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Corporate Strategies under International Terrorism and Adversity
Corporate Strategies under International Terrorism and Adversity raises key issues facing international business and management in an era of global uncertainty.
Gabriele Suder’s second edited book about the security-business nexus analyses and evaluates the main strategic and operational responses to global commerce and management. The contributors explore the complexities and linkages of firms, industries, organizational structures, international relations, markets and terrorism networks. They investigate these networks and offer insight into the strategic behavior of international firms.
Gabriele Suder’s second edited book about the security-business nexus analyses and evaluates the main strategic and operational responses to global commerce and management. The contributors explore the complexities and linkages of firms, industries, organizational structures, international relations, markets and terrorism networks. They investigate these networks and offer insight into the strategic behavior of international firms.
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Contributors
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Corporate Strategies under International Terrorism and Adversity raises key issues facing international business and management in an era of global uncertainty.
Gabriele Suder’s second edited book about the security-business nexus analyses and evaluates the main strategic and operational responses to global commerce and management. The contributors explore the complexities and linkages of firms, industries, organizational structures, international relations, markets and terrorism networks. They investigate these networks and offer insight into the strategic behavior of international firms. The authors likewise examine corporate management and performance issues that encompass internationalization and location decisions, global supply chain management and brand portfolio challenges. The book concludes by outlining future challenges and with a discussion of the crucial issues that remain open and that will be shaped by the geopolitical context and the way business adapts its corporate strategies.
Designed to offer key tools for risk assessment and management in this field, this important book will be invaluable to risk strategists, CEOs of international firms, credit risk analysts and academics with an interest in international business and/or risk management.
Gabriele Suder’s second edited book about the security-business nexus analyses and evaluates the main strategic and operational responses to global commerce and management. The contributors explore the complexities and linkages of firms, industries, organizational structures, international relations, markets and terrorism networks. They investigate these networks and offer insight into the strategic behavior of international firms. The authors likewise examine corporate management and performance issues that encompass internationalization and location decisions, global supply chain management and brand portfolio challenges. The book concludes by outlining future challenges and with a discussion of the crucial issues that remain open and that will be shaped by the geopolitical context and the way business adapts its corporate strategies.
Designed to offer key tools for risk assessment and management in this field, this important book will be invaluable to risk strategists, CEOs of international firms, credit risk analysts and academics with an interest in international business and/or risk management.
Critical Acclaim
‘The true nature of the threat remains poorly understood, and previously little research has been done on it. This book is an important contribution for concerned practitioners and scholars.’
– Yves Doz, INSEAD, France
– Yves Doz, INSEAD, France
Contributors
Contributors: N.J. Adler, R. Aggarwal, I. Alon, M. Boisot, M.A. Carpenter, C. Chailan, L.F. Calderon-Moncloa, D. Gillingham, J.R. McIntyre, D.L. McKee, B. McKelvey, A.D. Stajkovic, D.A.C. Suder, G.G.S. Suder, E.F. Travis, D.A. Wernick
Contents
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
Gabriele G.S. Suder
PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS NETWORKS
2. Social Network Theory and Methods as Tools for Helping Business Confront Global Terrorism: Capturing the Case and Contingencies Presented by Dark Social Networks
Mason A. Carpenter and Alexander D. Stajkovic
3. Speeding Up Strategic Foresight in a Dangerous and Complex World: A Complexity Approach
Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey
4. National Security as a Socio/Computational Process
Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey
PART II: STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR
5. Terror Incognito: International Business in an Era of Heightened Geopolitical Risk
David A. Wernick
6. Country Risk Spillovers in the Middle East: A Prelude to the Road Map for Peace and the War on Terror
Ilan Alon and David L. McKee
7. Terrorism and Financial Management
Raj Aggarwal
PART III: CORPORATE MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
8. Location Decisions, Or: Modelling Operational Risk Management Under International Terrorism
Gabriele G.S. Suder
9. Global Supply Chain Under Conditions of Uncertainty: Economic Impacts, Corporate Responses, Strategic Lessons
John R. McIntyre and Eric Ford Travis
10. Brand Portfolio: A New Marketing Competency for Diminishing Strategic Risks
Claude Chailan and Luis Felipe Calderon-Moncloa
PART IV: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
11. Corporate Global Citizenship: Successfully Partnering with the World
Nancy J. Adler
12. Managing in an Era of Terrorism
David Gillingham
13. Always Consider Problems as Opportunities
David A.C. Suder
14. Concluding Remarks
Gabriele G.S. Suder
Index
Preface
1. Introduction
Gabriele G.S. Suder
PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS NETWORKS
2. Social Network Theory and Methods as Tools for Helping Business Confront Global Terrorism: Capturing the Case and Contingencies Presented by Dark Social Networks
Mason A. Carpenter and Alexander D. Stajkovic
3. Speeding Up Strategic Foresight in a Dangerous and Complex World: A Complexity Approach
Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey
4. National Security as a Socio/Computational Process
Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey
PART II: STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR
5. Terror Incognito: International Business in an Era of Heightened Geopolitical Risk
David A. Wernick
6. Country Risk Spillovers in the Middle East: A Prelude to the Road Map for Peace and the War on Terror
Ilan Alon and David L. McKee
7. Terrorism and Financial Management
Raj Aggarwal
PART III: CORPORATE MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
8. Location Decisions, Or: Modelling Operational Risk Management Under International Terrorism
Gabriele G.S. Suder
9. Global Supply Chain Under Conditions of Uncertainty: Economic Impacts, Corporate Responses, Strategic Lessons
John R. McIntyre and Eric Ford Travis
10. Brand Portfolio: A New Marketing Competency for Diminishing Strategic Risks
Claude Chailan and Luis Felipe Calderon-Moncloa
PART IV: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
11. Corporate Global Citizenship: Successfully Partnering with the World
Nancy J. Adler
12. Managing in an Era of Terrorism
David Gillingham
13. Always Consider Problems as Opportunities
David A.C. Suder
14. Concluding Remarks
Gabriele G.S. Suder
Index
