Total Global Strategy - Hardcover

Yip, George

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ISBN 10: 0133576582 ISBN 13: 9780133576580

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1992

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How can managers cope with the forces of globalization? Which companies need a global strategy? What is a successful global strategy? How can business organizations implement worldwide initiatives? These are some of the most challenging questions facing multinational companies today. Executives need to recognize that the traditional multinational approach--in which country subsidiaries design, produce, and market products tailored to local needs--is being made obsolete by falling trade barriers, costly and quickly changing technology, and the growing similarity of international customer needs. Companies now need a total global strategy that combines a successful core strategy in the home market with effective international adaptation and global integration. George Yip's Total Global Strategy is the definitive work on how companies can manage for worldwide competitive advantage. This work is based on a five-year research program in which Dr. Yip interviewed over fifty senior executives at twenty-three of the world's largest American, European, and Japanese multinational companies, as well as on his twenty years of involvement with multinational companies as a manager, consultant, and educator in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Yip provides the first systematic, comprehensive, balanced, and practical approach to developing a global strategy: diagnosing industry globalization potential, achieving global market participation, designing global products and services, locating global activities, creating global marketing, making global competitive moves, building the global organization, and measuring the use of global strategy. The final, highly innovative, chapter of the book provides astep-by-step guide, with worksheets, on how to conduct a global strategy analysis. The book is also filled with examples and case studies of American, European, and Japanese companies to illustrate and support key points. Total Global Strategy is essential reading for both inter

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About the Author:

George S. Yip is Professor of Strategic and International Management and the Andersen Research Fellow for the Network Economy at London Business School, and also Associate Dean and head of the Fulltime MBA Program. He was previously the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Magdalene College, and has also held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and UCLA, and visiting positions at the China-Europe International Business School. Georgetown University, Stanford Business School, and Templeton College, Oxford. He has won both teaching and research awards. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and Co-Chairman of Perseus Consulting, a firm that leverages a worldwide network of faculty experts. He also worked for ten years in management positions with major multinational companies and consulting firms. and now serves on a number of corporate boards.

He is Joint Managing Editor of Business Strategy Review, Associate Editor of Journal of International Business Studies, and serves on the editorial advisory boards of Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Long Range Planning and Marketing Management. He is the author of Barriers to Entry Asian Advantage: Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region and Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe; and of articles in the Columbia Journal of World Business, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Cambridge University. a master's degree from the Cranfield School of Management, and an M.B.A. and doctorate from Harvard Business School.

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Written by the subject's leading academic authority on global strategy, George S. Yip, this edition of Total Global Strategy II addresses the most challenging task faced by multinational companies: how to deal with globalization and the resulting need for globally integrated strategies. Total Global Strategy II covers every aspect of global strategy and global integration and provides a systematic framework for evaluating which elements of strategy to globalize and by how much. This edition also contains numerous examples of global strategy and end-of-chapter questions.

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