Danish management has followed a specific recipe, which enabled the national and international part of the organisation to exist side by side. Now the time is ripe for managers with a distinct national tradition of management to tackle some of their most ingrained assumptions about the international superiority of their management model. Managers can get better at recognizing these biases, at challenging them and at basing their decisions on what actually works in an international context. The book reflects on these issues through case studies of organization and management of international activities in Danish-based firms.
Chapter 1. Preparing for the Unexpected: Design of the Future Global Enterprise by Poul Houman Andersen and Jakob Lauring Chapter 2. Open-minded or Self-sufficient? Challenges of Exporting the Danish Management Style to Foreign Business Units by Anders Klitmoller, Jakob Lauring and Annamaria Kubovcikova Chapter 3. Being Close at a Distance: Exploring Technological, Temporal, and Linguistic Challenges to Global Virtual Team Effectiveness by Rikke Lindekilde and Anders Klitmoller Chapter 4. Parent Company Arrogance: Perceptions and Consequences by Jakob Lauring, Poul Houman Andersen, Hanne Kragh and Marianne Storgaard Chapter 5. Retention of Highly Skilled Expatriates and the Danish Work-life Balance by Jan Normann and Toke Bjerregaard Chapter 6. "Flexpatriation": A View from the Engine Room of Sub-Suppliers in the Maritime Sector by Mona Toft Madsen and Morten Rask Chapter 7. Translating Private Equity in Denmark: The Impact of the TDC Buy-out on the Danish Private Equity Industry by Robson Rocha and Duncan Wigan Chapter 8. Managing Strategic Transition in an Age of Accelerating Globalization by Poul Houman Andersen and Hanne Kragh Chapter 9. Collaboration in the Dynamic Organizing of Global Business Networks: CSR in Commons, Protocols, and Infrastructures by Mai S. Linneberg and Poul Houman Andersen Chapter 10. Sourcing Intermediary Profiles in the Global Clothing Industry by Chris Ellegaard and Mette Vedel Chapter 11. Models of International Entrepreneur-ship by Morten Rask and Per Servais Chapter 12. Preparing for the Unexpected: Some Tentative Answers by Hanne Kragh, Poul Houman Andersen and Jakob Lauring Author Biographies, List of Figures and List of Tables Subject index