Advances in International Comparative Management

Book details for Advances in International Comparative Management

Series: Advances in International Management v. 9

Contributor(s): S.Benjamin Prasad (editor),

Format: Hardback, 234 x 156 x 19mm , 292 pp

Publication date: 01 Aug 1994

Imprint: JAI Press Inc.

ISBN: 9781559387231

Price: £61.95

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Synopsis

This series summarizes current thinking in the field of comparative management. The series is intended to make an academic contribution through focused essays, presenting material in a fashion suitable for both scholars and advanced students.

Contents

Part 1: the characteristics and performance of Japanese-North American joint ventures in North America, Andrew Inkpen; approaching heterachy - a review of the literature on multinational strategy and structure, Julian M. Birkinshaw. Part 2 Expatriates and entrepreneurs: the boundary spanning role of expatriates in the multinational corporation, David C. Thomas; US expatriates and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 - dissolving boundaries, Sully Taylor and Robert W. Eder; corporate entrepreneurship - United States firms operating in the Middle East and the Arab World, Carol Carlson Dean and Mary Shephered Thibodeaux; organizational changes in planned economies in transition - an eclectic model, Mike W. Peng; learning from the Asian NICS - policy options for Central and East European republics, Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu.