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Introduction:Adaptive corporate strategies in a turbulent world /Torben Juul Andersen --Multinational corporate strategy-making: integrating international business and strategic management /Torben Juul Andersen and Ulf Andersson --The implications of subsidiary autonomy for multinational flexibility /Victor Meins Pedersen and Sebastian Spon Kofod-Jensen --Democratizing the multinational corporation (MNC): interaction between intent at headquarters and autonomous subsidiary initiatives /Torben Juul Andersen and Carina Antronia Hallin --Internationalization effects in a global knowledge-based industry: a study of multinational pharmaceutical companies /Solveig Kirstine Bennike Bennedsen and Lærke Lissau Lund-Sørensen --Navigating a global corporate culture: on the notion of organizational culture in a multinational corporation /Michael Jakobsen, Verner Worm and Xin Li --Building a global responsive organization: the case of the Haier Group /Xinbo Sun, Yi Cao, Suxiu Li and Xin Li --Effective crisis and emergency responses in the multinational corporation /Carolina Acedo Darbonnens and Malgorzata Zurawska --Global catastrophic effects: the impact of terrorism /Jakob Lyngsø Jørgensen and Christoffer Breum Nielsen.

The responsive global organization can adapt business operations across multinational markets in response to unpredictable changes in the turbulent global marketplace. This book deals with different aspects of the effective multinational corporation (MNC) pointing to new ways in which the MNC can enhance responsiveness faced with increasing market turbulence. Drawing on contemporary research in strategy and international business, the book considers relevant aspects including subsidiary autonomy, individual and team engagement, local knowledge, knowledge-based innovation, dynamic integrative processes, cross-cultural management, crisis handling, and the impact of abrupt events. The diversity of multinational business provides many opportunities, but also distinct challenges that must be managed effectively. Here an interactive dynamic between headquarters and local business units is driving responsiveness and adaptive behaviors. Corporate headquarters must structure a multinational organization so adaptive initiatives exploit local market insights where opportunities evolve from autonomous responses around the world. This can entail crisis responses involving both local and corporate efforts as a robust way to handle unexpected incidents. Such interactive approaches constitute a combination of central integration and decentralized local responses as the basis for a dynamic adaptive system. To make this work in a multinational context, we must consider the intricate interplay between corporate values and local cultures, and understand how leadership philosophies influence how diverse employees act as team players and global corporate citizens. The book provides relevant insights on all these important issues.

The outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 has had significant effects on economic activity, unemployment, and public finances for all European countries. However, European economies do not form a homogenous region, and any serious analysis of macroeconomic imbalances in Europe must account for the fact that different economic and political models and circumstances operate across the continent. This book focuses on the Nordic countries which have a relatively good record of undertaking fiscal and structural reforms after their own financial and debt crises in the 1980s and 1990s.

Introduction -- Risk, risk management, and risk governance -- Risk, uncertainty, and proactive risk-taking -- Value based enterprise risk management practices -- Value creation through risk management -- The strategic risk-taking organization -- Postscript

"The project comprises an edited collection of contributions from key note speakers and selective academic presenters at the 6th International Risk Management Conference - IRMC 2013, which was hosted by the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. The IRMC 2013 conference brought together leading experts and professionals from various academic disciplines to discuss risk management under the general theme: Enduring Financial Stability: Contemporary Challenges for Risk Management and Governance. This theme reflected the cross-disciplinary perspective of the conference that as something quite unique and new welcomed papers from the fields of finance, economics and strategic management for fruitful exchanges. This particular conference introduced a special topic: Contemporary Risk Management Challenges - Managing Risk in an Unstable Environment to emphasize the important managerial aspects of the complex and multifaceted risk management challenge. This collection of articles, therefore, comprises contributions responding to this call for inquiry reintroducing central aspects of 'management' in risk management that hitherto have been somewhat overlooked or subdued. Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management focuses on two central aspects of the risk managing process, namely (1) how managers (can and do) assess developments in the external risk environment and deal with them, and (2) analysing the effects of risk management and different managerial approaches. The articles represent state of the art academic analyses and research contributions"--