The Dynamic American Firm

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2. Responding to a Changing World

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   2. U.S. Firms in Transition

      • Andrew Wilson

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3. External Shocks

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Regionalization versus Globalization of World Trade

      • Murray Weidenbaum

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   3. The U.S.-EU Relationship: Friends and Competitors

      • Murray Weidenbaum

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   4. Prospects for an Americas Free Trade Area

      • Robert A. Batterson

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   5. Japan’s Growing influence in Asia: Implications for U.S Business

      • Steven B. Schlossstein

      Pages 61-78

   6. Greater China: The Next Economic Superpower

      • Murray Weidenbaum

      Pages 79-87

   7. Capital Mobility: Challenges for Business and Government

      • Richard B. McKenzie, Dwight R. Lee

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4. Going Global

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Competing in a Global Marketplace

      • Harvey S. James Jr., Murray Weidenbaum

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   3. Business Responses to Foreign Government Barriers

      • Murray Weidenbaum, Harvey S. James Jr.

      Pages 123-135

   4. Patterns of Economic Globalization by U.S. Manufacturers

      • Harvey S. James Jr.

      Pages 137-147

5. Adjustment from Within

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   2. U.S. Firms Restructure and Revitalize

      • Andrew Wilson

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   3. American Manufacturers Respond to the Global Marketplace

      • Kenneth Chilton

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   4. The Crumbling of the Old Social Contract

      • Kenneth Chilton, Murray Weidenbaum

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   5. Fashioning a New Social Contract for the American Workplace

      • Kenneth Chilton, Murray Weidenbaum

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6. Whither the U.S. Film

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Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way.
The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.

• Change
• business
• development
• globalization
• joint venture
• management
• merger
• organization
• organizational change
• rating
• regionalization
• strategy

• Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

  Robert A. Batterson, Kenneth W. Chilton, Murray L. Weidenbaum

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