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Book SynopsisLarge western companies are accelerating their expansion into emerging economies, while relying on oversimplified frameworks to make decisions and complex matrix organizations to make things happen. When critical events do happen (such as terrorist attacks or civil wars), senior executives and the companies they lead are often taken by surprise. As the world shifts to a less stable geopolitical structure, only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will prevail over the long term. Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalization in this evolving geopolitical landscape. This book underlines the need to go beyond a simplistic understanding of different countries and territories: it discusses the geopolitical issues that can be the cause of success or failure in different markets; and it explores strategies for dealing with global and local complexity, as well as introducing innovative ideas on recruitment and organization.
Trade ReviewNoting that political and social conditions in a country may well determine whether investments there return a profit, Rosenberg offers executives and board members of international companies a geopolitical perspective on the world as it is today as a tool kit to think through issues that affect their businesses in that part of the world where they operate. His purpose is not to replace deep analysis and the work of specialized consultants, but to give decision makers sufficient grounding in the field to ask better questions and decide for themselves what to do when faced with contradictory evidence. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Taken by Surprise Chapter 2. Why Many Businesses Have a Hard Time Internalizing Global Complexity Chapter 3. A Managerial Framework for Making Sense of a Complex World Chapter 4. Europe Stumbles Along Chapter 5. North and South America: Locked in an Awkward Embrace Chapter 6. China’s Re-Emergence as a Global Power Chapter 7. Japan, Korea, and South East Asia: The Search for an Identity between two Giants Chapter 8. India at the Crossroads Chapter 9. Africa Rising: Will It Be the Next China? Chapter 10. The Middle East on the Brink of War and Peace Chapter 11. How to Develop a Resilient Business Strategy and Organization for a Complex World?
