Internationalizing the medium-sized firm (Copenhagen studies in economics and management) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8716132327 ISBN 13: 9788716132321

Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press

Synopsis

Most excellent business schools have for a long time ascribed to an action-oriented philosophy of management education. This philosophy argues that students of business must do in order to achieve proficiency, and that managers succeed or fail not so much because of what they know, but as a result of what they do. This case book by two IMD professors is based on this philosophy, as well as their twenty years of management education experience. The collection of twelve cases are pedagogically sound, appealing to the class participants, stimulating to teach, and focused on the essential problems of managing firms going international. The twelve cases are based on in depth field research and close collaboration with the managers and companies described. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Going international; a tough issue for medium-sized firms: growth alone is not enough; developing the vision competitive advantage through internationalization; defining the internationalization process; facing up to change: understanding the management implications; conclusion Organization of the cases Learning from a case Cases: Panda Furniture - Belgium/U.S.A.; Toro: Industrial Flavor Systems - Norway; Delissa in Japan; Glamoxgruppen - Norway; Iskra Power Tools - Slovenia; Cochlear Bionic Ear - Australia; Jac Jacobsen Industrier A/S - Norway; Jordan A/S - Norway; Cochrane S.A. - Chile; Fundacin Chile - Chile; Mentec Ltd. - Republic of Ireland; Benetton - Italy Case research acknowledgments: description of case authors, International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland; biographical statement

Edition details

• Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8716132327
• ISBN 13: 9788716132321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300