Ebook: The Dynamic American Firm

Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way.
The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.

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Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way.
The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.

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Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way.
The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
U.S. Firms in Transition....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Regionalization versus Globalization of World Trade....Pages 23-27
The U.S.-EU Relationship: Friends and Competitors....Pages 29-35
Prospects for an Americas Free Trade Area....Pages 37-59
Japan’s Growing influence in Asia: Implications for U.S Business....Pages 61-78
Greater China: The Next Economic Superpower....Pages 79-87
Capital Mobility: Challenges for Business and Government....Pages 89-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Competing in a Global Marketplace....Pages 105-121
Business Responses to Foreign Government Barriers....Pages 123-135
Patterns of Economic Globalization by U.S. Manufacturers....Pages 137-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
U.S. Firms Restructure and Revitalize....Pages 151-162
American Manufacturers Respond to the Global Marketplace....Pages 163-182
The Crumbling of the Old Social Contract....Pages 183-199
Fashioning a New Social Contract for the American Workplace....Pages 201-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
The Rise of the Transnational Enterprise....Pages 221-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-240

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Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way.
The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
U.S. Firms in Transition....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Regionalization versus Globalization of World Trade....Pages 23-27
The U.S.-EU Relationship: Friends and Competitors....Pages 29-35
Prospects for an Americas Free Trade Area....Pages 37-59
Japan’s Growing influence in Asia: Implications for U.S Business....Pages 61-78
Greater China: The Next Economic Superpower....Pages 79-87
Capital Mobility: Challenges for Business and Government....Pages 89-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Competing in a Global Marketplace....Pages 105-121
Business Responses to Foreign Government Barriers....Pages 123-135
Patterns of Economic Globalization by U.S. Manufacturers....Pages 137-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
U.S. Firms Restructure and Revitalize....Pages 151-162
American Manufacturers Respond to the Global Marketplace....Pages 163-182
The Crumbling of the Old Social Contract....Pages 183-199
Fashioning a New Social Contract for the American Workplace....Pages 201-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
The Rise of the Transnational Enterprise....Pages 221-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-240
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