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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Gabler
Buchreihe	:	mir-Edition
Sprache	:	Deutsch
Erschienen	:	28. 08. 1996
Seiten	:	423
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	240 mm
Breite	:	170 mm
Gewicht	:	824 g
ISBN	:	9783409120852

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Autorinformation

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Dr. Roland Böttcher was senior lecturer at the Chair of Business Administration, Universität Dortmund. He is now working in the field of Management Consulting.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Introduction.- 2. Philosophical Underpinnings.- 3. The Globalization Phenomenon.- 3.1 The Pre-Global School of International Management.- 3.2 External Factors Reinforcing Globalization.- 3.3 The Global School of International Management.- 3.4 Reconsidering Geo-Centrism: A Plea for Global Orientation.- 4. Global Decision-Making.- 4.1 Decision-Making in Complex Firms.- 4.2 The External Environment of MNCs.- 4.3 The Nature of Global Decision-Making.- 5. Organizational Implications of Globalization.- 5.1 Organizational Design in International Management.- 5.2 Organizational Research in the Tradition of the ‘Structure Follows Strategy’ Paradigm.- 5.3 The Global Network Debate.- 5.4 General Characteristics of Global Networks.- 6. Network Research.- 6.1 Structural Network Analysis.- 6.2 Social Network Analysis.- 6.3 Interorganizational Network Research.- 7. Developing a MNC-Network Perspective.- 7.1 The MNC between Social and Interorganizational Networks.- 7.2 The MNC-Network Framework.- 7.2.1 MNC-Network Nodes.- 7.2.2 MNC-Network Relations.- 7.2.3 Studying the Operating Core of MNCs from a Network Perspective: The Vertical and Horizontal Network Level.- 8. The Coordination and Decision Framework.- 8.1 Network Management of Change: Planned Evolution.- 8.2 Context Management.- 8.3 The C&D Framework.- 9. Research Methodology.- 10. The Management of Coordination and Decision Processes in Global Firms.- 10.1 Structural Context Management of C&D Interactions.- 10.2 Managerial Context Management of C&D Interactions.- 11. Conclusions and Implications for Future Research.- 11.1 Summary of the Research Findings.- 11.2 Conclusions.- 11.3 Directions for Future Research.- Appendix A: Selected Organization Theories.- Appendix B: Sample Selection.- Appendix C: Research Instrument.-Appendix D: Descriptive Statistics.

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