Managing the global firm

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List of contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Changing Agenda for Researchers and Practitioners. Christopher A Bartlett, Yves Doz, Gunnar Hedlund. Part 1: Conceptions of Global Management. 1. Action in Heterarchies: New Approaches to Managing the MNC Gunnar Hedlund and Dag Rolander. 2. International Sequential Advantages and Network Flexibility Bruce Kogut. 3. Managing Globalization As A Self-Renewing Process: Experiences of Japanese MNCs Ikujiro Nonaka. 4. Organizing for World-Wide Advantage Roderick E White and Thomas A Poynter. Part 2: Management of Multinational Processes and Systems 5. Control, Change and Flexibility: The Dilemma of Transnational Collaboration Yves Doz, C K Prahalad and Gary Hamel. 6. Effective Strategic Planning Processes in the Multinational Corporation Peter Lorange and Gilbert Probst. 7. New Information Systems and the Changing Structure of MNCs Peter Hagstrom 8. Rediscovering Functions in the MNC: The Role of Expertise in Firms' Responses to Shifting Exchange Rates Donald R Lessard and Nitin Nohria. Part 3: Innovation and R&D in the MNC 9. Managing Innovation in the Transnational Corporation Christopher A Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal 10. International Decentralization of R&D - the Organizational Challenges Lars Hakanson 11. Internal and External Linkages in the MNC: The Case of R&D Subsidaries in Japan D Eleanor Westney. Part 4: The Concepts in Use 12. Research on Managing the Multinational Company: A Practioner's Experiences E Ralph Biggadike. 13. Building A Dynamic Intelligent Network: Lessons from the Telecommunications Revolution for the MNC Organization of the Future Hakan Ledin. Index.

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