Strategy and Geopolitics: Understanding Global Complexity in a Turbulent World

by Mike Rosenberg

Overview

Large western companies are accelerating their expansion into emerging economies, while relying on oversimplified frameworks to make decisions and complex matrix organizations to make things happen. When critical events do happen (such as terrorist attacks or civil wars), senior executives and the companies they lead are often taken by surprise. As the world shifts to a less stable geopolitical structure, only firms that can acquire a better capability to foresee and prepare for change will prevail over the long term. Strategy and Geopolitics provides a strategic framework that can help senior business executives address the challenges of globalization in this evolving geopolitical landscape. This book underlines the need to go beyond a simplistic understanding of different countries and territories: it discusses the geopolitical issues that can be the cause of success or failure in different markets; and it explores strategies for dealing with global and local complexity, as well as introducing innovative ideas on recruitment and organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787145689
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	07/21/2017
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Mike Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor at IESE Business School, joining the faculty after working for more than 15 years as a Management Consultant for companies such as Arthur D. Little, A.T. Kearney, and Heidrich & Struggles, working in Europe, North America, and Asia.  Mike teaches long-term strategy, scenario planning and analysis of business problems in IESE’s MBA, Global Executive MBA and Executive Education programmes. In addition to his academic work, Professor Rosenberg routinely consults with leading international companies and is asked to speak on topics relating to strategy, sustainability, and managing global firms. He is author of Strategy and Sustainability: A Hard Nosed Approach to Environmental Sustainability for Business (2014) and co-Editor of Managing Media Businesses: A Game Plan to Navigate Disruption and Uncertainty (2017).

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

Introduction xiii

1 Taken by Surprise 1

2 Why Many Businesses Have a Hard Time Internalizing Global Complexity 19

3 A Managerial Framework for Making Sense of a Complex World 39

4 Europe Stumbles Along 59

5 North and South America: Locked in an Awkward Embrace 87

6 China's Re-Emergence as a Global Power 115

7 Japan, Korea, and South East Asia: The Search for an Identity between two Giants 141

8 India at the Crossroads 171

9 Africa Rising: Will It Be the Next China? 197

10 The Middle East on the Brink of War and Peace 227

11 How to Develop a Resilient Business Strategy and Organization for a Complex World? 257

About the Author 279

Index 281

Editorial Reviews

Noting that political and social conditions in a country may well determine whether investments there return a profit, Rosenberg offers executives and board members of international companies a geopolitical perspective on the world as it is today as a tool kit to think through issues that affect their businesses in that part of the world where they operate. His purpose is not to replace deep analysis and the work of specialized consultants, but to give decision makers sufficient grounding in the field to ask better questions and decide for themselves what to do when faced with contradictory evidence.

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Noting that political and social conditions in a country may well determine whether investments there return a profit, Rosenberg offers executives and board members of international companies a geopolitical perspective on the world as it is today as a tool kit to think through issues that affect their businesses in that part of the world where they operate. His purpose is not to replace deep analysis and the work of specialized consultants, but to give decision makers sufficient grounding in the field to ask better questions and decide for themselves what to do when faced with contradictory evidence.

Annotation ©2017