Transforming International Organizations

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Twenty-eight recent articles and excerpts present differing views on organizational transformation, providing a framework for understanding and evaluating transformation of international organizations. Four sections examine the contextual environment that is driving the transformation of international organizations; a number of broad frameworks for describing and evaluating transformation; subsidiary- level perspectives; and models and studies dealing with specific aspects such as globalization of an ethnocentric firm, alternatives for managing headquarters, and the management of multinational R&D. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.