Emerging capabilities in manufacturing companies: taxonomy of multinationals transformation

Omar Salgado, Yongjiang Shi and Jerry Banks

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2012, vol. 9, issue 3, 275-310

Abstract: This article presents an 80-year historical study of the evolution of a multinational company's manufacturing network. The study is based on business transactions and semi-structured interviews with managers. Company milestones and evolutionary stages emerged from the analysis and two evolutionary characteristics were identified; capability exploration and capability exploitation denoting how the company increased its corporate knowledge and deployed it corporate wide. The output includes a new taxonomy of company transformation that describes how subsidiaries of modern multinationals influence corporate growth.

Keywords: manufacturing networks; multinational corporations; MNCs; MNC evolution; MNC growth; subsidiary capabilities; MNC subsidiaries; firm growth; capability exploitation; corporate knowledge; knowledge management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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