Strategic International Management Text and Cases

A compact overview of the most relevant concepts and developments in International Management. The various strategy concepts of internationally active companies and their implementation in practice are the core of this book. The authors describe the parti

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Strategic International Management Text and Cases 3rd Edition

Strategic International Management

Dirk Morschett  Hanna Schramm-Klein  Joachim Zentes

Strategic International Management Text and Cases 3rd Edition

Dirk Morschett University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland

Joachim Zentes Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany

Hanna Schramm-Klein University of Siegen Siegen, Germany

ISBN 978-3-658-07883-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-07884-3

ISBN 978-3-658-07884-3 (eBook)

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Preface

In this third edition, all chapters have been updated, new chapters integrated, all case studies revised and recent data were integrated. The concept, as it is described below, remained unchanged. Over the last few decades, international activities of companies have gained dramatically in importance. Empirical evidence for this statement can be found, for instance, in the rapid growth of world trade and in foreign direct investment flows as well as in the high share of intra-company trade on total world trade, indicating the relevance of cross-border value creation processes. Courses on International Management have, thus, become an integral part of most management studies at universities today and dedicated Masters and MBA programmes on International Management have emerged in recent years.

Concept and Overview of this Book This book intends to give a compact overview of the most relevant concepts and developments in International Management. Various strategy concepts of internationally active companies and their implementation in practice are the core of this book. It is not designed as a traditional tex