Transforming International Organizations

by William G. Egelhoff, Mark Casson

Overview

International strategies and the organizational designs of multinational corporations are in a period of transition; the dominant designs of the recent past are gone and new dominant designs have not yet emerged. This authoritative collection of articles by leading international scholars presents the dominant ways of examining and understanding these current changes. It investigates contrasting points of view and provides the reader with a framework for evaluating the transformation of international corporations and for developing a critical insight which will be as useful for understanding future changes as it is for understanding those that have already occurred.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781858987217
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/1998
Series:	Globalization of the World Economy Series , #1
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Edited by the late William G. Egelhoff, formerly Associate Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University, US

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction (W.G. Egelhoff) Part I: The Contextual Environment Driving Organizational Transformation Part II: Broad-Based Models of Organizational Transformation Part III: Subsidiary-Level Perspectives of Organizational Transformation Part IV: Models and Studies Dealing with Specific Aspects of Organizational Transformation Name Index

Editorial Reviews

Twenty-eight recent articles and excerpts present differing views on organizational transformation, providing a framework for understanding and evaluating transformation of international organizations. Four sections examine the contextual environment that is driving the transformation of international organizations; a number of broad frameworks for describing and evaluating transformation; subsidiary- level perspectives; and models and studies dealing with specific aspects such as globalization of an ethnocentric firm, alternatives for managing headquarters, and the management of multinational R&D. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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