A New Generation in International Strategic Management - 9781847200389

Operating with the belief that some of the most innovative and original research being done in the area of international strategic business management is being done by younger scholars whose contributions are slow to disseminate in the literature, Tallman (business, U. of Richmond) here collects 18 papers from younger contributors rather than the "usual suspects." Topics addressed include geographic diversification as risk reduction or operational flexibility, types of difficulties in internationalization and their consequences, research and development internationalization as a means of building organizational capabilities to balance exploration and exploitation, real options theory and international strategic management, organizing for discontinuous knowledge flows, building and leveraging knowledge capabilities through cross-border acquisitions, non-transitive decision making about partner selection in international research and development alliances, evolution of outcomes in international strategic alliances, global cities and multinational corporation investment, cultural and institutional determinants of agglomeration, local clusters with non-local demand in the Indian information technology industry, technology as a remedy for political risks, the role of geographic distance in foreign direct investment, and psychic distance and directional equivalence. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)