. Norman

Richard A. Bettis

2 Developing Global Strategies for Service Businesses

Christopher H. Lovelock

George S. Yip

3 Global Competences in Service Multinationals

Susan Segal-Horn

John McGee

4 Competence-Based Strategies when Facing Innovation: But what Is Competence?

Thomas Durand

Silvia Guerra-Vieira

5 The Underemphasized Role of Diversifying Entrants and Industry Incumbents as the Sources of Major Innovations

David Methe

Anand Swaminathan

Will Mitchell

Ryoko Toyama

SECTION II: JOINT VENTURES AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

6 The Strategic Transformation of the Worldwide Pharmaceutical Industry: Schumpeterian Shocks and Core Skills

Charles I. Stubbart

Mark F. Terry

7 Competing to Cooperate: Antecedents of "Follow-the-Leader" Behavior in US Joint Ventures in Latin America

Javier Gimeno

Robert E. Hoskisson

8 Alliance Strategies of US Firms in Mexico: A Managerial Model of Resources and Transactional Concerns for Alliance Success

Stephen Tallman

Karin Fladmoe-Lindquist

James Robins

9 The Competitiveness of Mexico's Auto Industry in the New Global Environment: The Case of Ford

P. Roberto Garcia

10 The Benchmark Ford-Mazda Assembly Plant in Hermosillo, Mexico

Geoffrey

J. Bannister

Helen J. Muller

Robert R. Rehder

11 How Some Mexican Firms are Adapting to NAFTA: An Exploratory Study of Three Cases

Jesus A. Ponce de Leon

SECTION III: CORPORATE PERFORMANCE

12 Corporate Restructuring: The Result of Good or Bad Governance?

Sayan Chatterjee

Rita D. Kosnik

13 Who Wins in Governance Reform? Conventional Wisdom 1, Shareholders 0

Brian K. Boyd

David Norburn

Mark Fox

14 The Strategic and Environmental Correlates of Performance: Evidence from the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers, 1972-1991

Suresh Kotha

Filip Caeldries

Dan Schendel

15 Measuring the Distribution of Returns among Stakeholders: Method and Application to US and Japanese Auto Companies

Marvin B. Lieberman

Aya Chacar

16 The Transformation of Fiat Auto Poland

Knut Haanes

Harald Hvidsten

Peter Lorange

Index