Multinational Corporate Evolution and Subsidiary Development

✍ Scribed by Julian Birkinshaw, Neil Hood (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is one of the first to specifically address the subsidiary development process - a phenomenon by which multinational company subsidiaries enhance their resources and capabilities. It shows how this process is integral to multinational corporate evolution, which is largely driven by changes in subsidiaries and their development. It also illustrates how the recent trend towards greater international dispersal of value-adding activities has impacted on this process and on multinational evolution as a whole.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Identification and Development of Strategy at Subsidiary Level....Pages 23-49
Individualism and Interdependence in the Technological Development of MNEs: The Strategic Positioning of R&D in Overseas Subsidiaries....Pages 50-75
Global Resource Flows and MNE Network Integration....Pages 76-101
Between Headquarters and Subsidiaries: The RHQ Solution....Pages 102-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Centres of Excellence in Multinational Companies: The Case of Denmark....Pages 141-161
A Typology of Centres Within Multinational Corporations: An Empirical Investigation....Pages 162-188
Centres of Excellence in the International Firm....Pages 189-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Using Technology as a Path to Subsidiary Development....Pages 213-238
Strategic Development of Multinational Subsidiaries in Ireland....Pages 239-267
Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries and Regional Development: The Case of Sweden....Pages 268-298
Functional and Line of Business Evolution Processes in MNC Subsidiaries: Sony in the USA, 1972–95....Pages 299-332
Organisational Learning in Japanese MNCs: Four Affiliate Archetypes....Pages 333-366
Conclusions and Policy Implications....Pages 367-379
Back Matter....Pages 381-392

✦ Subjects

Marketing;International Business;Organization;Management