Henry: Understanding Strategic Management
Chapter 09
The following list of books, journals, films, TV programmes and web links are especially recommended as resources you may find helpful for further study on the subject of 'International Strategy and Globalization'
Scholte, J (2005) Globalization: a critical introduction, Palgrave-MacMillan, (Chapter 1).
This chapter provides an introduction to a review of the effects of globalization on society.
Grant, R (2008) Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Blackwell (Chapter 14).
This chapter provides a good overview of international strategy.
Nina Jacob (2005), ‘Cross-cultural investigations: emerging concepts’, Journal of Organizational Change Management; 18(5).
Nina Jacobs provides a useful literature review of the contributions of Hofstede and Trompenaars, the two key writers in the field of cross cultural understanding.
Steger, M (2003), Globalization. A very short introduction, Oxford University Press.
It really is a very short book. An excellent academic introduction to the topic.
Bartlett, C and Ghoshal, S (2003), ‘What is a global manager’, Harvard Business Review, 81(8).
The authors argue that effective global management requires three types of skill.


