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Presenting a major retrospective and prospective overview of strategy, this Handbook is an important benchmark volume for management scholars worldwide. The Handbook frames, assesses and synthesizes the work in the field. Chapters are grouped under four specific areas of strategy and management: Mapping a Terrain; Thinking and Acting Strategically; Changing Contexts; and Looking Forward. Within these parts, leading international scholars provide historical overviews of the key themes, address the central approaches which have characterized these themes, critically assess the quality of current theory and knowledge, and set out agendas for future theoretical and empirical development.
International Management and Strategy
International Management and Strategy
The field of international strategy concerns the study of international activities of firms and their interactions with foreign governments, competitors, and employees. It seeks to address not only the question of why do firms go overseas, but also how they do it. The globalization of markets, and rapid changes in economic and political systems, has forced a re-thinking of the meaning of location, of competitive advantage, and of the transmission of knowledge among countries. Because of the dominance of the multinational corporation in trade and in world production, international business focuses on the manager's challenge to coordinate and organize people - despite large variations in their national origins and culture - within the boundaries of a single firm ...
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