Corporate Strategies under International Terrorism and Adversity

Edited by Gabriele Suder, Pr. Fellow, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents:Preface1. IntroductionGabriele G.S. SuderPART I: THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS NETWORKS2. Social Network Theory and Methods as Tools for Helping Business Confront Global Terrorism: Capturing the Case and Contingencies Presented by Dark Social NetworksMason A. Carpenter and Alexander D. Stajkovic3. Speeding Up Strategic Foresight in a Dangerous and Complex World: A Complexity ApproachMax Boisot and Bill McKelvey4. National Security as a Socio/Computational ProcessMax Boisot and Bill McKelveyPART II: STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR5. Terror Incognito: International Business in an Era of Heightened Geopolitical RiskDavid A. Wernick6. Country Risk Spillovers in the Middle East: A Prelude to the Road Map for Peace and the War on TerrorIlan Alon and David L. McKee7. Terrorism and Financial ManagementRaj AggarwalPART III: CORPORATE MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE8. Location Decisions, Or: Modelling Operational Risk Management Under International TerrorismGabriele G.S. Suder9. Global Supply Chain Under Conditions of Uncertainty: Economic Impacts, Corporate Responses, Strategic LessonsJohn R. McIntyre and Eric Ford Travis10. Brand Portfolio: A New Marketing Competency for Diminishing Strategic RisksClaude Chailan and Luis Felipe Calderon-MoncloaPART IV: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE11. Corporate Global Citizenship: Successfully Partnering with the WorldNancy J. Adler12. Managing in an Era of TerrorismDavid Gillingham13. Always Consider Problems as OpportunitiesDavid A.C. Suder14. Concluding RemarksGabriele G.S. SuderIndex

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