Book Summary of International Management: A Strategic Approach

International Management: A Strategic Perspective uses strategy as its unifying theme to explore the global economy and the impact of managerial decisions. By examining comparative management issues thoroughly, this text reveals the strengths and weaknesses of competitors and how to adapt organizational practices. Cullen/Parboteeah also covers the key topics of formation and implementation of strategies in the global environment, the building of strategic alliances, negotiation and cross-cultural communication, international human resource management, and business ethics.

Key Feature

• Diverse Examples: More varied examples from global regions including Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

• Chapter Activities: Multinational Management Skill Builder is a new feature located at the end of each chapter to develop users' management skills.

• World Map: Includes a full color Rand McNally World Map free with every new text.

• Issues in eBusiness: Chapter 9 highlights the benefits and challenges of Multinational E-Commerce for all types of global businesses addressing this emerging and rapidly growing sector of management.

• Small Business Coverage: Chapter 10 is dedicated to exploring the unique opportunities and challenges facing small businesses in becoming multinational companies.

• Balanced Cases: Cullen/Parboteeah upholds its reputation with an extensive use and balance of long and short cases of varying level of complexity to accommodate the needs of a variety of instructors and learners.

• Preview Cases: Each chapter contains an opening case designed to introduce the subject matter and to stimulate the learner to actively think about the cases relevancy and impact.

• Case in Point: These examples are drawn from actual multinational companies and offer a realistic look into decision making and the challenges of global business.

• Management Challenge: This highly acclaimed feature allows learners "behind the scene" to follow real discussions as managers make difficult decisions.

• Integrated Cases: Interwoven at the end of each Part, these cases provide a unifying thread for investigating the role of the multinational manager.

• Currency: The text has been updated to include the latest findings, examples, and statistics in international management to create the most accurate and up-to-date presentation.

• Optional Free Student Study Guide on CD-ROM: This optional CD-ROM includes practice quizzes, world maps, the CIA World Fact Book, chapter outlines, Power-point slides, a glossary, and links to resources on the Web. The CD-ROM is available for free as a special package with the textbook.

• InfoTrac College Edition (ICE): Packaged with InfoTrac College Edition, free of charge! ICE is a fully search-able on-line database that gives users access to full-text articles from more than 900 periodicals.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations of Multinational Management.

1. The Challenge of Multinational Management in a Changing World.

2. Culture and Multinational Management.

3. The Institutional Context of Multinational Management.

Part II: Strategy Content and Formulation for Multinational Companies.

4. Strategic Management in a Multinational Company.

5. Multinational Participation Strategies: Content and Formulation.

6. Multinational Strategy and the Small Business

Part III: Strategy Implementation for Multinational Companies: Design Choices.

7. Organizational Designs for Multinational Companies.

8. International Strategic Alliances.

9. Multinational E-Commerce

Part IV: Strategy implementation for multinational companies: human resource management.

10. International Human Resource Management.

11. HRM in the Local Context: Knowing When and How to Adapt.

Part V: Strategy Implementation for Multinational Companies: Interaction Processes.

12. International Negotiation and Cross-Cultural Communication.

13. Motivating People in Multinational Companies.

14. Managerial Behavior and Leadership in Multinational Companies.

Part VI: The ethical context of multinational management.

15. Ethical Decision-making and Social Responsibility in Multinational Companies