Extending the Perspective: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises as Competitors and Network Partners of MNCs

Martin Brussig and Lutz Gerlach

Chapter 5 in Challenges for European Management in a Global Context — Experiences from Britain and Germany, 2002, pp 119-139 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Multinational corporations (MNCs) are in a division of labour with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): on the one hand, globalizing SMEs are increasingly becoming competitors of the MNCs, and on the other hand, they are also network partners for MNCs. For a better understanding of the strategies of MNCs, a closer look on their relationship with globalizing SMEs is required; this is the focus of our paper. Our investigation pertains to the German national business system with its consensual style of capitalism, but some of the results might well serve as hypotheses for other varieties of capitalism as well.

Keywords: Parent Company; German Firm; Network Partner; Service Enterprise; Lean Production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230510180_6

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