The Dynamic American Firm / Edition 1

by Kenneth Chilton, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Robert Batterson

Overview

Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way.
The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396628
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	03/31/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I. Responding to a Changing World.- 1. U.S. Firms in Transition.- II. External Shocks.- 2. Regionalization vs. Globalization of World Trade.- 3. The U.S.-EU Relationship: Friends and Competitors.- 4. Prospects for an Americas Free Trade Area.- 5. Japan’s Growing Influence in Asia: Implications for U.S. Business.- 6. Greater China: The Next Economic Superpower?.- 7. Capital Mobility: Challenges for Business and Government.- III. Going Global.- 8. Competing in a Global Marketplace.- 9. Business Responses to Foreign Government Barriers.- 10. Patterns of Economic Globalization by U.S. Manufacturers.- IV. Adjustment From Within.- 11. U.S. Firms Restructure and Revitalize.- 12 American Manufacturers Respond to the Global Marketplace.- 13. The Crumbling of the Old Social Contract.- 14. Fashioning a New Social Contract for the American Workplace.- V. Whither the U.S. Firm.- 15. The Rise of the Transnational Enterprise.

Editorial Reviews

The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. Particular attention is paid to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. It concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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