Park / Ungson / Zhou Rough Diamonds

The Four Traits of Successful Breakout Firms in BRIC Countries
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-58951-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Discover the four traits of the best performing, but leastknown, breakout firms in BRIC countries
"Rough diamonds" are the best performing firms in the BRIC(Brazil-Russia-India-China) countries. These firms comparefavorably with the top 500 firms and the top 25 manufacturing firmsin their countries and comparable firms worldwide, exceeding themprofit margins and return on assets over an extended time period.This book outlines who these firms are and explains their exemplaryperformance through the Four Cs for Sustaining High Performance:Capitalizing on late development; Creating Market Inclusive Niches;Crafting Operational Excellence; and Cultivating ProfitableGrowth.
* Offers a description of the four major traits that highperformance companies in Brazil, Russia, India and China have incommon
* Contains company profiles from BRIC countries that have provedto be successful
* Written Sam Park the president at Skolkovo-Ernst & Youngfor Emerging Market Studies and Chair Professor of Strategy atMoscow School of Management Skolkovo
This important resource outlines the four traits of the bestperforming, but least known, breakout firms in BRIC countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Park, Seung Ho

Ungson, Gerardo R.

Zhou, Nan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vii
John Quelch
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
1 AN OVERVIEW 1
2 THE FOUR Cs OF HIGH PERFORMANCE 21
3 CAPITALIZING ON LATE DEVELOPMENT 31
4 CREATING INCLUSIVE MARKET SEGMENTS AND NICHES 47
5 CRAFTING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE 65
6 CULTIVATING PROFITABLE GROWTH 87
7 HOW ROUGH DIAMONDS AVOID THE GROWTH FETISH 109
8 HYPERGROWTH: CAN IT BE SUSTAINED? 133
9 NATIONAL DIFFERENCES: A TALE OF FOUR COUNTRIES 149
10 RESPONDING TO ROUGH DIAMONDS: IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 167
Appendix: Methodology 181
Notes 199
The Authors 205
Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

Seung Ho Park is executive director at Skolkovo BusinessSchool-Ernst & Young Institute for Emerging MarketStudies (IEMS) and Chair Professor of Strategy at Moscow School ofManagement SKOLKOVO. He was the founding president of SamsungEconomic Research Institute in China and the BAT Chair Professor atthe China Europe International Business School.
Nan Zhou is research fellow at IEMS and assistantprofessor at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.
Gerardo R. Ungson is the Y. F. Chang Endowed ChairProfessor of International Business at the College of Business, SanFrancisco State University, and a Non-Resident Senior ResearchFellow at IEMS.