Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage: An Introduction -- Part I: Globalization: Should You Do It? -- 2. How Small Firms Can Achieve Competitive Advantage in an Interdependent World -- Part II: Changing Your Mind-Set, Changing Your Strategy -- 3. What It Takes to Become a Globally Oriented Corporation -- 4. Understanding Internationalization: Sense-Making Processes in Multinational Corporations -- Part III: The Environment of Global Markets -- 5. The Accessibility of International Financial Markets -- 6. Accounting Aspects of Globalizing American Firms -- 7. United States Trade Laws as Barriers to Globalization -- 8. Negotiating the Initial Phases of Cross-Cultural Alliances -- Part IV: Practical Applications -- 9. The Transfer of Production Planning and Control Systems from Plants in the United States to Other Parts of the World -- 10. Buyer-Supplier Coordination in the United States and Japanese Automobile Industries -- 11. Strategic Human Resource Management in Mexican Maquiladoras: The Competitive Edge -- 12. Small and Midsize Enterprises in the United States and East-Central Europe: Common Challenges in the 1990s -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.