Works
- Global competitive pressures and host country demands: managing tensions in MNCs, California Management Review 23(3), 63 to 74, 1981
- The Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision, Free Press, New York, 1987
- From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy, Harvard Business School Press, Boston (xii and 258 pages), 2001
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The integration-responsiveness framework and the metanational firm.
Ideas
Integration and responsiveness. With Prahalad, Doz framed global integration of activities and local responsiveness as the two essential demands on the multinational, set out on an integration-responsiveness grid. Caveat: Built on the authors' research on the companies they studied, and later critiqued formally by Devinney, Midgley, and Venaik (2000). Only passages of the book were read.
Metanational. With Santos and Williamson, a new kind of global company that senses and captures new knowledge worldwide, then applies it to out-innovate competitors. Caveat: Known only from a short summary; the book itself was not read.
Global pressures and host country demands. With Bartlett and Prahalad, examined the conflicts between global competitive pressures and host country demands facing multinational corporations, their administrative and organizational implications, and the adaptations several companies made, arguing for change on a broader basis than continual reorganization. Caveat: Read in its abstract only, so the companies and the analysis were not seen.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.