WINTER 2003

School of Business Administration

Wayne State University 

MKT 7460 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

READING LIST

PROFESSOR ATTILA YAPRAK

 PART I: GLOBALIZATION, THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM, AND THE WORLD ECONOMY

 1.      Attila Yaprak and Hulya Tutek, Eds. Globalization, the Multinational Firm, and Emerging Economies (the JAI Press, 2000).

2.      George S. Yip, Total Global Strategy, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall, 2002).

3.      Michael E. Porter, “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”, Harvard Business Review 69, 2, 1990, 73-93.

4.      Tom Murtha, S. Lenway, and R. Bagozzi, “Global Mindsets and Cognitive Shifts in a Complex Multinational Corporation”, Strategic Management Journal, 19, 2, 1998, 97-114. 

5.      C.K. Prahalad and K. Lieberthal, “The End of Corporate Imperialism”, Harvard Business Review, 77, 4,1998, 69-79.

6.      Chris K. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, “What is a Global Manager?” Harvard Business Review, 70, 5, 1992, 124-132.

7.      K. Ohmae, “Managing in a Borderless World”, Harvard Business Review, 68, 3, 1989, 152-161.

8.      A. Fuat Firat, “Globalization and Fragmentation: A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Global Markets”, Journal of International Marketing, 5, 2, 1997, 77-86.

9.      Rajeev Batra, “Marketing Issues and Challenges in Transitional Economies”, Journal of International Marketing, 5, 4, 1997, 95-114.

10.  Jan Svejnar, “Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16, 1, 2002, 3-28.  

PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

1.      Business Week, “How to Reshape the World Financial System”, 10/12/1998.

2.      Business Week, “The New Economy: It Works in America, Will it Go Global”, 1/31/2000.

3.      Raymond Vernon, “Big Business and National Governments: Reshaping the Context in a Globalizing Economy”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 3, 2001, 509-518.

4.      L. Eden and S. Lenway, “Introduction to the Symposium on Multinationals: The Janus Face of Globalization”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 3, 2001, 383-400.   

PART III: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS THEORY 

1.          S. Tamer Cavusgil, “On the Internationalization Process of Firms”, European Research, 8, 6, Novermber, 1980, 273-281.

2.          J. H. Dunning, “Reappraising the Eclectic Paradigm in an Age of Alliance Capitalism”, Journal of International Business Studies, 1996, 461-481.

3.          Brian Toyne and D. Nigh, “A More Expansive View of International Business”, Journal of International Business Studies, 29, 4, 1998, 863-875.

4.          M. B. Sarkar and S.T.Cavusgil, “Trends in International Business Thought and Literature: A Review of International Market Entry Mode Research, an Integration and Synthesis”,The International Executive, 38, 6, 1996, 825-847.

5.          Peter J. Buckley and M. C. Casson, “Models of the Multinational Enterprise”, Journal of International Business Studies, 29, 1, 1998, 21-44.

6.          K. R. Conner and C. K. Prahalad, “A Resource Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge vs. Opportunism”, Organization Science, 7, 5, 1996, 477-501.  

PART IV: CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

1.      M. Kearney, “The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism”, Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 1995, 547-565.

2.      R. Robertson, “Globalization and Societal Modernization: A Note on Japan and Japanese Religion”, Sociological Analysis, 47, 1987, 35-42.

3.      R. W. Belk, “Materialism: Trait Aspects of Living in the Material World”, Journal of Consumer Research, 12, December, 1985, 265-280.

4.      R.W. Belk, “Possessions and the Extended Self”, Journal of Consumer Research, 15, September, 1988, 139-168.

5.      J. S. Osland and A. Bird, “Beyond Sophisticated Stereotyping: Cultural Sensemaking in Context”, Academy of Management Executive, 14, 1, 2000, 65-77.

6.      C. Nakata and K. Sivakumar, “Instituting the Marketing Concept in a Multinational Setting: The Role of National Culture”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 29, 3, 2001, 255-275.

7.      S. Sharma, T. A. Shimp, and J. Shin, “Consumer Ethnocentrism: A Test of Antecedents and Moderators”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 23, 1, 1995, 26-37.

8.      H. C. Triandis and M. J. Gelfand, “Converging Measurement of Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1, 1998, 118-128.

9.      D. Ralston, et. al., “The Impact of National Culture and Economic Ideology on Managerial Work Values: A Study of the US, Russia, Japan, and China”, Journal of International Business Studies, 27, 1, 1997, 177-207.

10.  G. Hofstede, “Organizing for Cultural Diversity”, European Management Journal, 7, 4, 1989, 390-397.

11.  H. R. Markus and S. Kitayama, “Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation”, Psychological Review, 98, 2, 1991, 224-253.

12.  R. Inglehart, Modernization, Postmodernizaton, and Cultural Change in 43 Societies, Princeton University Press, 1997.

13.  D. Kim, Y. Pan, and H. S. Park, “High vs. Low-Context Culture: A Comparison of Chinese, Korean, and American Cultures”, Psychology and Marketing, 15, 6, 1998, 507-521.

14.  J. Searle-White, The Psychology of Nationalism, Palmgrave Publications, 2001.

15.  G. Balabanis, et. al., “The Impact of Nationalism, Patriotism, and Internationalism on Consumer Ethnocentric Tendencies”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 1, 2001, 157-175.

16.  C. Baughn and Attila Yaprak, “Economic Nationalism: Conceptual and Empirical Development”, Journal of Political Psychology, 17, 4, 759-778.

17.  H. Cannon and A. Yaprak, “Will the Real World Citizen Please Stand Up: The Many Faces of Cosmopolitan Consumer Behavior”, Journal of International Marketing, 10, 4, 2002, 30-52.

18.  G. Ger, “Localizing in the Global Village: Local Firms Competing in Global Markets”, California Management Review, 41, 4, 1999, 64-83.

19.  C. J. Thompson and S. K. Tambyah, “Trying to Be Cosmopolitan”, Journal of Consumer Research, 26, December, 1999, 214-241.

20.  G. McCracken, “Culture and Consumption: A Theoretical Account of the Structure and Movement of the Cultural Meaning of Consumer Goods”, Journal of Consumer Research, 13, June, 1986, 71-84.

21.  D. K. Tse, R. W. Belk, and N. Zhou, “Becoming a Consumer Society: A Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Content Analysis of Print Ads from Hong Kong, the PRC, and Taiwan”, Journal of Consumer Research, 15, March, 1989, 457-472.

22.  S. H. Schwartz and W. Bilsky, “Toward a Theory of the Universal Content and Structure of Values: Extentions and Cross-Cultural Replications”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 5, 1990, 878-891.

23.  Oded Shenkar, “Cultural Distance Revisited: Towards a More Rigorous Conceptualization and Measurement of Cultural Differences”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 3, 2001, 519-535.

24.  K. Sivakumar and C. Nakata, “The Stampede Toward Hofstede’s Framework: Avoiding the Sample Design Pit in Cross-Cultural Research”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 3, 2001, 555-574.  

PART V: LEVERAGING WORLDWIDE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

1.          Geert Duysters and J. Hagedoorn, “Do Company Strategies and Structures Converge in Global Markets? Evidence from the Computer Industry”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 2, 2001, 347-356.

2.          J. Birkinshaw, O. Toulan and D. Arnold, “Global Account Management in Multinational Corporations: Theory and Evidence”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 2, 2001, 231-248.

3.          Jaideep Anand and A. Delios, “Location Specifity and the Transferability of Downstream Assets to Foreign Subsidiaries”, Journal of International Business Studies, 28, 3, 1997, 579-603.

4.          J. A. Clougherty, “Globalization and the Autonomy of Domestic Competition Policy: An Empirical Test on the World Airline Industry”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 3, 2001, 459-478.

5.          T. Herbert, “Strategy and Multinational Organization Structure: An Organizational Relationships Perspective”, Academy of Management Journal, 9, 2, 1984, 259-271.

6.          K. Roth and A. Morrison, “Implementing Global Strategy: Characteristics of Global Subsidiary Mandates”, Journal of International Business Studies, 23, 4, 1992, 1-13.  

PART VI: VALUE CHAIN INTERNATIONALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, COLLABORATION, AND NETWORKS 

1.      B. Gomes-Casseres, The Alliance Revolution: the New Shape of Business Rivalry, (Harvard University Press, 1996).

2.      A. Parkhe, “Interfirm Diversity, Organizational Learning, and Longevity in Strategic Alliances”, Journal of International Business Studies, 4th Quarter, 1991, 579-601.

3.      Andrew C. Inkpen, “Learning Through Joint Ventures: A Framework of Knowledge Acquisition”, Journal of Management Studies, 37, 7, 2000, 1019-1043.

4.      Tarun Khanna, R. Gulati and N. Nohria, “The Dynamics of Learning Alliances: Competition, Cooperation, and Relative Scope”, Strategic Management Journal, 19, 1998, 193-210.

5.      D. Blankenburg-Holm, K. Eriksson, and J. Johanson, “Creating Value Through Mutual Commitment to Business Network Relationships”, Strategic Management Journal, 20, 1999, 467-486.

6.      P. Kale, H. Singh, and H. Perlmutter, “Learning and Protection of Proprietary Assets in Strategic Alliances: Building Relational Capital”, Strategic Management Journal, 21, 2000, 217-237.

7.      M. B. Sarkar, R. Echambadi, S. T. Cavusgil, and P. S. Aulakh, “The Influence of Complementarity, Compatibility, and Relationship Capital on Alliance Performance”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 29, 4, 358-373.

8.      B. N. Anand and T. Khanna, “Do Firms Learn to Create Value? The Case of Alliances”, Strategic Management Journal, 21, 2000, 295-315.

9.      S. J. Bell, G. J, Whitwell, and B. A. Lukas, “Schools of Thought in Organizational Learning”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 30, 1, 70-86.

10.  T. K. Das and B. S. Teng, “A Resource Based View of Strategic Alliances”, Journal of Management, 26, 1, 2000, 31-61.

11.   B. Kogut, “The Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure”, Strategic Management Journal, 21, 2000, 405-425.  

PART VII: BUILDING, MANAGING, AND CONTROLLING THE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION 

1.      Susan P. Douglas and C.S. Craig, “Global Portfolio Planning and Market Interconnectedness”, Journal of International Marketing, 4, 1, 1996, 93-110.

2.      Yadong Luo, “Toward a Cooperative View of MNC-Host Government Relations: Building Blocks and Performance Implications”, Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 3, 2001, 401-419.