Geopolitics and Strategic Management in the Global Economy

Geopolitics and Strategic Management in the Global Economy

Angelo Presenza, Lorn R. Sheehan

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 401

ISBN13: 9781522526735|ISBN10: 1522526730|EISBN13: 9781522526742

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2673-5

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As the world continues to evolve, globalization remains a key topic area among scholars and practitioners across disciplines and industries. It is essential for managers to stay informed and look out for potential threats that can negatively affect global operations.

Geopolitics and Strategic Management in the Global Economy is a pivotal reference publication featuring the latest scholarly research on an international view of the challenges and opportunities organizations face in the global marketplace. Including coverage on a broad range of topics such as firm competitiveness, project management, and social capital, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, students, and managers seeking current research on best ways to handle international management issues.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage (ABSCA) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System: The Role of Regional Trade Agreements (pages 1-18)

James P. Murphy, Carolan McLarney

Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System: The Role of Regional Trade Agreements is a discussion about the new reality and the evolution of the reduction of international barriers to freer trade under the World Trade...

Chapter 2

What Makes a Global Business Model? (pages 19-39)

Oleksiy Osiyevskyy, Milena Troshkova, Yongjian Bao

A firm's business model is an essential mechanism determining how an organization creates value for its stakeholders and captures part of the created value as profit for its owners. Global enterprises secure their market...

Chapter 3

Critical Success Factors for Executives in Global Economy (pages 40-56)

Neeta Baporikar

With the convergence of information, communication and technology and global collaboration drives in modern management, it becomes imperative and crucial to understand the critical success factors (CSFs) for executives. In this...

Chapter 4

Strategic Planning, Cultural Context, and Business Continuity Management: Business Cases in the City of Shkoder (pages 57-77)

Mirko Perano, Xhimi Hysa, Mario Calabrese

This study is focused on the role, importance and practice of Business Continuity Management (BCM) in relation with Strategic Planning (SP) and Cultural Context (CC) by offering a holistic framework for short-term and long-term...

Chapter 5

A Proposition of Strategy Making in Global Firms: Reflections from Strategy as Practice (S-As-P) (pages 78-95)

Fatma Gülruh Gürbüz, Hande Sinem Ergun, Seray Begum Samur-Teraman

Strategy as Practice (hereafter S-As-P) is referred as a research topic concerning with the doing of strategy; who does it, what they do, how they do it, what they use and what implications this has for shaping strategy. The...

Chapter 6

Efficacy of Organizational Learning and Social Capital in Online Communities of Practice: Dualities and Intersections (pages 96-122)

Serkan Gürsoy, Murat Yücelen

This chapter deals with the evolution of communities of practice by considering two key components which facilitate knowledge sharing: Organizational Learning and Social Capital. Dualities and intersections between the building...

Chapter 7

Social Innovation in the For-Profit Organization: The Case of Banca Prossima (pages 123-136)

Tindara Abbate, Angelo Presenza, Lorn R. Sheehan

Social entrepreneurship and social innovation are attracting increasing attention from policy makers, practitioners, as well as academics. They represent different ways of thinking and addressing social issues often overlooked by...

Chapter 8

Managing Business Ethics in a Global Environment: The Impact of Cultural Diversities (pages 137-169)

Rossella Canestrino, Pierpaolo Magliocca

The aim of this chapter is to explore the how international players, acting at global level, may overcome a “moral gap” when it arises. In doing this, the linkage between culture and Business Ethics was examined in order to highlight...

Chapter 9

Project and Risk Management in a Global Context: The Importance of Cultural Risk (pages 170-193)

Mirko Perano, Bice Della Piana, Gian Luca Casali

Project management is one of the possible ways to improve the organizational reputation and create value. The control achievable on each project' constrains (time, cost and quality) and the actions consequent by assessment...

Chapter 10

Water-Related Price Risks: Implications for Company Competitiveness (pages 194-218)

Ninel Ivanova Nesheva-Kiosseva

This chapter presents the issue of the risks associated with the increase of the price (tariffs) of water, which are, and promise to be, a growing challenge for the sustainable management of the companies. At the beginning of the...

Chapter 11

National Income Inequality, Society, and Multinational Enterprises (pages 219-241)

Nathaniel C. Lupton, Guoliang Frank Jiang, Luis F. Escobar

This chapter calls for understanding the perspective of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on international differences in income inequality. The authors set a research agenda on how national differences in income inequality influence...

Chapter 12

Low vs. High Income Entrepreneurial Households: Heterogeneous Response to Common Institution Environment in Developing Countries (pages 242-260)

Stelvia Matos, Jeremy Hall, Vernon Bachor, Bruno S. Silvestre

We explore how income differences influence heterogeneous entrepreneurial responses to the institutional environment in Brazil shapes low-income entrepreneurs' propensity to exploit the informal rather than the formal economy....

Chapter 13

Determining Influencing Factors of Currency Exchange Rate for Decision Making in Global Economy Using MARS Method (pages 261-273)

Hasan Dinçer, Ümit Hacıoğlu, Serhat Yüksel

The aim of this study is to identify the determinants of US Dollar/Turkish Lira currency exchange rate for strategic decision making in the global economy. Within this scope, quarterly data for the period between 1988:1 and 2016:2...

Chapter 14

Economic Partnership Agreement Mexico-Japan and Its Impact on Foreign Direct Investment: A Strategic Analysis (pages 274-294)

José G. Vargas-Hernández

This chapter is intended to analyze the advantages to associate with a developing country like México from the perspective of the theories of the Agency, Institutional, Resource-based Theory and the Theory of Transaction Costs....

Chapter 15

A Profile of Foreign Nationals in a Globalising Second-Tier City, Suzhou, China (pages 295-314)

Hyung Min Kim

The recent development of Chinese cities has witnessed an increasing number of foreign nationals working in China. Foreign nationals tied up with MNEs are one of the powerful drivers for urban transformation in the post-reform era....

Chapter 16

Cooperation and Competition Among Regions: The Umbrella Brand as a Tool for Tourism Competitiveness (pages 315-336)

Arminda Almeida Santana, Sergio Moreno Gil

Many brands exist within the tourism industry. Territorial brands exist at local, regional, national, and supranational level where they overlap and are interrelated. Therefore, it is necessary that tourist destinations develop and...

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