This chapter outlines an approach to global strategy that focuses on the differences across countries, and describes the book's central goal: to help businesses...
This chapter summarizes evidence that the current state of the world is one of semiglobalization--increasingly, but far from completely, integrated--and explain...
This chapter enumerates the reasons that borders still matter and classifies them in terms of the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic distances b...
This chapter discusses why firms should globalize in a world in which distance still matters, presenting a scorecard for tracking value creation that includes b...
This chapter focuses on adaptation strategies for adding value in the face of large cross-border differences, exploring in detail the strategies of the world's ...
This chapter focuses on aggregation strategies that overcome some differences among countries by using various grouping devices to create greater economies of s...
This chapter focuses on arbitrage strategies that exploit selected differences across countries instead of treating them all as constraints, examining economic ...
This chapter examines the trade-offs among the AAA strategies--adaptation, aggregation, arbitrage--and the development of integrated strategies for playing the ...
This chapter takes a look at forecasts for the future of globalization, suggesting several paths for improvement, and concludes with a five-step framework for g...
Facilitates a discussion of the sources of Wal-Mart Stores' competitive advantage in discount retailing, and the future sustainability of that advantage. Also p...
Describes a company that had traditionally followed a strategy quite distinct from its major competitors', its eventual decision to imitate them, and its subseq...
This case series is a vehicle for examining the strategic logic and risks of preemption. Rewritten versions of earlier cases....
The Indian software industry, growing at more than 50% per annum and largely dependent on exports of services and products, is one of the few industries in that...
Presents the systematic evidence in the context of the microeconomic model of market integration. Market integration is just one (economic) aspect of globalizat...
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement....