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What's Driving the Knowledge Economy ?
Try this for power breakfast food: Yves Doz's presentation to the Singapore CEO breakfast meeting last fall laid out the paradoxical forces driving the knowledge economy.  In Part One, Doz shows that while the "cost of distance" is falling (ideas and information move further and faster than ever), the knowledge needed to create value is increasingly dispersed.  In Part Two, he breaks down the factors that are turning places like Bangalore and Helsinki into knowledge hubs.  Silicon Valley, you've got company.  


Read the First Chapter - Free!

In Acrobat Reader® format, click here for the first chapter of From Global to Metanational, a book that Christopher Bartlett of Harvard Business School says "will change the thinking of executives and scholars alike."

Meet the Metanational World
If metanationals are emerging as competitors to traditional multinational companies, it's because the global business environment is changing. For a start, there are six potent reasons that the knowledge and resources that global companies need to compete are becoming increasingly dispersed around the world. We've put them into a handy Acrobat Reader® file for you to download. 

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Cementing the Deal: How a Western Company Leaves its Mark on Asia
Imagine idle construction cranes, arms in mid-air looming over half-finished buildings. Skylines across South East Asia looked that way after the 1997 currency crisis stalled the once-booming building activity in the region. As the local cement manufacturing companies looked for a way out of the spiral of debt, plummeting prices and over capacity that subsequently engulfed them, the globalising Western cement giants decided it was the perfect time to make their move into markets they had long coveted. Professor Peter Williamson and Charlotte Butler present a trio of case studies that illustrate three different perspectives of the situation. Click here.