Table of Contents
Contributors1. Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage: An Introduction, Tamir Agmon and Richard DrobnickPart I Globalization: Should You Do It?2. How Small Firms Can Achieve Competitive Advantage in an Interdependent World, Yair AharoniPart II Changing Your Mind-Set, Changing Your Strategy3. What It Takes to Become a Globally Oriented Corporation, Christine R. Hekman4. Understanding Internationalization: Sense-Making Processes in Multinational Corporations, Paula J. Caproni, Stefanie Ann Lenway, and Thomas P. MurthaPart III The Environment of Global Markets5. The Accessibility of International Financial Markets, Mark Weinstein6. Accounting Aspects of Globalizing American Firms, Dan Elnathan and Jerry L. Arnold7. United States Trade Laws as Barriers to Globalization, Alan M. Rugman and Michael V. Gestrin8. Negotiating the Initial Phases of Cross-Cultural Alliances, Kathleen K. Reardon and Robert SpekmanPart IV Practical Applications9. The Transfer of Production Planning and Control Systems from Plants in the United States to Other Parts of the World, Gerhard Plenert10. Buyer-Supplier Coordination in the United States and Japanese Automobile Industries, Ben M. Bensaou11. Strategic Human Resource Management in Mexican Maquiladoras: The Competitive Edge, Mary B. Teagarden, Mark C. Butler, and Mary Ann Glinow12. Small and Midsize Enterprises in the United States and East-Central Europe: Common Challenges in te 1990s, Catherine L. MannIndex
