Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores international management with a focus on the foreign subsidiary. The foreign subsidiary is an important entity within a multinational corporation (MNC). Much of the future revenue and profit growth of the MNC will be from its foreign operations. Together with other foreign subsidiaries, the foreign subsidiary represents the future growth and survival of an MNC. This book investigates the theme that the future holds the MNC and the foreign subsidiary true to their purpose of enlarging the scope of business around the world and transferring from across countries: people, values, ideas and views and perspectives, knowledge, arts and know-how and skills, life styles and standards of living, goods and services, equipment, finance, and (engineering and organizational) technologies.
Table of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Foreword – Introduction – MNC’s Strategy Paths: Conceptual Analysis for Its Foreign Subsidiary Units – Strategic Management for MNC Firms: A Conceptual Discussion – Foreign Subsidiary Unit Strategic Decision-Making Process – MNC HQ-Foreign Subsidiary Unit Relationships: Strategies for Improving Entrepreneurship and Innovation – A Nurturing Headquarters Is Good for the Multinational Corporation – Formulating an International Growth Strategy: Considerations for MNC Decision-Making Process – Strategic and Operational Scope of Foreign Subsidiary Units – Global Organizational Innovation Strategy – Managing Foreign Subsidiary Competitiveness – Entrepreneurial Challenges in Reformulating Firm’s Corporate Strategy: A Framework for Analysis – Organizational Innovation for MNC and Foreign Subsidiaries – The Making of the United States Foreign Subsidiary CEO – Training Expatriates for Emerging (Developing) Market Countries – Training for the Overseas United States Managers – Strategic International Human Resource Management: The Key to International Competitiveness – Corporate Social Responsibility: Theoretical Discussions – Framework for Social Responsibility Strategies for Foreign Subsidiaries Operating in Diverse Cultural Environments – The MNC’s Global Ethics and Social Responsibility: A Strategic Diversity Management Imperative – Ethical Issues Analyses in International Management: A Framework for Analyses – Ethical Conduct Protection Board for the Global Organization: Issues in Strategic Management for Global Organization – Conclusions.
