Managing multinationals in a knowledge economy economics, culture, and human resources

This volume includes contributing chapters from authors based in Asia, Europe, and North America to examine an emerging topic in the international management field - managing multinationals in a knowledge economy. They were selected to reflect the influences of three key factors - economics, culture...

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Other Authors Cheng, Joseph L. C. 1952-, Hitt, Michael A.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
SeriesAdvances in international management ; v. 15.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502344
184950234X
0762310502
ISSN1571-5027 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xv, 239 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Joseph L.C. Cheng, Michael A. Hitt
  • An evolving paradigm of the economic determinants of international business activity / John H Dunning
  • The eclectic paradigm: the developmental years as a mirror on the evolution of the field of international business / Timothy M. Devinney
  • John Dunning's eclectic model and the beginnings of global strategy / Stephen Tallman
  • Searching for theories of dynamic relationships in business strategy: comment on John Dunning's "Relational assets, networks, and international business activity" paper / Will Mitchell
  • Understanding the dynamics of relational assets: comment on John Dunning's "Relational assets, networks, and international business activity" paper / Jose<U+00cc><U+0081> de la Torre
  • The role of culture in entry-mode studies: from neglect to myopia? / Anne-Wil Harzing
  • Top management teams in their national context / Rene<U+00cc><U+0081> Olie, Ad van Iterson
  • Cultural attributes of Russian management / Mikhail V. Grachev
  • Explaining the utilization of managerial expatriates from the perspectives of resource-based, agency, and transaction-costs theories / Danchi Tan, Joseph T. Mahoney
  • Out of touch? an evaluation of the correspondence between academic and practitioner concerns in IHRM / S. Arzu Wasti, Christopher Robert.