Bücher der Reihe Advances in International Management

Includes contributing chapters from authors based in Asia, Europe, and North America to examine how Japanese firms have responded to the challenge of a slower domestic economy and a more competitive international economy. This work contains articles to address three aspects of this issue.

The role that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in the economic development and growth of cities, regions and nations has been an increasing subject of debate and study for the last half century. This volume focuses on the opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs and SMEs face in a world of global competition.

Recent developments are challenging the traditional separation between advanced and emerging economies as host of knowledge and production-intensive activities, respectively. Authors assess whether the co-location of R&D and manufacturing is critical for development and innovation.

Multinational Corporations are meeting new challenges by focusing on core activities, value chain disaggregation, relocation of activities to emerging markets, industry consolidation, technological change, and market volatility. In this volume we scrutinize different models to examine how MNCs can cope and orchestrate a global network organization.

A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodological toolkit.

Part of "Advances in International Management" series, this title presents contemporary research by leading and emerging scholars working on institutional theory. It also presents theoretical frameworks of institutions and proposes interesting ideas that provide the foundation for doctoral dissertations and research projects.

This volume explores major issues and concepts in the field of international business and management and asks the question 'What is it that we know?' It examines key topics such as multinational enterprise and strategic management theory, post-merger integration, internalizing firms and the strategy-performance relationship.

Cross-border flows of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and ideas have substantially increased. This book focuses on how the interface between firm-specific advantages, liability of foreignness, and location-specific advantages are spelled out in the more global world.

Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to researching subsidiary dynamics and its effective management, with a focus on the role of the headquarters within the context of subsidiaries as members of a differentiated, interdependent network, and the development of subsidiary capabilities and their impact on firm performance.

A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodological toolkit.

The competitive forces generated by globalization act to promote the cross-national diffusion of human resource management 'best practices'. This book contains papers from authors in Europe, Asia, Africa, and US who explore diffusion in a variety of national contexts.

Examines the topic of managing multinationals in a knowledge economy. This book concludes that, despite all the technological advances in cross-border communication and coordination, social capital and human resources are the most critical factors possessed by multinationals.

Volume 28 of the Advances in International Management focuses on the opportunities and challenges for multinational enterprises that consider emerging economies and their destinations. It provides a forum for thought-provoking idea and empirical research, and is ideal for researchers and doctoral students whose work touches emerging markets.

A global mindset is 'a set of individual attributes that enable an individual to influence individuals, groups, and organizations from diverse socio/cultural/institutional systems'. This book intends to explore the content of a global mindset, how it is developed, when and how it should be applied, and what its consequences are.

Provides understanding of global phenomenon marketplaces where individuals living in poverty buy/sell products and services. This volume presents a collection of articles that describe the particular group of consumers and entrepreneurs, and inform us on better ways to understand, reach, and empower them.

Provides four articles covering an interesting set of topics in international management studies with a comparative focus. This work presents a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches. It includes topics such as: organizational control in joint ventures; institutional and cultural effects on subsidiary operations; among others.

Presents research from a group of scholars who have been active in studying multinational teams in a global context. This book focuses on culture and other intra-group factors that affect the effective functioning of multinational teams. It also examines the effect of technology and other external influences on team processes and outcomes.

Introduces the AICM Distinguished Scholar Award and Research Forum which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the cross-national or cross-cultural study of organizations and management. This work includes articles that cover a range of management topics with an international focus.

Summarizes the thinking in the field of comparative management. This book is suitable for both scholars and advanced students.

Discusses a variety of topics in the field of advances in international competitive management. This book examines both studies in the Asian context and studies in the cross-national context.

Summarizes the thinking in the field of comparative management. This title intends to make an academic contribution through focused essays, presenting material in a fashion suitable for both scholars and advanced students.

Advances in International Management (AIM) is a research annual devoted to advancing the cross-border study of organizations and management practices from a global, regional, or comparative perspective, with emphasis on interdisciplinary inquiry that integrates ideas from multiple academic disciplines.

Examining the transnational firm, its present and its future, this collection covers a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and represents the thinking in the field on managing transnational firms focused on resources, market entry and alliances.