Question

Some international management experts contend that globalization and national responsiveness are dramatically opposed forces and that you accommodate one, a multinational must relax its efforts in the other. In what way is this an accurate statement? in what way is it incomplete or inaccurate?

Answer 1

International strategic management is the process of making strategies to achieve global corporate objectives and goals, and to compete with the world's competitors.

Implying one strategy say globalization might oppose the efforts to use national responsiveness strategy. This statement is correct in the sense that the company if the focus on both strategies it would not be possible to control the both at all as if the company go to handle one strategy the other would effect.

This statement is inaccurate or incomplete as a company can balance both the strategies (globalization or national responsiveness) simultaneously. The firm can use a transnational strategy that can help them to use both the strategies. These types of firm are considered in quadrant three of the matrix of using global or national responsiveness.