International management: a review of strategies and operations
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cheltenham
Thornes
1992
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Stanley Thornes management studies books
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| Umfang: | XV, 317 S. |
| ISBN: | 0748713700 |
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| adam_text | List of figures vii
List of tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface to this new edition xiii
How to use this book xiv
A service to our readers xvi
PART ONE THEORY AND STRATEGY
1 International management 3
1.1 The nature and scope of international management 4
1.2 Aims and objectives 8
1.3 A career in international management 10
1.4 Outline 12
1.5 Conclusion 15
2 Trade and investment 21
2.1 Trade 22
2.2 Investment 26
2.3 Organisation 28
2.4 Conclusion 31
2.5 Exercises, questions and further reading 31
3 Corporate strategy 34
3.1 From explorers to competitors 36
3.2 Expansion strategies 40
3.3 Strategies for servicing foreign markets 42
3.4 Analysing the strategies 46
3.5 The transfer of know-how: managerial and technical 47
3.6 Conclusion 50
3.7 Exercises, questions and further reading 51
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iv International Management
PART TWO MANAGEMENT
4 Trade in goods and services 55
4.1 Pre-export 56
4.2 Market selection 58
4.3 Significant obstacles 59
4.4 The options 60
4.5 The foreign agent or distributor 62
4.6 Organisation and staffing 65
4.7 Documentation 67
4.8 Conclusion 70
4.9 Exercises, questions and further reading 72
5 Trade in knowledge and expertise 75
5.1 Selling knowledge abroad 77
5.2 Licensing agreements 81
5.3 Franchising agreements 85
5.4 Management contracts 88
5.5 Other contractual arrangements 91
5.6 The selection and control of contract partners 93
5.7 Organisation 94
5.8 Conclusion 95
5.9 Exercises, questions and further reading 96
6 Foreign investment 100
6.1 First steps 101
6.2 Motives for direct investment 103
6.3 Foreign subsidiaries for manufacture and services 106
6.4 Ownership and the joint venture 107
6.5 The parent company and the subsidiary 111
6.6 A note on disinvestment 114
6.7 Portfolio investment 116
6.8 Conclusion 117
6.9 Exercises, questions and further reading 118
7 International marketing management 124
7.1 Market research 125
7.2 Product policies 126
7.3 Customer identification and product image 127
7.4 Pricing policies 128
7.5 Promotion and sales 130
7.6 Other elements in the marketing mix 132
7.7 Countertrade 132
Contents v
7.8 External affairs 133
7.9 Exercises, questions and further reading 134
8 International financial management 137
8.1 Sources and uses of funds 138
8.2 Project appraisal 142
8.3 Understanding foreign monetary systems 142
8.4 Accounting 143
8.5 Control 144
8.6 Taxation 145
8.7 Insurance 149
8.8 Legal and administrative 150
8L$ Summary 150
8.10 Exercises, questions and further reading 151
9 Personnel and industrial relations 153
9.1 Staffing policies 153
9.2 Industrial relations 159
9.3 Other personnel policies 160
9.4 Exercises, questions and further reading 162
10 Logistics, purchasing, distribution, production and research 166
10.1 Purchasing 169
10.2 Distribution 170
10.3 Production 170
10.4 Research and development 174
10.5 Exercises, questions and further reading 176
11 Decision-making and organisation 178
11.1 Organisation structure: the route of decision-making 179
11.2 Centralisation and decentralisation: the process of
decision-making 191
11.3 Exercises, questions and further reading 194
12 International corporate planning 199
12.1 A philosophy for international planning 200
12.2 The role of international planning 203
12.3 The purposes of international planning 206
12.4 Collecting and processing information 207
12.5 The organisation of a planning department 209
12.6 Conclusion 210
12.7 Questions and further reading 211
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PART THREE THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE FUTURE
13 The economic environment 215
13.1 Trade flows 215
13.2 Commodity trading 217
13.3 Investment flows 219
13.4 Trade and investment: East and West 220
13.5 Trade and investment: North and South 222
13.6 Capital markets and financial instruments 224
13.7 Other landmarks in the economic environment 226
13.8 Exercises and questions 229
14 National differences 231
14.1 The elusive differences 231
14.2 Questions and further reading 239
15 The company and the nation state 243
15.1 The types of country 245
15.2 Authority and the nation state 250
15.3 Some major issues 253
15.4 A basis for negotiation 261
15.5 Exercises, questions and further reading 262
16 International organisations 265
16.1 World organisations: the United Nations and its derivatives 265
16.2 Regional organisations 266
16.3 Other treaty organisations 275
16.4 International financing 276
16.5 The international regulation of trade 277
16.6 Codes of conduct 279
16.7 Questions and further reading 281
17 International management: the future 283
17.1 The new international economic order 284
17.2 Some transitions in the business environment 286
17.3 Corporate strategies 290
17.4 Patterns of organisation and management 292
17.5 Peace and war 294
17.6 Conclusion and summary 295
17.7 Exercises, questions and further reading 297
Notes 299
Bibliography 314
Index 317
LIST OF FIGURES
1.1 International management approaches to the subject 5
1.2 International management: the scheme of the book 13
1.3 The study of international management
A. The disciplines 16
B. The environmental influences 17
C. The management process 18
D. Characteristics 19
E. Pressures to change 20
2.1 The conflict theory of the international firm 30
3.1 The motives for operating internationally 37
3.2 Industrial production: international comparisons (base: 1967 = 100) 39
3.3 The international business options 44
3.4 The decision-making process 45
3.5 Typology of basic states for a product 47
3.6 A matrix scheme for identifying opportunities and dangers in strategy
formulation 48
3.7 The keyboard analogy - international strategies 51
4.1 The export process 57
4.2 The export options 60
4.3 The export department 68
4.4 The keyboard analogy - export 71
5.1 Knowledge agreements 76
5.2 Scheme for determining whether to expand abroad by
knowledge agreement 78
5.3 The basic management contract 88
5.4 The keyboard analogy - know-how agreements 95
6.1 The emergence of foreign investment 102
6.2 The offshore production process 113
6.3 Disinvestment 115
6.4 The keyboard analogy-investment 118
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10.1 Head-office centred logistics 167
10.2 Market centred logistics 168
10.3 Costing of logistic arrangements (from purchase to sale) 168
10.4 Options for research and development departments 175
11.1 The emergence of an international organisation: two options 180
11.2 The beginnings of international investment 181
11.3 Multiproduct, multinational companies, standard organisations:
two options 183
11.4 Multiproduct, multinational companies, experimental organisations:
two options 184
11.5 International departments: marketing and finance 187
11.6 A scale of decentralisation: centralisation 193
12.1 A philosophy of international corporate planning 200
12.2 The dimensions of international planning 205
12.3 The organisation of corporate planning-three options 210
LIST OF TABLES
1.1 Trade and inflation 6
1.2 Sales of companies and gross domestic products of countries (in
special Drawing Rights) 1989 7
2.1 A formula for calculating trading costs and benefits to a company 25
2.2 A formula for calculating trading costs and benefits to the country 25
3.1 Corporate strategy 43
4.1 The exporter s dictionary 69
5.1 Licensing: a summary 82-3
5.2 The advantages of franchising 86
5.3 The disadvantages and problems associated with franchising 87
6.1 Reasons for establishing a foreign selling subsidiary 103
6.2 Reasons for establishing a foreign manufacturing subsidiary 104-5
8.1 Functions of international money management 137
8.2 Financial structure of a wholly-owned subsidiary 139
8.3 Sources of funds 140
10.1 The advantages and disadvantages of integrated international
production and sources of supply 173
13.1 Directions of trade in 1989 (exports in US$m) 216
13.2 Dependence on trade (exports as % of gross domestic product 1987) 217
13.3 Fluctuations in trade of selected commodities (US$000) 219
13.4 Increases (decreases) in flows of investment in recent years:
growth (decline), 1985 to 1989 220
13.5 Exports from Eastern Europe to the industrialised countries (US$m) 221
13.6 Trade of different regions-changes in share over six years 222
13.7 Trade of different regions-changes of share over seven years 227
13.8 Exchange rate changes, selected countries 229
x International Management
15.1 Country classification 246-8
15.2 Issues affecting the relationships between companies and
governments 251-2
17.1 International management: some landmarks of the future 296-7
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