<i>'. . . this is a volume that will be welcomed by advanced international business students and scholars. It provides greater international access to a significant body of research dealing with networks with MNEs and the links to knowledge management.'</i>

- John Stanton, Global Business and Economics Review,

<i>'This scholarly volume contains a range of original and well documented insights into the changing organisational characteristics of MNEs, and particularly, the increasingly important role of foreign affiliates as knowledge augmenting and disseminating entities. A great deal of new empirical evidence - both at a country and firm level - is assembled and analysed, and several new areas of research are identified. Altogether, the monograph is an essential read for all international business scholars.'</i>

- John Dunning, University of Reading, UK and Rutgers University, US,

<i>'The material in this book is required reading for a broad audience of scholars in international business, organization, management and international economics. It covers a wide range of related subjects from inter-firm networks, alliances, multinational enterprise strategies to knowledge creation and technology transfer. <i>Network Knowledge in International Business</i> not only provides an extremely interesting overview of many contributions to the current work on networks, knowledge and international business strategies, it also influences the long-term research agenda of major topics in the international business literature.'</i>

- John Hagedoorn, Maastricht University and MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands,

This book focuses on current cutting-edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm. It combines contributions from three major related areas of inquiry: the changing theoretical conception of networks and the structure of the multinational firm, the importance of spillovers and agglomeration economies related to multinational investments, and the management of the flow of information and knowledge from headquarters to subsidiaries and vice versa.

The book approaches the network structure of the firm from the different perspectives of the expert international contributors, while also combining theoretical perspectives with recent empirical evidence.

Network Knowledge in International Business offers students in international business and strategy a cross-section of relevant research and current empirical evidence relating to knowledge management and the management of the modern multinational.

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This book focuses on current cutting-edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm.
Contents Preface 1 Introduction Sarianna M. Lundan 2 From value chain to value networks: towards a new strategic model Xavier Lecocq, Saïd Yami 3 Strategic knowledge management: a new research agenda Bo Bernhard Nielsen 4 The MNC as a network: a closer look at intra-organizational flows Stefan Schmid, Andreas Schurig, Michael Kutschker 5 On the dynamics and coexistence of multiple subsidiary roles: an investigation of multinational operations in the UK Robert D. Pearce, Ana Teresa Tavares 6 Sources of subsidiary knowledge and knowledge transfer in MNCs Nicolai J. Foss, Torben Pedersen 7 Subsidiary absorptive capacity, MNC headquarters’ control strategies and transfer of subsidiary competencies Ulf Andersson, Ingmar Björkman, Patrick Furu 8 Subsidiary decision-making autonomy: competences, integration and local responsiveness Vitor Corado Simões, Rita Biscaya, Pedro Nevado 9 Patterns of R&D co-operation by European firms: cost-economizing vs. technology-seeking Luis Miotti, Frédérique Sachwald 10 Competence accumulation and collaborative ventures: evidence from the largest European electronics firms and implications for EU technological policies Marco Giarratana, Salvatore Torrisi 11 Exploring inward-outward linkages in firms’ internationalization: a knowledge and network perspective Lawrence S. Welch, Gabriel R.G. Benito, Pål R. Silseth, Tore Karlsen 12 Accelerated internationalization from the periphery John A. Mathews 13 The corporate supplier network within the European personal computer industry Denise Tsang Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781840648706
Publisert
2002-07-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304

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Biographical note

Edited by Sarianna M. Lundan, Chair in International Management and Governance, University of Bremen, Germany