The Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global VisionThe Multinational Mission, based on six years of research utilizing internal company documents and interviews with over 500 top executives in more than twenty global firms provides an explicit logic and a basis for top management to act. Using a comprehensive training framework called a responsiveness-integration grid authors C.K. Prahalad and Yves L. Doz show step by step how to formulate and implement strategic decisions that provide a winning innovative approach. |
Contents
Analysis for Strategy Development | 11 |
Management Responsibilities and Techniques | 155 |
AND CHANGE | 186 |
IMPEDIMENTS TO CHANGE | 217 |
MANAGING INTERDEPENDENCIES Across BUSINESSES | 235 |
TOWARD | 250 |
Notes | 273 |
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