Transnational Management: Text and Cases in Cross-Border Management, 8/e (Paperback)

Transnational Management provides an integrated conceptual framework to guide students and instructors through the challenges facing today's multinational enterprises. Through text narrative and cases, the authors skilfully examine the development of strategy, organizational capabilities, and management roles and responsibilities for operating in the global economy. The key concepts are developed in eight chapters that are supplemented by carefully selected practical case studies from world-leading case writers. All chapters have been revised and updated for this eighth edition to reflect the latest thinking in transnational management while retaining the book's strong integrated conceptual framework. Ten new cases have been added, and four others updated. A full range of online support materials are available, including detailed case teaching notes, almost 200 PowerPoint slides, and a test bank. Suitable for MBA, executive education and senior undergraduate students studying international management, international business or global strategy courses, Transnational Management offers a uniquely global perspective on the subject.
●An integrated research-based conceptual framework links strategy, organization and management to help students develop a clear and consistent view of the integrated agenda of transnational management
●Conceptual frameworks and theoretical models are linked to practical application through carefully selected and relevant practical case materials
●Concepts and cases represent the strategic, organizational and management challenges of firms in both developed and developing countries, providing students with a geocentric rather than ethnocentric world perspective

Christopher A. Bartlett, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Christopher A. Bartlett is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching have focused on strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in multinational corporations. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Managing across Borders: The Transnational Solution (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal, 2002), which was named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential business books of the twentieth century. He has also researched and written over 100 case studies and teachings notes, and is Harvard's best-selling case author with over 6 million copies sold. In 2001, he received the Academy of Management's International Division's Distinguished Scholar Award. His is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, the Strategic Management Society, and the World Economic Forum.

Paul W. Beamish, University of Western Ontario
Paul W. Beamish is the Canada Research Chair in International Business at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario. He has received best research awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. He was previously Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies. His cases have been studied over 3 million times, with over 20 winning awards. In 2012, he was the recipient of the International Management Outstanding Educator Award and, in 2017, the recipient of the International Management Eminent Scholar Award, both from the Academy of Management. He is the editorial director of Ivey Publishing, and director of Ivey's International Business Institute. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Royal Society of Canada, and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

1. Expanding abroad: motivations, means and mentalities
2. Understanding the international context: responding to conflicting environmental forces
3. Developing transnational strategies: building layers of competitive advantage
4. Developing a transnational organization: managing integration, responsiveness, and flexibility
5. Creating worldwide innovation and learning: exploiting cross-border knowledge management
6. Engaging in cross-border collaboration: managing across corporate boundaries
7. Building new management capabilities: key to effective implementation
8. Shaping the transnational's future: defining an evolving global role.