The Multinational Enterprise as a Learning Organization

Donald Lessard () and Alice H. Amsden
Additional contact information
Alice H. Amsden: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chapter 4 in Contemporary Economic Issues, 1998, pp 65-81 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract According to top managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the applied international management literature studies of their strategy and organization, a unique benefit that these firms seek to obtain from their multinational reach is a richer learning experience about products, processes and organizing principles.1 A major challenge is how to structure themselves to learn what is best for all their operating units and to diffuse what is learned in one part of the organization to other parts.

Keywords: Direct Foreign Investment; Learn Organization; Capacity Utilization; Intangible Asset; Local Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: The multinational enterprise as a learning organization (1996)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-26084-3_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349260843

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26084-3_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in International Economic Association Series from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().