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Week 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| integration-responsiveness framework | An MNE management framework for simultaneously dealing with the pressures for both global integration and local responsiveness. (p. 186) |
| local responsiveness | The need to be responsive to different customer preferences around the world. (p. 186) |
| home replication strategy | A strategy that emphasizes duplicating home-country-based competencies in foreign countries. |
| ocalization (multidomestic) strategy | A strategy that focuses on a number of foreign countries/regions, each of which is regarded as a standalone local (domestic) market worthy of significant attention and adaptation |
| 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. (p. 188) |
| 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 (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 (regional) manager | The business leader of a specific country (or a 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 transnational strategy. (p. 190) |
| 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 from another |
| knowledge management | The structures, processes, and systems that actively develop, leverage, and transfer knowledge. |
| explicit knowledge Knowledge that is codifiable (that is, can be written down and transferred with little loss of richness |