CONTENTS
List of contributors = ⅶ
Preface = ⅸ
Acknowledgements = ⅹ
Introduction : The changing agenda for researchers and practitioners / Christopher A. Bartlett. Yvos Doz ; Gunnar Hedlund = 1
Part Ⅰ Conceptions of global amanagement
1 Action in heterarchies : new approaches to managing the MNC / Gunnar Hedlund ; Dag Rolander = 15
2 International sequential advantages and network flexibility / Bruce Kogut = 47
3 Managing globalization as a self-renewing process : Experiences of Japanese MNCs / Ikujiro Nonaka = 69
4 Organizing for world - wide advantage / Roderick E. White ; Thomas Poynter = 95
Part Ⅱ Management of multinational processes and systems
5 Control, change, and flexibility : the dilemma of transnational collaboration / Yves Doz, C. K. Prahalad ; Gary Hamel = 117
6 Effective strategic planning processes in the multinational corporation / Peter Lorgange ; Gilber Probst = 144
7 New information systems and the changing structure of MNCs / Peter Hagstr = 164
8 Rediscovering functions in the MNC : the role of expertise in firms' responses to shifting excahange rates / Donald R. Lessard ; Nitin Nohria = 186
Part Ⅲ Innovation and R&D in the MNC
9 Managing innovation in the transnational corporation / Christopher A. Bartlett ; Sumantra Ghoshal = 215
10 International decentralization of R&D - the organizational challenges / Lars H kanson = 256
11 Internal and external linkages in the MNC : the case of R&D subsidiaries in Japan / D. Eleanor Westney = 279
Part Ⅳ The concepts in use
12 Research on managing the multinational company : a practitioner's experiences / E. Ralph Biggadike = 303
13 Building a dynamicintelligent network : lessons from the telecommunications revolution for the MNC organizatione of the future / H kan Ledin = 326
Index = 354
