The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network

Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett

Chapter 4 in Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation, 1993, pp 77-104 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As pointed out recently by Kogut (forthcoming), the late 1980s have witnessed a significant evolution of academic interest in the MNC. An important element of this shift has been a change in the focus of research away from the dyadic headquarters-subsidiary relationship in MNCs, or the specific decision of a company to invest in a foreign location, to the coordination tasks of managing a network of established foreign subsidiaries and analysis of the competitive advantages that arise from the potential scope economies of such a network.

Keywords: Parent Company; External Network; Local Unit; National Unit; Resource Configuration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22557-6_4

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