Interfirm Diversity in Global Alliances. (Executive Briefing)

The multiple factors that may lead to friction and premature, unintended termination of global alliances are discussed. Interfirm diversity encompasses the comparative differences between companies in certain attributes or dimensions that continually shape the pattern of interaction between them. Su...

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Published in:Business horizons 2001-11, Vol.44 (6), p.2
Main Author: Parkhe, Arvind
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alliances
Alliances (Government relations)
Analysis
Bibliographies
Bibliography
Business consultants
Consulting services
Corporate culture
Corporations
International aspects
Language and culture
Laws, regulations and rules
Management
Management consultants
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Multinational corporations
Sociolinguistics
Strategic management
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Summary:The multiple factors that may lead to friction and premature, unintended termination of global alliances are discussed. Interfirm diversity encompasses the comparative differences between companies in certain attributes or dimensions that continually shape the pattern of interaction between them. Success in the coming years will go to those companies that are able to break out of their own cultural, national, and corporate strait-jackets and embrace cross-cultural, cross-national, cross-organizational mindsets that promote effective handling of diversity as an integral, inescapable part of global alliances.
ISSN:0007-6813
1873-6068