Christopher Bartlett
Title: Professor Emeritus Christopher A. Bartlett
Full Name: Christopher A. Bartlett
Birthdate: 1943
Birthplace: Australia
Occupation: Organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Profile: Best known for
Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal).
Website: http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=6419
Number of Quotes: 11
Balancing global integration and local responsiveness is the defining challenge of transnational corporations.
Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution
Beyond strategy to purpose.
Harvard Business Review (1994).
Building a matrix organization is less about structure and more about fostering a matrix of mindsets.
On shifting from rigid hierarchies to flexible, collaborative organizational cultures.
Building Competitive Advantage Through People.
MIT Sloan Management Review (2002).
Effective global leaders act as social architects,
creating contexts where innovation and learning flourish.
From his research on leadership in decentralized organizations.
Innovation in multinationals thrives when subsidiaries are empowered as centers of excellence, not just operational satellites.
Advocating for decentralized innovation hubs within global firms.
The multinational corporation as an interorganizational network.
Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution
The role of headquarters is not to control, but to cultivate capabilities and coordinate knowledge flows.
A critique of traditional top-down management in global corporations.
Transnational strategy requires relinquishing the myth of central omnipotence and embracing distributed leadership.
From his critiques of centralized decision-making.
Ultimately, the job of the manager is to get ordinary people to create extraordinary results.
We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution
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