From extending successful brands into exotic new markets to tapping talent in virtual teams to building ultra-complex supplier and distributor networks, today's executives and managers must consider the international implications of every decision they make. Certainly, globalization has its detractors, but for business leaders, the issue is not to debate the merits of globalization but to learn how to thrive in the global marketplace. In Borderless Business the authors tackle every major dimension of business?€”from marketing to human resource management to supply chains to accounting and finance?€”and demonstrate how they play out in a global context. Each chapter describes the new skills and competencies that managers must master in order to lead their companies in this environment. Featuring current data and dozens of case examples and applications from around the world, Borderless Business will serve as a practical handbook for executives and managers and an indispensable text for students of international business.From extending successful brands into exotic new markets to tapping talent in virtual teams to building ultra-complex supplier and distributor networks, today's executives and managers must consider the international implications of every decision they make. To put the magnitude of global business in context, consider that between 1820 and 1992 world population increased 5-fold, world income 40-fold, and world trade 540-fold. And in the past decade, the pace of change has only accelerated, with the Internet, for example, making connections instantaneous and ubiquitous?€”and global aspirations attainable for even the smallest of enterprises.Certainly, globalization has its detractors, but for today's business leaders, the issue is not to debate the merits of globalization but to learn how to thrive in the global marketplace. In Borderless Business the authors tackle every major dimension of globalization ?€”from marketing to human resource management to supply chains to accounting and finance?€”and demonstrate how these issues play out in a global context. Each chapter describes the new skills and competencies that managers must master in order to lead their companies in this environment, where every management challenge is amplified. Featuring current data and dozens of case examples and applications from around the world, Borderless Business will serve as a practical handbook for executives and managers and as an indispensable text for students of international business.
Author(s): Clarence J. Mann, Klaus GA¶tz
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 368
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Overview: Forces Shaping the Global Business Environment......Page 12
SECTION I. FOCUSING ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS......Page 42
1. Strategy in a Global Context......Page 44
2. Marketing across the World......Page 80
3. Managing Global Supply Networks......Page 97
4. Human Resources Development Strategy......Page 118
SECTION II. LEVERAGING THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 132
5. Trade and Government Relations......Page 134
6. The Fragmented Legal Environment of Global Business......Page 155
7. Managing Country Risk......Page 177
SECTION III. ADDING ENTERPRISE VALUE......Page 204
8. Managing Knowledge in the Extended Enterprise......Page 206
9. International Accounting, Taxation, and Corporate Governance......Page 225
10. Road Map To the Changing Financial Environment......Page 245
SECTION IV. MOBILIZING CREATIVITY AND COMMITMENT......Page 268
11. The Global Leader......Page 270
12. Cultivating Global Teams: Diversity Management Squared (DM[sup(2)])......Page 286
13. Toward the Transnationalization of Corporate Culture......Page 306
14. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility......Page 324
Conclusions: An Emerging Global Management Paradigm......Page 345
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 356
B......Page 360
C......Page 361
E......Page 362
F......Page 363
I......Page 364
L......Page 365
N......Page 366
R......Page 367
T......Page 368
X......Page 369
