Dear IMD Colleagues:
This is to let you know about a new book we recently published with Routledge as a part of their "Studies in Development Economics" series.
Title: The Multinational <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:city> in Developing Countries: Local Versus Global Logic
Editors: Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, Ali Taleb
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Routledge (August 31, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0415492521
ISBN-13: 978-0415492522
Webpage: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415492522/
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu and Ali Taleb
Introduction Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu and Ali Taleb
> Part 1: Local-Global View of Multinationals in Developing Countries
1. Organizational and Institutional Rationalities and Western Firms in Emerging Countries: Proposal for a Local/Global Analytical Model by Sid Ahmed Soussi
2. Strategy Implementation in Emerging Countries: Three Theoretical Approaches by Claude Marcotte, Sid Ahmed Soussi, Rick Molz, Mehdi Farashahi, Taieb Hafsi
> Part 2: Theoretical Considerations
3. West Meets South East: A Cultural Fit of Goal Setting Theory to the Filipino Workforce by Pamela Lirio
4. Emergent global institutional logic in the multinational corporation by Gwyneth Edwards
5. Political strategies of MNEs in emerging economies: A theoretical model by Shoaib Ul-Haw and Mehdi Farashahi
6. Business groups and corporate governance in emerging markets by Natalya Totskaya
7. Entrepreneurship, firm size and knowledge transfer to developing and emerging countries by Claude Marcotte
> Part 3: Empirical Perspectives
8. A comparison of foreign acquisitions in the Brazilian Electricity Industry: What determines success? by Marcos Bosquetti, Rick Molz and Taïeb Hafsi
9. Behaviour of MNEs in developing countries: Having a sense of the "good" through "smart partnerships" in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:place></st1:country-region> by Rabia Naguib
10. Environment, strategy and leadership patterns as determinants of firm performance: The case of a developing country by Taïeb Hafsi and Bernard Gauthier
> Part 4: Emerging Global Roles of Local Firms
11. Multinationals and corporate environmental strategies: Fostering subsidiary initiative by Catalin Ratiu and Rick Molz
12. Emerging multinationals from developing countries: Would their exposure to eclectic institutional conditions grant them unique comparative advantages? by Ali Taleb
> Conclusion
13. The challenges of developing competitive advantage from local and the differential logics by Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu and Ali Taleb
Best regards,
Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, and Ali Taleb
Montreal Local-Global Research Group (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
www.localglobalresearch.org