Borderless Business Managing the Far-Flung Enterprise

Subjects:

• Business » International Business
• Business » Management

Reviews:

• Mann and Götz present 14 papers in which authors from varied branches of management studies explore the challenges of globalization, whether those challenges call for a shift in management thinking, and the particular competencies and skills needed to address such challenges. Individual chapters explore these questions from the perspectives of marketing; supply networks; human resources development; trade and government regulations; the business legal environment; risk management; knowledge management; accounting, taxation, and corporate governance; finances; diversity management; corporate culture; and ethics and corporate social responsibility.
  —Reference & Research Book News November 2006

• Endorsement From Martin Gannon
  Professor of Strategy and Global Management
  California State University San Marcos
  Professor Emeritus
  University of Maryland of College Park
  author of Understanding Global Culture: Borderless Business should be the book of choice for managers, potential managers, students, and the general reader seeking to understand the complexities of globalization and its effects on business firms, nations, executives, and employees. Its distinctive features include a crystal-clear writing style, a wide and all-encompassing range of topics, vivid examples, summary highlighted points of emphasis, insightful charts and figures, and deep understanding of each major topic. I strongly recommend the book.
• Endorsement From John H. Dunning
  Emeritus, Professor of International Business
  Reading and Rutgers Universities: This is a truly first rate book--one of the best I have read on the current challenges and opportunities of globalization. It is eminently readable, and addresses a set of key issues in international business from an interdisciplinary perspective. Its emphasis on the cultural and institutional imperatives of local and regional communities, and on mobilizing creativity and commitment in MNEs, is particularly germane to our contemporary globalizing economy. The editors are to be congratulated for assembling and integrating such an interesting, incisive, and relevant selection of essays. This work deserves the widest possibly audience of business students, scholars, and executives of global companies.
• Endorsement From Sunil K. Munjal
  Chairman of Hero Corporate Service Ltd.
  New Delhi, India: Borderless Business is essential reading for senior managers and CEOs looking beyond their domestic markets at new growth territories. The book realistically maps some of the key transition challenges that corporations often underestimate while expanding their operations overseas, and it also provides important lessons for managers who often have to tussle between short-term shareholder pressures and long-term vision. I recommend this book for all practicing managers.

Table of Contents:

• \oreword
• Overview: Forces Shaping the Global Business Environment
• SECTION I. FOCUSING ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS
• Strategy in a Global Context
• Marketing across the World
• Managing Global Supply Networks
• Human Resources Development Strategy
• SECTION II. LEVERAGING THE ENVIRONMENT
• Trade and Government relations
• The Fragmented Legal Environment of Global Business
• Managing Country Risk
• SECTION III. ADDING ENTERPRISE VALUE
• Managing Knowledge in the Extended Enterprise
• International Accounting, Taxation, and Corporate Governance
• Road Map To Changing Financial Environment
• SECTION IV. MOBILIZING CREATIVITY AND COMMITMENT
• The Global Leader
• Cultivating Global Teams: Diversity Management Squared
• Toward the Transnationalization of Corporate Culture
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Conclusions: An Emerging Global Management Paradigm
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index