Developing Transnational Organization,Managing Integration, Responsiveness, and Flexibility

_SLIDE_1_ Developing Transnational Organization Managing Integration, Responsiveness, and Flexibility _SLIDE_2_ Beyond Structural Fit MNE tried to find which “Formal Structure” provided the right “Fit” in various conditions Management Process in an MNE Choice of a basic Organizational Structure Stopford & Wells’s International Structural Stages Model _SLIDE_3_ Stopford & Wells’s International Structural Stages Model Adopt different organizational structures at different stages of international expansion Research on the 187 largest U.S-based MNEs _SLIDE_4_ For many companies, It seems that structure followed “fashion” more than strategy. Limitation of International Structural Stages Model _SLIDE_5_ Change in the 1980s, Managers looked for ways to restructure. The model’s solution was “Global Matrix” But, Limitation of International Structural Stages Model Global Matrix Promised Land Organiza- tional quagmire _SLIDE_6_ The basic problem was that It…
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