Strategic alliances as well as networks among firms are big issues in current business practice. The economy is changing from indepedent firms to a network economy. Paul R. Kleindorfer, Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Robert E. Gunther have edited a new book ‘The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in an Interlinked World’ dedicated to this [...]

In her new book “SuperCorp“, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter details how vanguard companies such as IBM, Cemex, and Omron are rewriting the nature of the business enterprise and how firms will gain sustainable prosperity in the 21st century. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.management-lab.com%2Fmanagementlab%2F%3Fp%3D350′; addthis_title = ‘SuperCorp%3A+Values+as+Guidance+System’; addthis_pub = ”;

Ilan Alon (Rollins College, USA), Julian Chang (Harvard University, USA), Marc Fetscherin (Rollins College, USA), Christoph Lattemann (University of Potsdam, Germany) and John R. McIntyre (Georgia Tech, USA) have published a new book focussing on globalization. The new book “China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation” describes the development of Chinese MNC as a new feature [...]

This book provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to management strategy that is based on economics. A basic introductory strategy text that integrates economic analysis with management strategy, it takes into account global competition and high-tech (Internet) developments, and recognizes that companies today can no longer expect to sustain competitive advantage but must rely on [...]

“GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything” by Harold L. Sirkin, James W. Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya describe how the old model of globalization is evolving into a new phase in which “challengers” from rapidly developing economies are competing with incumbent Western giants. Table of Contents What is Globality? Tsunami Minding the Cost [...]