Global Strategy

How to Achieve Benefits from Diversity in International Alliances?

International alliances face a dilemma. Cross-national differences offer valuable complementarities, but they can also spark a negative spiral of dysfunctional conflict. Our study shows that task discourse is an important…

Fainshmidt, Smith and Judge

This study examines how national competitiveness, measured as productivity per worker, is fostered within an economy using a sample of 90 developed and developing economies. We build upon Porter’s popular…

Susan Perkins, Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung – Innocents Abroad

We examine international joint ventures in the telecommunications industry in Brazil, where pyramidal groups are ubiquitous. We explain how corporate governance differences between pyramidal groups versus widely held freestanding firms…

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How Cultural Flexibility Fuels Entrepreneurship

While looser cultures offer fertile ground for entrepreneurship and innovation, tight cultures hold entrepreneurial potential that can be unlocked with strategic support.

Manufacturing in Developed Countries at a Crossroads: Regional Reshoring or Strategic Outsourcing?

Release date: August 29, 2024 Panelists: Prof. Ziliang Deng (Peking University), Prof. Han Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Prof. Peter Ping Li (CBS), and Prof. Nan Zhou (Tongji…

Innovating for the Grand Challenges: Debate on Voluntary Carbon Markets

Release date: September 4, 2024 Panelists: Florian Heeb, Andy King, Marco Montefiori, and Katherine Tatarinov Sponsor: The Global Strategy Interest Group Session Description: Climate change and the energy transition have…