Anil K. Gupta & D. Eleanor Westney (editors), SMART GLOBALIZATION. Wiley, 2003.

Smart Globalization is a compendium of leading-edge thinking on global strategy first published in the acclaimed MIT Sloan Management Review. The central premise underlying this book is that globalization can be a double-edged sword. The global or globalizing firm has the potential to reap several types of benefits such as the vast potential of a much larger market arena, opportunities to capture scale- and location-based cost efficiencies, and exposure to a multiplicity of new product and process ideas. However, globalization also exposes the firm to numerous strategic and organizational challenges emanating from a dramatic increase in diversity, complexity, and uncertainty – external as well as internal to the firm. How managers address these challenges determines whether globalization yields competitive advantage or disadvantage and makes the company stronger or weaker. “Smart” globalization is the ability to capture the benefits and minimize the costs and risks.

Anil K. Gupta, Toshiro Walkayama, & U.Srinivasa Rangan (editors), GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR EMERGING ASIA. Wiley, 2012.

The multinational corporate guide for thriving in the Asian marketplace

Led by China and India, the rise of emerging Asia is transforming the structure of the global economy. By 2025, if not sooner, China will almost certainly overtake the U.S. to become the world’s largest economy. By then, India is likely to have overtaken Japan to become the world’s third largest economy, after China and the U.S. Besides China and India, Asia also includes other fast-growing economies such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Added together, by 2025, these developments are likely to make Asia’s economy larger than those of the U.S. and Europe combined.

It is clear that, for every large company, leadership in Asia is rapidly becoming critical for leadership globally. This important resource brings together the latest ideas and in-depth case analyses from leading academics and practitioners to provide a comprehensive guide to succeeding in Asia.

• Explores how to develop a strategy to benefit from new patterns of 21st century trade
• Explains how companies can fight and win against low-cost competition from Asian companies
• Shows how to transfer homegrown management practices to Asia
• Reveals how to safeguard the company’s intellectual property in China
• Brings to light how to leverage India as a platform to revitalize the company’s innovation capabilities

Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, & Haiyan Wang, THE QUEST FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE. Wiley, 2008.

The rapid emergence of a multipolar and highly integrated global economy is making globalization the single most important issue facing companies today. In this new era, virtually every industry is a global industry and every business a knowledge business.

Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang are among the most distinguished experts in the field of globalization. In The Quest for Global Dominance, they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and maintain its position as a globally dominant player, executives must ensure that their company leads its industry in the following four essential tasks:

• Identifying market opportunities worldwide and pursuing them by establishing the necessary presence in all key markets
• Converting global presence into global competitive advantage by identifying and developing the opportunities for value creation that global presence offers
• Cultivating a global mindset by viewing cultural and geographic diversity as an opportunity, not just a challenge
• Leveraging the rise of emerging markets – especially China and India – to transform the company’s growth prospects, global cost structure, and pace of innovation