Global Business Strategy, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 11

Globalizing the Management Model

Introduction

The careful globalization of a company’s management model is critical to unlocking the potential for global competitive advantage. However, globalizing a company’s management model can be ruinous if conditions are not right or the process for doing so is flawed. Key questions include: When and to what extent should a company globalize its decision-making processes and its organizational and control structure? What are some of the key implementation challenges? How does a company get started?

Challenges in Globalizing the Management Model

Globalizing a company’s management model is difficult. As firms expand into more countries and extend the lifecycles of existing products by bringing them ...