HARVEY, Michael <br/><br/>
Development of `Timescapes` to effectively manage global inter-organizational relational communications 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> The globalization of business has resulted in the emergence of hyper-competition in many industries. Given the geographic, economic, and cultural  dispersion of markets, many organizations have developed network structures to increase their strategic flexibility and to preserve idiosyncratic assets. This reliance on inter-organizational  relationships has created an increased need to improve coordinating and communication among the members of the global network. The problems associated with effective inter-organizational communications are exarcerbated by the accelarating rate of change and time ... a `quickening`of events. Moreover, managers ar required to adapt to the eventful differences in time across national and organizational cultures. This paper develops the concept of `timescapes` to facilitate  effective inter-organizational and inte-cultural comminicatins. A managerial process for decision-making relative to global comunications is aso presented in the paper 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Timescape<br/>Globalization<br/>Inter-organizational Networks<br/>Global Communications