Readings in International Enterprise

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date compendium of key readings on international business theory and practice. Selected for the Open Business School MBA courses on "International Enterprise", the collection includes some of the most influential articles to have appeared on the subject, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic.

The readings are divided into two parts. The first covers the theory and practice of international business strategies along with the human resource management necessary to develop these strategies across the world. The second part of the volume covers different sectors of international enterprise: communications, marketing, production, finance, business ethics.

The volume will be an essential companion to international business courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

• Part I: International enterprise: strategies and people
1. The effects of gloablization and turbulence on policy-making processes
   Miriam L. Campanella
2. The determinants and dynamics of national advantage
   Michael E. Porter
3. Horses for courses: organizational forms for multinational corporations
   Sumantra Ghoshal and Nitin Nohria
4. Thinking globally, acting locally
   Anthony G. Eames
5. The internationalization of the firm: four Swedish cases
   Jan Johansson and Finn Wiedersheim-Paul
6. Business environment assessment
   Daniel A. Sharp
7. International economic integration: progress, prospects and implications
   David Henderson
8. The cultural relativity of organizational practices and theories
   Geert Hofstede
9. Developing a 'European' model of human resource management
   Chris Brewster
• Part II: International enterprise: communications, marketing, production and finance
10. Tech talk: how managers are stimulating global R&D communication
    Arnoud De Meyer
11. Rattling SABRE: new ways to compete on information
    Max D. Hopper
12. Technik: managers and management in Germany
    Peter Lawrence
13. Finance and global competition: exploiting financial scope and coping with volative exchange rates
    Donald R. Lessard
14. Trade, location of economic activity and the multinational enterprise: a search for an eclectic approach
    John H. Dunning
15. Is manufacturing still special in the new world order?
    Richard Brown and DeAnne Julius

School-literature.

It could be much worse. As it stands, it is a number of good authors with abridged articles, that have very little cohesion or correlation, except that they all talk about multinational/transnational/international issues.