This article provides an introduction to the topic of multinational management. Multinational management employs a set of principles, theories and models, forming a systematic framework for managing organizations in a global context. This introduction will provide an embarkation point so as to demystify …

Analyse van Chinees IT bedrijf Tencent uit Rien T. Segers (ed.), Multinational Management. A Casebook on Asia’s Global Market Leaders, to be published by Springer International Publishers, Heidelberg 2016.

This chapter examines current branding trends in significant Asian markets, namely Japan, South Korea, and India, with a special focus on one emerging branding nation, China. No generalizations towards the whole of Asia can be drawn from this research. However, research identified some aspects in the …

Panasonic’s nearly one hunderd-year history can be divided into several phases. The constant factor in Panasonic’s history was—and is—change. And this may also contain the simple answer to the question about Panasonic’s secret of success: the ability to transform as required by an ever-changing environment, …