Product Description: The continuous search for efficiency gains and the goal of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage have steadily increased the volume of goods and services procured globally from third party vendors. In this context, named as “the next wave of globalization”, the offshoring phenomenon has stimulated research and political debates...read more

Product Description: The organizational design of the Multinational Corporation (MNC) was a vibrant area of research in the field of International Business and Management during the 1970-1990's. However, since then this research has largely faded from our scholarship...read more

Product Description: This volume concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with our current theoretical and methodological toolkit. This entails three specific queries about the past and present: Have our theories advanced some combination of explanation and prediction? Have our methods proven to be effective in providing rigorous, robust and consistent evidence with respect to the explanatory and predictive validity of our theories? Have we studied the right phenomena in the right way...read more

Product Description: "The design of an effective global value chain is a major challenge to company managers of today. Just think of the managerial difficulties in configuring the value chain so that shifting comparative advantages of developed and developing countries are utilized optimally - and at the same time making these geographically dispersed value chain activities work together in concerted action...read more

Product Description: This book contributes to the understanding of Knowledge Governance in the Multinational Corporation. Intra-firm and inter-firm processes of knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation have attracted increasingly managerial and scholarly interest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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In the development of the multinational corporation different subsidiaries have different roles, and some become 'Centres of Excellence' (COE) controlling resources on which other parts of the corporation depend. This work investigates COEs in different countries, examining why they emerge. (view table of contents)