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Exam issues

There appear to be a large number of combinations of countries and management perspectives for this subject, so I'm going to mull through what we were taught in the lectures and work it out from there...

• Lecture 2 - Institutions (Could be used in any exam question for any country)

Theories:

North (1994)

DiMaggio and Powell

• Lecture 3 - National economy as Business System

Germany, Japan, USA, UK

Institution

Management Practice

Decentralisation

Theories:

Porter's diamond (competitive advantage of nations)

Redding (business systems)

• Lecture 4 - Economic history and multinational enterprises

US, Japan, Europe (France, UK, Germany)

Management transfer

US to Europe (Taylorism/M-form)

Japan to the US (Quality)

Theories:

Lazonick

Jones

Chandler (Scale and Scope)

Dunning

• Lecture 5 - National and organisational culture (Could be used in any exam question)

Denmark, Germany, Taiwan

Theories:

Hofstede

Hampden-Turner

• Lecture 6 - Transfers of management practice

USA, Europe, Japan

Theories:

Bjarnar and Kipping

Kogut, Bruce and Parkinson

Lillrank

• Lecture 7 - Corporate governance systems (Quite certain this will come up in the exam)

US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, US

Theories:

Coffee

Jones

• Lecture 8 - Cross-cultural management

UK, China

Theories:

Graham et al.

Ghauri et al.

Sergeant et al.

• Lecture 9 - Creating a market economy

China, Russia

Theories:

Estrin

Meyer

Michailova

• Lecture 10 - Management in changing environments

Scandanavia, Russia

Theories:

May

Meyer

Michailova