Trust building and boundary spanning in cross-border management

This edited book addresses two critical issues in international management: building trust and managing boundary spanning activities between international business partners.

The duel-process of internationalisation of multinational corporations (MNCs), through globalisation and regionalisation, has helped MNCs to increase their market expansion and improve the capabilities of innovation and learning.

By simultaneously creating cross-border strategic alliances, MNCs have become structurally more complex and geographically more dispersed.

As a result, MNCs in general and international strategic alliances (ISAs) face the challenges of discerning blurred organisational boundaries, reconfiguring the control mechanisms, integrating diversified resources and coordinating distributed activities in time and space.