Trust Building and Boundary Spanning in Cross-Border Management -

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This edited book addresses two critical issues in international management: building trust and managing boundary spanning activities between international business partners. The duel-process of internationalization of multinational corporations (MNCs), through globalisation and regionalisation, has

Résumé :
Trust Building and Boundary Spanning in Cross-Border Management is dedicated to addressing these under-researched themes and contributing to the emerging streams of research in micro foundations and role-based organization theory. It illustrates the latest research on the topic and will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to trust research and international business and management and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of organizational behaviour and theory, strategic management, global strategy and strategic alliance....

Biographie:

Chapter 1

Introduction: Trust-building and Boundary-spanning in Cross-border Management

Michael Zhang

Part I Conceptual Development

Chapter 2

Trust and Distrust - The Microstructural Ties Connecting Cross-border Inter-partner Relationships

Michael Zhang

Chapter 3

Boundary Spanning in ISAs: A Trust Perspective

Michael Zhang and Paul Gooderham

Part II Trust building through boundary spanning

Chapter 4

Trust-building and Boundary-spanning in Global Collaborations

Thomas T?th and Anne-Marie S?derberg

Chapter 5

Personal Attachment of Boundary Spanners in ISAs: A Two-sided Coin

Franziska Engelhard and Robin Pesch

Chapter 6

Building Trust across International Boundaries: The Founder's Role in Consulting Firm's Early Development

Murray Taylor, Jarryd Daymond and James Willard

Chapter 7

Trust in Global Value Chains and the Role of Intermediaries

Alessandro Perri and Nancy Buchan

Part III Boundary Spanning from a trust perspective

Chapter 8

Micro-foundation Thinking in Alliance Learning: Role of Boundary Spanners' Theory of Mind

Xinlu Qiu and Sven Haugland

Chapter 9

Restoring Trust through Isomorphism at MFIs: Trustworthiness and Boundary Permeability

Robert Swalef and Michael Zhang

Chapter 10

Spanning the Boundary of Organisations: A Systematic Review of the Inter-Organisational Boundary Spanning Literature

Ryan Tang, Xinlu Qiu and Michael Zhang

Chapter 11

Concluding Summary: Linking Micro-structural Approach with Systems Theory

Michael Zhang