Drawing the Pieces Together

Anthony Goerzen

Chapter 6 in Networks and Location, 2005, pp 78-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the basic concern of strategy is to maintain and enhance firm performance (Rumelt, Schendel, & Teece, 1991), the logic that underpins the relatedness of a firm’s activities has become a central issue to both researchers and managers (Rumelt, 1974; Wrigley, 1970). While a great deal is known about the impact of diversity on firm outcomes, many important questions remain unresolved. This book has, therefore, addressed the question of how various elements of diversity are related to MNC economic performance by adding three new concepts while controlling for major alternative explanations. One of the new ideas tested in this book is whether the construct of geographic diversity can and should be separated into the more meaningful and precise concepts of international asset dispersion and country environment diversity. The second new idea is to determine to what extent network diversity has an impact on the performance of large MNCs.

Keywords: Product Diversity; Network Diversity; Macroeconomic Factor; Interorganizational Network; Japanese MNCs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

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

Related works:
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:palchp:978-0-230-51025-8_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230510258

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510258_6

Access Statistics for this chapter

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