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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIPLOMACY: HOW CAN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DEAL WITH GLOBAL CHALLENGES?

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ADVANCED SERIES IN MANAGEMENT

Previous Volumes:

• Shared Services as a New Organizational Form

• ED. TANYA BONDAROUK

• Social Media in Human Resources Management

• EDS. TANYA BONDAROUK AND MIGUEL R. OLIVAS-LUJÁN

• Social Media in Strategic Management

• EDS. MIGUEL R. OLIVAS-LUJÁN AND TANYA BONDAROUK

• (Dis)honesty in Management: Manifestations and Consequences

• EDS. TIIA VISSAK AND MAAJA VADI

• Commercial Diplomacy and International Business: A Conceptual and Empirical Exploration

• EDS. H. RUËL

• Electronic HRM in Theory and Practice

• EDS. T. BONDAROUK, H. RUËL AND J. C. LOOISE

• Relational Practices, Participative Organizing

• EDS. CHRIS STEYAERT AND BART VAN LOOY

• Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice

• EDS. RODRIGO MAGALHAES AND RON SANCHEZ

• Organizations as Learning Systems “Living Composition” as an Enabling Infrastructure

• ED. MARJATTA MAULA

• Complex Systems and Evolutionary Perspectives on Organizations: The Application of Complexity Theory to Organizations

• ED. EVE MITLETON-KELLY

• Managing Imaginary Organizations: A New Perspective on Business

• EDS. BO HEDBERG, PHILIPPE BAUMARD AND A. YAKHLEF

• Systems Perspectives on Resources, Capabilities and Management Processes

• EDS. JOHN MORECROFT, RON SANCHEZ AND AIMÉ HEENE

• Tracks and Frames: The Economy of Symbolic Forms in Organizations

• ED. K. SKOLDBERG

• Human Resource Management, Social Innovation and Technology

• EDS.TANYA BONDAROUK AND MIGUEL R. OLIVAS-LUJÁN

• Dead Firms: Causes and Effects of Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency

• EDS. MIGUEL M. TORRES, VIRGINIA CATHRO AND MARIA ALEJANDRA GONZALEZ PEREZ

• New Ways of Working Practices: Antecedents and Outcomes

• ED. JAN DE LEEDE

• Age Diversity in the Workplace: An Organizational Perspective

• EDS. SILVIA PROFILI, ALESSIA SAMMARRA AND LAURA INNOCENTI

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIPLOMACY: HOW CAN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS DEAL WITH GLOBAL CHALLENGES?

EDITED BY

HUUB RUËL

Hotelschool The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedications

This volume is dedicated to Hawar Hamad.

Hawar Hamad passed away in … October 2016 at the age of 28.

He was an amazing young professional and a very dedicated project coordinator for this volume.

Without his help this volume would not have been finished.

Thank you for your work and for your friendship. A terrific personality as you were will be missed in the world of today and the future.

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