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Operations
Issues
Organizational
HR
Coordination
Communication and Knowledge
management
Organizational
Structure
Matrix?
Flexible?
Policies
Control
Ownership
HO vs. Local
Staffing
Philosophies for
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Global Operations
Firms using an ethnocentric staffing
approach fill key managerial positions
with people from headquarters that is,
parent-country nationals (PCNs).
In a polycentric staffing approach, local
managers host-country managers
(HCNs) are hired to fill key positions in
their own country.
Problems with
Selection based on headquarters
Expatriation
Problems with
Expatriation
Problems with spouse and children
poor adaptation, family unhappiness
Insufficient compensation and financial
support
Poor programs for career support and
repatriation
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
Process
Transfer: managing the flow of existing
knowledge between parents and from the
parents to the IJV
Transformation: managing the
transformation and creation of knowledge
within the organization through its
independent activities
Harvest: Managing the flow of transformed
and newly created knowledge from the IJV
back to the parents
Knowledge Management
Process