Global Strategy,Competence-Building and Strategic Alliances

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Lei D. Slocum J. W. Jr. , “Global Strategic Alliances: Payoffs and Pitfalls,” Organizational Dynamics, 1 (1991): 44–62. See also Bettis R.A. Bradley S.P. Hamel G. , “Outsourcing and Industrial Decline,” Academy of Management Executive, 6 (February 1992): 7–22.

Jones K. K. Shill W. E. , “Allying for Advantage,” McKinsey Quarterly, 3 (1990): 85.

Stronach B. , Defining Nationalism in Contemporary Japan (Niigata, Japan: The International University of Japan Press, 1991).

See Harvard Business School Case #9-389-048, “General Electric: Consumer Electronics Group,” for a discussion of how the consumer electronics industry migrated from the U.S. to the Far East.

Fortune, “Japan's Robot King Wins Again,” May 25, 1987, pp. 53–57.

Badaracco J. L. Jr. , The Knowledge Link (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1991).

Reed R. DeFillippi R. J. , “Causal Ambiguity, Barriers to Imitation and Sustainable Competitive Advantage,” Academy of Management Review, 15 (1990): 88–102.

Badaracco , op. cit. See also Kahalas H. Suchon K. , “Interview with Harold A. Poling, Chairman, CEO, Ford Motor Company,” Academy of Management Executive, 6 (1992): 71–82.

Magaziner I.C. Patinkin M. , “Fast Heat: How Korea Won the Microwave War,” Harvard Business Review, 63 (January–February 1989): 83–93. See also “Korea's Tigers Keep Roaring,” Fortune, May 4, 1992, pp. 24–28.

Lewis J. D. , Partnerships for Profit: Structuring and Managing Strategic Alliances (New York, NY: Free Press, 1990); also Prahalad Hamel , op. cit.

Prahalad Hamel , op. cit.

McGill M. Slocum J.W. Jr. Lei D. , “Management Practices in Learning Organizations,” Organizational Dynamics, (Summer 1992): 5–17.

Harrigan K. , Strategies for Joint Ventures (Boston, MA: D. C. Heath, 1983). See also Goldenberg S. , Hands Across the Ocean (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1988).

Jones Shill , op. cit. Also, personal interview with Kevin Jones at McKinsey's Tokyo office, May 14, 1992.

“Coming's Class Act: How Jamie Houghton Reinvented the Company,” Business Week, May 13, 1991, pp. 68–72. See also “Partnerships Are a Way of Life for Corning,” Wall Street Journal, July 12, 1988, p. 6.

Jones K. , “Competing to Learn in Japan,” McKinsey Quarterly, 1 (1992): 45–57

Schuler R.S. , “Strategic Human Resources Management: Linking the People with the Strategic Needs of the Business,” Organizational Dynamics (Summer 1992): 18–32.

Jones K. Ohbora T. , “Managing the Heretical Company,” McKinsey Quarterly, 3 (1990): 20–45.

Ostroff F. Smith D. , “The Horizontal Organization,” McKinsey Quarterly, 1 (1992): 148–168. See also Snow C. C. Miles R. E. Coleman H. J. , “Managing 21st Century Network Organizations,” Organizational Dynamics (Winter 1992): 5–20.