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INB 300 ch.12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Integration Responsiveness Framework | An MNE management framework for simultaneously dealing with the pressures for both global integration and local responsiveness. |
| Local Responsiveness | The need to be responsive to different customer preferences around the world. |
| Home Replication Strategy. | A strategy that emphasizes duplication home country based competencies in foreign countries. |
| Localization (or multi domestic) Strategy | A strategy that focuses on a number of foreign countries/ regions, each of which is regarded as a stand-alone local (domestic) market worth of significant attention and adaption. |
| Global Standardization Strategy | A strategy that relies on the development and distribution of standardized products worldwide to reap the maximum benefits from low-cost advantages. |
| Center of Excellence | An MNE subsidiary explicitly recognized as a source of important capabilities that can be leveraged by and/or disseminated to other subsidiaries. |
| Worldwide (or global) Mandate | A charter to be responsible for one MNE function throughout the world. |
| Transnational Strategy | A strategy that endeavors to be simultaneously cost efficient, locally responsive, and learning driven around the world. |
| International Division | An organizational structure that is typically set up when a firm initially expands abroad, often engaging in a home replication strategy. |
| Geographic Area Structure | An organizational structure that organizes the mNE according to different countries and regions. |
| Country (or regional) Manager | The business leader of a specific country (or geographic region). |
| Global Product Division Structure | An organizational structure that assigns global responsibilities to each product division. |
| Global Matrix | An organizational structure often used to alleviate the disadvantages associated with both geographic area and global product division structures, particularly when adopting a transactional strategy. |
| Subsidiary Initiative | The proactive and deliberate pursuit of new opportunities by a subsidiary to expand its scope of responsibility. |
| Organizational Culture | The collective programming of the mind that distinguishes members of one organization form another. |
| Knowledge Management | The structures, processes, and systems that actively develop, leverage, and transfer knowledge. |
| Explicit Knowledge | Knowledge that is modifiable (that is, can be written down and transferred with little loss of richness). |
| Tacit Knowledge | Knowledge that is non-codifiable, whose acquisition and transfer require hands-on practice. |