International Business and Management

Derek S. Pugh is Emeritus Professor of International Manage­ment at the Open University, United Kingdom, having previously been at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aston, the London Business School, and the Open University Business School. He has been a visiting professor at business schools in France, Germany, Israel, and Italy and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Statistical Society, the Italian Academy of Business Administration, and the International Acad­emy of Management. He has served as Chairman and Honorary Vice-President of the Association of Teachers of Management of the United Kingdom and as editor of the newsletter of the British Academy of Management. He is a founding Academician of the British Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Northampton.  

Professor Pugh is joint author and editor of 12 books, including the first three volumes of the Aston research program: PUGH, D.S. (ed.) The Aston Programme, vols 1, 2 and 3, Ashgate(Dartmouth), 1998. His latest books are Great Writers on Organizations: The Second Omnibus Edition (2000, Dartmouth Publishing, with David J. Hickson), How to Get a Ph.D. (4th ed., 2005, Open University Press, with Estelle M. Phillips), Management Worldwide (enhanced ed., 2001, Penguin Books, with David J. Hickson), and Anglo-German Business Collaboration: Pitfalls and Potentials (1996, Macmillan, with Dagmar Ebster-Grosz). His edited volume Organization Theory: Selected Classic Readings (5th ed., Penguin Books) appears in 2007.

VOLUME ONE: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY PART ONE: HISTORY OF THE FIELD Background Concepts and Philosophy of International Business from World War Two to the Present - R D Robinson PART TWO: THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE ORGANIZATION The Path to Foreign Direct Investment A Synthesis of Foreign Direct-Investment Theories and Theories of The Multinational-Firm - A L Calvert International Investment and International Trade in the Product Life Cycle - R Vernon The Internationalization Process of the Firm - J Johanson and J E Vahlne A Model of Knowledge Development on Increasing Foreign Commitments Toward an Eclectic Theory of International Production - J H Dunning Some Empirical Tests Analyzing Foreign Market Entry Strategies - Peter J Buckley and Mark C Casson Extending the Internalization Approach Forces That Impinge on Internationalization Changing Patterns of International Competition - M E Porter Global Strategy - In a World of Nations - G S Yip The Effect of National Culture on the Choice of Entry Mode - B Kogut and H Singh Organizational Aspects of Internationalization The Tortuous Evolution of the Multinational Corporation - H V Perlmutter Managing across Borders - New Strategic Requirements - C A Bartlett and S Ghoshal Managing across Borders - New Organizational Responses - C A Bartlett and S Ghoshal PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY From Strategic Planning to Strategic Resources The Strategy of Multinational Enterprise - M Z Brooke and B S Remmers Organization and Finance A Conceptual and Operational Framework for Developing the Long-Range Planning Process - S Prakash Sethi and J Hogle Strategy and Structure in Multinational Corporations - A Revision of the Stopford and Wells Model - W G Egelhoff The Core Competence of the Corporation - C K Prahalad and G Hamel A Resource-Based Analysis of Global Competition - The Case of the Bearings Industry - D J Collis Developing Global Strategies for Service Businesses - C H Lovelock and G S Yip Strategic International Alliances Joint Ventures - Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives - B Kogut Competition for Competence and Inter-Partner Learning within International Strategic Alliances - G Hamel Interfirm Diversity, Organizational Learning and Longevity in Global Strategic Alliances - A Parkhe VOLUME TWO: THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL CULTURE ON MANAGEMENT PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND STYLES Organizational Contrasts on British and American Ships - S A Richardson Interpersonal Relations in International Organizations - H C Triandis Authority, Function and Status in British and Japanese Factories - R P Dore What Do Russian Managers Really Do? An Observational Study with Comparisons to US Managers - F Luthans, D H B Welsh and S A Rosenkrantz Anglo-German Business Collaboration - D Ebster-Grosz and D Pugh Pitfalls and Potentials PART TWO: ANALYTICAL COMPARISONS OF INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN MANAGEMENT Cultural Patterns in the Role of the Manager - M Haire, E E Ghiselli and L W Porter On Looking at an Elephant - K H Roberts An Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Research Related to Organizations For a Study of the 'Societal Effect' - M Maurice Universality and Specificity in Organization Research Motivation, Leadership and Organization - G Hofstede Do American Theories Apply Abroad? Culture, Contingency and Capitalism in the Cross-National Study of Organizations - J Child Clustering Countries on Attitudinal Dimensions - S Ronen and O Shenkar The Social Construction of Business Systems in East Asia - R D Whitley Culture and Congruence - K L Newman and S D Nollen The Fit between Management Practices and National Culture PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONAL CONSISTENCIES ACROSS CULTURES The Culture-Free Context of Organizational Structure - D J Hickson et al Communication and Decision-Making across Cultures - R T Pascale Japanese and American Comparisons Size and Bureaucracy in East and West - L Donaldson A Preliminary M