Small Firms in Global Competition

At last something for small businesses in the international arena! This book fills a void. Small firms are too often overlooked by management scholars who tend to study multinationals when analyzing competitiveness in a global market place. But many small firms can also compete globally if they have the right management tools. Small Firms in Global Competition provides these tools. This book is must reading for the owners and managers of these companies and for students of international management.

• Contributors 1: Tamir Agmon and Richard Drobnick: Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage: An Introduction Part I Globalization: Should You Do It? 2: Yair Aharoni: How Small Firms Can Achieve Competitive Advantage in an Interdependent World Part II Changing Your Mind-Set, Changing Your Strategy 3: Christine R. Hekman: What It Takes to Become a Globally Oriented Corporation 4: Paula J. Caproni, Stefanie Ann Lenway, and Thomas P. Murtha: Understanding Internationalization: Sense-Making Processes in Multinational Corporations Part III The Environment of Global Markets 5: Mark Weinstein: The Accessibility of International Financial Markets 6: Dan Elnathan and Jerry L. Arnold: Accounting Aspects of Globalizing American Firms 7: Alan M. Rugman and Michael V. Gestrin: United States Trade Laws as Barriers to Globalization 8: Kathleen K. Reardon and Robert Spekman: Negotiating the Initial Phases of Cross-Cultural Alliances Part IV Practical Applications 9: Gerhard Plenert: The Transfer of Production Planning and Control Systems from Plants in the United States to Other Parts of the World 10: Ben M. Bensaou: Buyer-Supplier Coordination in the United States and Japanese Automobile Industries 11: Mary B. Teagarden, Mark C. Butler, and Mary Ann Glinow: Strategic Human Resource Management in Mexican Maquiladoras: The Competitive Edge 12: Catherine L. Mann: Small and Midsize Enterprises in the United States and East-Central Europe: Common Challenges in te 1990s Index