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The multinational firm and host arab society

The multinational firm and host arab society importance of line personnel, "the position of staff analysts preparing noneconomic environment assessments is often ambigu- ous. We found a number of instances of overt conflict between staff analysts and line managers in terms of the former repre- senting a 'threat' to the latter. It was also far from clear how the formal staff analyses were utilized by decision makers. Some sort of systematic methodology was used by 56% of the firms with country check lists (30%) and scenario development (26%) most widely used and quantitative methods employed by only 19%. However, even firms using these methodologies indi- cated that they did not rate them as particularly important. Of the elements analyzed, political stability, investment cli- mate and exchange controls were clearly most important, taxa- tion moderately important, and others like labor unrest dis- tinctly less prominent. The researchers found their impression of the difficulty of integrating assessments with the decision-making process con- firmed by the responses to a question on steps needed to im- prove the analysis function. The majority (58%) rated inte- gration as essential, a much smaller portion (31%) giving first importance to relating analysis to operational problems. The authors conclude that, while the assessment of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Thunderbird International Business Review Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1980 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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1096-4762
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1520-6874
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10.1002/tie.5060220305
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importance of line personnel, "the position of staff analysts preparing noneconomic environment assessments is often ambigu- ous. We found a number of instances of overt conflict between staff analysts and line managers in terms of the former repre- senting a 'threat' to the latter. It was also far from clear how the formal staff analyses were utilized by decision makers. Some sort of systematic methodology was used by 56% of the firms with country check lists (30%) and scenario development (26%) most widely used and quantitative methods employed by only 19%. However, even firms using these methodologies indi- cated that they did not rate them as particularly important. Of the elements analyzed, political stability, investment cli- mate and exchange controls were clearly most important, taxa- tion moderately important, and others like labor unrest dis- tinctly less prominent. The researchers found their impression of the difficulty of integrating assessments with the decision-making process con- firmed by the responses to a question on steps needed to im- prove the analysis function. The majority (58%) rated inte- gration as essential, a much smaller portion (31%) giving first importance to relating analysis to operational problems. The authors conclude that, while the assessment of

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Published: Sep 1, 1980

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