Global Competitive Pressures and Host Country Demands Managing Tensions in MNCs

See Doz Yves L. Prahalad C. K. , “How MNCs Cope with Host Government Demands,” Harvard Business Review, Vol 58, No. 2 (March-April 1980), pp. 149–160; also Doz Yves L. , “Strategic Management in Multinational Companies,” Sloan Management Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter 1980), pp. 27–46.

See Bartlett Christopher A. , “Multinational Structural Evolution” (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard Business School, 1979); Doz Yves L. , Multinational Strategic Management: Economic and Political Imperatives (forthcoming), and Weichmann Ulrich , Marketing Management in Multinational Firms (New York: Praeger, 1978).

See Argyris Chris Schon Donald A. , Organizational Learning: A Throey of Action Perspective (Reading, MA; Addison Wesley, 1978).

Bartlett Christopher A. , “Multinational Structural Change: Evolution versus Reorganization,” in Otterbech Lars (ed.), The Management of Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations (Farnborough, England: Gower, 1981). Relationships in Multinational Corporations (Farnborough, England: Gower, 1981).

Yves L Doz , Government Control and Multinational Strategic Management: Power Systems and Telecommunication Equipment (New York: Praegar, 1979), pp. 116–119.

Dyas Gareth P. , “Strategy and Structure at ITT” (INSEAD mimeo, 1979).

For a detailed description of Ericsson LM Boveri Brown , see Doz , Government Control. Data on the pharmaceutical and health products companies mentioned in the article can be found in Bartlett, “Multinational Structural Evolution.”

See Katz Abraham , “Planning in the IBM Corporation.” paper presented at the TIMS-ORSA Special Interest Conference on Strategic Planning. New Orleans, 1977.

We have discussed these administrative systems, and their purposive use in defining and implementing strategies extensively elsewhere. See Prahalad C. K. , “Strategic Choices in Diversified MNC's, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 54, No. 4 (July-August 1976), pp. 67; Doz Yves L. , Multinational Strategic Management: Economic and Political Imperatives (forthcoming), Chapters 9–12; Doz Yves L. Prahalad C.K. , “Headquarter Control and Strategic Change in Multinational Corporations,” in Otterbech , op. cit.