Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm: Enterprise and Renewal

by Julian Birkinshaw

Overview

‘A major contribution of this exciting book is the perspective of the subsidiary manager operating network... In its extreme version this means that all managers are subsidiary managers… challenging those who still view multinationals as hierarchies. With exceptional clarity of thought and writing, Julian Birkinshaw stakes out the ground as a major new thinker of the fields of international business and strategic management ' - Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of Oxford

Much current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the external environment in which firms operate. Julian Birkinshaw's book looks within international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and position. Are

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761958093
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/06/2000
Series:	SAGE Strategy series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Julian Birkinshaw teaches and researches in international business and strategty at the London Business School.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview
Types of Subsidiary Initiative
Fighting the Corporate Immune System
How the Initiative Process Works
The Consequences of Initiative
Perspectives on the Theory of Entrepreneurship
Mapping the Process of Subsidiary Evolution
Perspectives on Theory of the Multinational Firm
An Internal Market Model of the Multinational Firm
Implications for Management Practice