Management International: Cases, Exercises and Readings

Marcic, Dorothy and Puffer, Sheila.

St. Paul, MN: West, 1994,460 pp.

Contents

List of Contributors

  1. Developing global consciousness: Competitiveness and culture

Cases and Exercises:

-A way of getting at American values: exercise

-“ As if….” Exercise: exercise

-Cultural Stereotypes: exercise

-Dimensions of national culture and effective leadership patterns: exercise

-Alcot Sato Machine Tool Company: case

Readings:

-Cultural constraints in management theories

-Global corporate competition

-Adaptation from Michael Porter

  1. Cross Cultural awareness and sensitivity

Cases and Exercises:

-Chinese, Indian and American values: exercise

-Understanding Japan: exercise

-The East-West game: exercise

-Critical incidents in cross-cultural understanding: exercise

-An exercise in international negotiations: exercise

-Lao Bao’s: case

-Duo Tsai Paint company: case

-International negotiations case: When cultures collide: case

Readings:

-Insights into international negotiations

-A linkage between Confucianism and Chinese family firm in the republic of China.

-A miss manners guide to doing business in Europe.

  1. Ethics

Cases and Exercises:

-Bribery in international business: exercise

-Chicago Medical supplies Corporation: Explaining Sales in India: case

-A different situation: Maintaining sales in Japan: case

-H.B.Fuller in Honduras: case

Readings:

-The globalization of business ethics

-The foreign Corrupt practices Act

  1. Human resource management

Cases and Exercises:

-Ellen Moore in Bahrain: case

-Comrade’s dilemma: From communism to free enterprise: exercise

-Management education and employee training at Moscow McDonald’s: case

-The international orientation scale: exercise and case

Readings:

-Entry shock, Culture shock

-Executive compensation in the international arena

  1. Managing a diverse workforce

Cases and Exercises:

-Northern industries (US): case

-Women in management around the world: exercise

-Valentina on the verge: case

Readings:

-Women mangers in the USSR

-Women: world class managers for global competition

  1. Multinational parent-subsidiary and joint ventures relationships

Cases and Exercises:

-Getting along with parents: exercise

-Rough times at Nomura: case

-Misr Acrylic and American Standard: case

-Ferox manufactured products: case

Readings:

-Joint ventures in Hungary

-The Japanese managers traumatic entry in US

  1. Strategy

Cases and Exercises:

-Saab-Scania’s niche strategy: case

-Formulating strategy for a merchandising firm in Malaysia: case

-KNP, N.V. (Holland): case

-Critical incidents in international strategy: exercise

Readings:

-Global strategy, competence building and strategic alliances

-Great strategy or great strategy implementation: 2 ways of competing in global markets

  1. Financial and political risk

Cases and Exercises:

-The wave that shook the world: exercise

-Textiles in Sudan: case

-GOMEP: A mangers day in a developing country ( Dominican Republic): case

-Belco Petroleum: case

-HondoRiver Enterprises: case

Readings:

-What executives should know about political risks

-Managers views on potential investment opportunities

-Compettiveness and the “global capital shortage”

  1. European and North American integration

Cases and Exercises:

-Cadbury Schweppes, PLC: case

-Mr. Jax Fashions Inc. (Canada): case

-The Mexican automobile industry and NAFTA: case

Readings:

-Strategic alliances: Gateway to the new Europe

-NAFTA strategies for Canadian manufacturers

-NAFTA: The fight and the facts