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Discover a Breakthrough Model for MNCs

In a dynamic global economy, multinational corporations (MNCs) face certain competitive challenges that traditional, hierarchical hub and spoke organizations simply aren't geared to meet. But in this landmark work, Harvard Business School professor Nitin Nohria and London Business School Professor Sumantra Ghoshal present a viable alternative -- the differentiated network. Writing for managers seeking changes in their administrative systems that boost firm performance, and for academics engaged in research organization design, the authors detail how the competitive MNC can fully tap the value creation potential of its globally distributed capabilities.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1296576 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 253 pages

From the Inside Flap
In a dynamic global economy, multinational corporations (MNCs) face certain competitive challenges that traditional, hierarchical "hub and spoke" organizations simply aren't geared to meet. But in this landmark work, authors Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal present a viable alternative — the differentiated network. Writing for managers seeking changes in their administrative systems that boost firm performance, and for academics engaged in research organization design, the authors detail how the competitive MNC can fully tap the value creation potential of its globally distributed capabilities. The authors build on their premise that the units of an MNC should be organized as a differentiated network in order to optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. By systematically grounding this core concept in organization theory and rigorously testing its validity using large sample data, they are able to offer practical application strategies. Nohria and Ghoshal draw on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs, and show why overall subsidiary performance is positively correlated with a high degree of internal differentiation and high levels of shared values across the subsidiaries. The nature and functioning of linkages within each national subsidiary, between headquarters and subsidiary, and among the subsidiaries themselves in explored in detail, as the importance of integrative mechanisms.The pioneering nature of their detailed research into the implications of organization theory allows Nohria and Ghoshal to draw the most reliable and robust real-world conclusions about the differentiated network ever available. As such, the organizational model they present in The Differentiated Network can be used by any multinational corporation seeking competitive advantage in the worldwide marketplace...today and well into the foreseeable future

From the Back Cover
In a dynamic global economy, multinational corporations (MNCs) face certain competitive challenges that traditional, hierarchical "hub and spoke" organizations simply aren't geared to meet. But in this landmark work, Harvard Business School professor Nitin Nohria and London Business School Professor Sumantra Ghoshal present a viable alternative — the differentiated network. Writing for managers seeking changes in their administrative systems that boost firm performance, and for academics engaged in research organization design, the authors detail how the competitive MNC can fully tap the value creation potential of its globally distributed capabilities.

About the Author
NITIN NOHRIA is professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the co-editor of Fast Forward and Networks and Organizations, and the co-author of Beyond the Hype. His teaching, research and consulting focus on designing and transforming organizations to achieve superior performance. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. ANUP K. GHOSH is holder of the Robert P. Bauman Chair in Strategic Leadership at the London Business School. He has also taught in the Sloan School, MIT, and at France's INSEAD. Co-author of Managing Across the Borders and other books, his award-winning case stutides, research and consulting focus on the management of large worldwide firms. He lives in London, England.

Customer Reviews

What create competitive advantage of Multi National Corporat
This book is good. It helps us to grasp reality the manager in multi National Corporation face. Based on effective theory of growth of the firm, empirical analysis implicates internal organization forms influence competitive advantage of multi National Corporation. (It support lundvall influential book on enational system and innovationf) It is interesting.

Collection of excellent academic papers
This book may treat as contiuation of Managing Across Borders. However it's more academic in content. Most content appeared in academic journals. It's valuable for whose interested in MNC management, organizational theory. Besides, focus on western MNCs, it's a great work.