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MAN 4633
Assignment 6
Read chapters 5 and 6 of the text and review the grading guide (especially regarding how content is
graded) and grading key (regarding professional looking work, clarity, completeness, and content)
before answering the following questions:
Part I from chapter 5, Creating Worldwide Innovation and Learning: Exploring Cross‐Border Knowledge
Management:
1. Define arbitrage factor costs.
2. “Today’s challenge is to build transnational organizations that can sense an emerging consumer
trend in one country, link it to a new technology or capability it has in another, develop a creative
new product or service in a third, then diffuse that innovation rapidly around the world”. With
this in mind, identify a company who has demonstrated this ability including a brief description of
each step they took. (see pages 408 and 409 as a starting point)
3. Describe the center‐for‐global innovation model.
4. Describe the local‐for‐local innovation model.
5. From what you have learned from your Team Term Project, how would you describe what Zara is
doing in terms of the models in 3 and 4 above?
6. Define the center‐for‐global process. (page 410)
7. Discuss how Matsushita makes central innovation effective. (see pages 410 to 413)
8. What are the two requirements that must be met to create an effective interdependent
organization? Explain each. (see pages 415 and 416)
9. List and explain the three flows that managers need to develop a coordination system. (see pages
416 and 417)
Part II From Chapter 6 Engaging in Cross‐Border Collaboration: Managing across Corporate Boundaries:
1. What factors triggered the shift to collaborative strategic perspective? Name one example that
you can find that exemplifies each and describe what they did and why they needed to do it.
(see pages 510‐511)
2. List and explain the five key motivators for strategic alliance formation. (see pages 512‐515)
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