INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT ISSUES

International Management Issues

International Management Issues

Internationalization of business is a very cumbersome task, as it is not easy to manage international business. An organization willing to expand its operation internationally must assess a lot of things including language, economic and regulatory policies, and cultural aspects of the organization. It could face a host of issues, so it is important for the company to complete the ground work before expanding operations. If the company takes care of all the fundamental aspects, it can successfully run and manage the company internationally, as many multinationals are doing.

Key among the overlooked issues in many of the common approaches to diplomacy is identity. The process of managing identity issues in the course of political negotiation or intervention is central to the examination of the international and communicative processes involved in successful international conflict diplomacy. To underscore the importance of identity issues in conflict resolution as an interactive process one would scrutinize diplomatic actions, policies, and exchanges communicating some message that speaks to the relationship between the parties. These subtle messages take various forms and often involve issues of identity where one party's identity may be threatened or supported by another, or a party may be seeking to bolster its own identity in relationship to the other. An interaction ally-based approach requires examining elements of diplomatic behavior that concentrate on the dynamics of the relationships between parties (Carter, J, 1995).

For nearly a half-century following the end of World War 11, the Cold War waged on and on.with countries like Yugoslavia partitioned off from the rest of Europe and to some extent the world by the Soviet Iron Curtain. As the Cold War "thawed", and the pursuit of peace was blossoming in Europe, war and turmoil erupted in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. While some international parties sought to keep the nation whole, its rationalization became inevitable as hostilities spread from Slovenia to Croatia and finally Bosnia-Herzegovina—all ostensibly a result of the machinations of the regime in Serbia. The former Yugoslavia became the first 'failed state' in post-Cold War Europe, as it engulfed in an internal civil war rife with horrendous cruelty on all sides, including ethnic cleansing and genocide.

For years, the international community's efforts at intervention in this conflict were quite meager, most actions by the European Community, United States, Russia, the United Nations, and NATO were undertaken with only a minimum of dedication and resolve. Cease-fires and peace plans were procured and dissolved with some regularity until a final coordinated effort by multiple parties eventually brought the combatants to the table in Dayton, Ohio to negotiate a formal agreement to end the civil war (Gilboa, E, 2000).

Relational Order Theory (ROT) puts forward two concepts distinguishing the focal dimensions most notably associated with interpersonal communication and negotiation. The first dimension, power dependence, concentrate on the extent to which parties (attempt to) influence or control one another. This dimension can be further described by its two poles: power interdependence— when each party interfered with the goals ...