Borderless Business

Clarence J. Mann is Professor and Chair of the International Management Program and Director of the Institute for Global Management at University of Maryland University College. With over twenty years of professional experience in management consulting and in corporate and international law practice, including serving as General Counsel of Sears Roebuck's International Operations, he was coeditor, with Klaus Götz, of The Development of Management Theory and Practice in the United States, a joint UMUC and Daimler/Chrysler research project.Klaus Götz is Professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Center for Human Resource Management. Prior to this appointment, he was manager of the Management-Konzepte Unit at Daimler/Chrysler in Stuttgart. He has published numerous articles and edited or contributed to several books in the field of human resource management and leadership development, and is coeditor, with Clarence J. Mann, of The Development of Management Theory and Practice in the United States, a joint UMUC and Daimler/Chrysler research project.

• \oreword Overview: Forces Shaping the Global Business Environment SECTION I. FOCUSING ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS Strategy in a Global Context Marketing across the World Managing Global Supply Networks Human Resources Development Strategy SECTION II. LEVERAGING THE ENVIRONMENT Trade and Government relations The Fragmented Legal Environment of Global Business Managing Country Risk SECTION III. ADDING ENTERPRISE VALUE Managing Knowledge in the Extended Enterprise International Accounting, Taxation, and Corporate Governance Road Map To Changing Financial Environment SECTION IV. MOBILIZING CREATIVITY AND COMMITMENT The Global Leader Cultivating Global Teams: Diversity Management Squared Toward the Transnationalization of Corporate Culture Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Conclusions: An Emerging Global Management Paradigm About the Editors and Contributors Index

"Mann and G^Dotz present 14 papers in which authors from varied branches of management studies explore the challenges of globalization, whether those challenges call for a shift in management thinking, and the particular competencies and skills needed to address such challenges. Individual chapters explore these questions from the perspectives of marketing; supply networks; human resources development; trade and government regulations; the business legal environment; risk management; knowledge management; accounting, taxation, and corporate governance; finances; diversity management; corporate culture; and ethics and corporate social responsibility." - Reference & Research Book News