By George S. Yip

Multinational businesses have to deal with their relationships with multinational buyers with a globally built-in technique. This booklet offers a scientific framework for constructing and imposing such worldwide consumer administration courses. It attracts on in-depth learn at over 20 significant U.S. and eu multinational businesses, comparable to ABB, Bechtel, BP, Bosch, British airlines, Carrefour, Daimler-Chrysler, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, IBM, Schlumberger, Shell, Siemens, Tesco, Unilever, Vodafone, Wal-Mart, and Xerox. Readers will how you can В· take into consideration coping with worldwide buyers within the context in their total worldwide process В· improve potent worldwide client administration courses В· conquer limitations to implementation and luck В· construct higher relationships with very important buyers В· get the whole corporation to have interaction with dealing with international clients This booklet takes a strategic, overall enterprise, and never simply revenues method of coping with international clients. It additionally takes a purchaser in addition to a provider point of view. The publication presents tips on either process and implementation. Yip and Bink's handling worldwide clients takes a scientific and good judgment pushed procedure, but offers many inventive insights and sensible recommendation. Managing international Customers highlights the rewards of taking a step past worldwide account administration to create a world patron administration process, integrating globally all points of the connection among provider and consumer. The e-book offers a framework that courses overseas businesses in utilizing their relationships with worldwide shoppers to their complete strength. George Yip, writer of the widely-praised Total international Strategy, and Audrey Bink take on in-depth some of the most very important features of world method: tips to deal with worldwide consumers.

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19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. and Jean-Pierre Jeannet (2003) Global Account Management: Creating Value. New York: Wiley; and Nirmalya Kumar (2004) Marketing as Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, chapter 5. Arnold et al. (2001) and Birkinshaw et al. (2001). Montgomery and Yip (2000). Anton Fritschi (1999) ‘Global Key Account Management bei ABB: Erfolg Kennt Keine (Länder-) Grenzen’, Thexis, 4: 26–9. Faris Momani and Tobias Richter (1999) ‘Standardisation versus Differentiation in European Key Account Management: The Case of the Adidas-Salomon AG’, Thexis, 4: 44–7.

5. McKinsey & Company (1999) Managing International Retailers. London: McKinsey & Company. 6. David B. Montgomery and George S. Yip (2000) ‘The Challenge of Global Customer Management’, Marketing Management, 9(4): 22–9. 7. George S. Yip and Tammy L. Madsen (1996) ‘Global Account Management: The New Frontier in Relationship Marketing’, International Marketing Review, 13(3): 24– 42. 23 Foundation 8. Dean M. Peebles (1989) ‘Don’t Write Off Global Advertising: A Commentary’, International Marketing Review, 6(1): 73–8.

When this happens, the customer and supplier must strike the right balance of power in order to preserve their relationship. Too much dependence of the customer on the supplier is not sustainable, not only on the R&D level, but also on the human level. Negative feelings from the customer’s staff can sabotage all the benefits that a strong global relationship might bring. In one example, an energy company outsourced its basic R&D activities to its global supplier of engineering services. But this move triggered a negative effect on the motivation 40 Exploiting Globalization Drivers and Potential of the energy company’s staff when working with this supplier.

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