This volume is dedicated to Lorraine Eden for her
lifetime contributions to IB scholarship. Her research, spanning several
decades, has addressed many interdisciplinary and societal themes at the heart
of the IB field. The story of her intellectual journey -- strongly influenced by
the coming of age of the fourth industrial revolution -- is shared in the opening chapter
of this volume.
This thirteenth volume in the PIBR series covers an increasingly important
area of research for International Business (IB) scholars: the role of
multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the digital and information age. A limited
number of MNEs now dominate the landscape of the digital age, but almost all
internationally operating firms are being affected by prevailing trends. How to
take stock of these trends? How to develop resilient international business
models? How to regulate? The digital age presents new opportunities but also
major challenges for established and emerging MNEs alike.
This volume brings together papers from leading IB scholars and from academics in adjacent disciplines such as economic geography,
international relations and political science, strategic management, and
technology studies.
Four dimensions of the information and digital age are analyzed using an IB angle:
Trends and theories in the information age
Entrepreneurial strategies in the information
age
Functional strategies in the information age
Industry 4.0
Professor Qiongwei Ye, Associate Professor Baojun Ma
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Internet + and Electronic Business in China is a comprehensive resource that provides insight and analysis into E-commerce in China and how it has revolutionized and continues to revolutionize business and society. Split into four distinct sections, the book first lays out the theoretical
foundations and fundamental concepts of E-Business before moving on to look at internet+ innovation models and their applications in different industries such as agriculture, finance and commerce. The book then provides a comprehensive analysis of E-business platforms and their applications in China
before finishing with four comprehensive case studies of major E-business projects, providing readers with successful examples of implementing E-Business entrepreneurship projects.
In a global age of disruption, future organisational change is not avoidable. Organisational effects will be immediate and transformational across companies, and due consideration and preparation ahead of these changes may be paramount for the survival of organisations and their leaders of
tomorrow.
Leading and Managing Change in the Age of Disruption and Artificial Intelligence modernises the topics of management, leadership, and organisational change to inform those leading and managing organisations into the future. The book covers modern disruptions ranging from Trump and other
geo-political changes, to Brexit, new currencies, trade wars, and even knowledge mobility. It also considers the broad scope of potential impacts posed by artificial intelligence.
With insights and strategies that the modern manager of the future can implement in their daily work, this book provides critical thinking that will future proof organisations with practical models. It will interest and inform managers and leaders across small and large organisations and will also
prove useful and thought-provoking to those studying in business related disciplines such as management, leadership, and organisational change.
Professor Markus Venzin, Assistant Professor Matteo Vizzaccaro, Fabrizio Rutschmann
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For many industries, mergers and acquisitions have become the main pathway for reaching strategic objectives like growth, technological leadership, or efficiency in production and distribution. However, the success rate of most M&A deals is low - and flawed. Unrealistic synergies, wrong target
selection, culture clashes and, most of all, weak post-merger integration processes pose huge challenges, and this book addresses the salient question of how to make M&A deals work.
The authors offer readers unique access to each stage of the M&A process, with added depth and perspective provided by Prysmian - the global leader in energy and telecom cables. Prysmian's perspective enables the authors to deliver a manual for successful M&A in mature industries that require high
levels of integration between operating companies.
This collection of existing M&A experiences that identify clear action steps will be an essential tool for managers to develop their growth strategies and accelerate their post-merger integration processes. This guide will also prove useful for practitioners and academics as they seek to improve the
ability of firms to conduct M&A, through dissemination in academic and executive classrooms.
Trade missions are a key commercial diplomacy instrument of governments around the world. Via trade missions, governments and politicians aim to promote their home country economy abroad as well as to support firms to explore and enter new markets. Despite its widespread usage, and the claims made
by governments about the positive results of trade missions, actual robust evidence of trade mission effectiveness is scarce. The reason for this lack of evidence is that trade missions are mostly studied and organized in ‘isolation’, disconnected from the participating firms’
level of international experience and international business competences.
This book presents a clear view on commercial diplomacy and defines trade missions as a firm internationalization learning experience. It outlines that trade mission's preparation, programme, and follow up, are key to making trade missions work. This book presents a research informed three-staged
model of a trade mission and presents in detail how a real life trade mission was organized along this model.
This example should inform and inspire organizers of trade missions. The book also aims to revamp and innovate trade mission research, and will therefore be a useful source for new trade mission research for international business scholars.
In an increasingly connected world experiencing accelerating
levels of technological disruption, the strategic challenges for business
leaders are greater than ever before, and conventional approaches to strategy
are unable to contend with today's VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous) business environment. A new approach to strategic decision-making is
required to motivate and mobilize stakeholders to achieve the business’s
overarching goals, such as making a profit and delivering on people- and planet-related
objectives.
Mapping
a Winning Strategy introduces
a new mapping method for creating and executing an effective business strategy.
This method uses visual maps to engage colleagues throughout the organization,
ensuring that every stakeholder’s voice is considered by avoiding a top-down
approach. It also enables business leaders to identify the strategic issues
they face without distraction, so that a clear path is formed towards the best
strategic plan. By mapping out the most effective strategy, organizations can
anticipate and manage roadblocks to strategic change and make winning and
well-executed operational choices.
Brexit is arguably the most significant UK foreign and economic policy event since at least 1945. Opinion is bitterly divided between whether to leave, when to leave, how to leave and even on what Brexit is. Mastering Brexits Through the Ages: Entrepreneurial Innovators and Small Firms - The
Catalysts for Success explores these dynamics through the lens of three previous 'Brexits' – the end of Roman Britain, the Henrician Reformation, and the Elizabethan age. Using multiple historical epithets, it illuminates insights into innovation needs, smaller firm growth, previous step
change events and related economic understanding. This book paints a broad picture of possible UK post-Brexit landscapes.
Echoing an earlier European Treaty (Versailles, 1919), fourteen action points that can contribute to mitigating downside risks and making post Brexit UK a leading force in the Global Economy are identified. At all times, dynamic entrepreneurs and small companies are at the centre of the
narrative.
This book is both a key contribution to understanding implementation risks and to identifying what a 'winning' post-Brexit UK economy should look like. Drawing on extensive research, the book identifies the strategic framework and associated practical measures needed to realise a positive outcome.
It concurrently analyses Brexit mythology through carefully unpicking and demystifying complexities, anticipated Brexit risks, impacts, implications and unknowns. A book for academics, policy makers, advisers and interested bystanders alike.
The most successful communication professionals are no longer just communication experts—they are masters of business. To serve as trusted advisors to the C-suite and to collaborate across the enterprise means it is necessary to have a strong grounding in business acumen.
Mastering Business provides strategic communications and public relations students and professionals with expert insights and advice into the various major business functions and departments. From an assemblage of top strategic communication leaders comes this collection of more than 20 essays from
current and former Chief Communications Officers (CCOs). The authors show the business areas that communicators help convene, integrate, and translate across their enterprises and to external stakeholders. Each chapter features a Career Spotlight by the CCO and a C-suite View response from a
business leader, including CEOs, presidents, and CFOs from household names like GE, GM, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and SAP.
This collection provides readers with a rare view of the leadership roles played by top strategic communicators inside some of today’s most well-known brands and organizations.
It is apparent that all forms of organisation have governance requirements and procedures but too often we just consider governance in a corporate environment. Equally it is accepted that the concept of governance is concerned with the relationship between the organisation and all of its
stakeholders but is too often interpreted as a concern for the relationship between a corporation and its investors. Still this is essentially true as far as most corporations are concerned. Such narrow views are unrealistic and are inappropriate in the modern global world which we inhabit and many
would blame problems with governance for the economic and financial turmoil which the world has experienced during the last decade. Much analysis has been undertaken about governance but little in the way of change is manifest and few seem to recognise both the need to consider radical changes in
the modern global environment and the opportunities and possibilities presented by the current environment. In this book therefore we take a broad (and possibly radical) approach and consider governance requirements in the modern world - not just for corporations but for all forms of organisation.
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are believed to contribute towards economic development of host countries through foreign direct investment (FDI), which results in poverty alleviation and human empowerment through linkages and spillovers with local stakeholders. However, earlier research
demonstrates that the positive impact of FDI is often inconclusive. There is thus a gap in understanding the link between the activities of MNEs in developing countries and their impact on socio-economic development.
This volume reports the results of a large international ‘MNEmerge’ research project, financed by the European Commission, and provides an understanding of the impact of MNEs on United Nations Millennium Development Goals and successive Sustainable Development Goals in developing
countries.