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stages model. However, we will see that these early studies have now been replaced by a more integrated approach which recognize ...
variables identified by Stopford and Wells. For companies that increase their foreign sales without significantly increasing pro ...
from one unit to another. Area structures are therefore usually complemented with staff specialists for specific product categor ...
adhocracy is a highly organic organization, flexible and decentralized to cope with dynamic and complex environments, with mutua ...
subsidiaries. Differences in consumer preferences and high communication barriers led to a decentralization of decision-making, ...
US companies developed new technologies and products. They were almost forced into the international market by spontaneous expor ...
configuration of this organization is called a centralized hub – comparable to Stopford and Wells’s product-division structure. ...
The integration–responsiveness framework In a recent discussion about the international management research commu- nity Bartlett ...
and in terms of organization structure. The vertical axis represents the level of global integration, and hence of central coord ...
organizational model in the framework. Some authors (Sundaram and Black, 1992) simply equate it with the transnational configura ...
Subsidiaries in 22 different countries were included in the study (for a more detailed description of the results see Harzing, 1 ...
Interdependence Interdependence indicates the extent to which various units of a MNC are dependent on each other and hence gives ...
subsidiaries form part of an interdependent network, they are all dependent on each other. The majority of subsidiaries in multi ...
and not too expensive way to be responsive to local markets, the difference for this measure is lower than for product modificat ...
action, certain goals/results/outputs are specified and monitored by reporting systems. The terms used by various authors to des ...
centralized hub structure in which headquarters takes the most important decisions. In the integrated network type of structure ...
a very low proportion of their input/output from/to headquarters. They are responsive to the local market, and adapt both produc ...
Perlmutter’s international states of mind Perlmutter (1969) distinguished three states of mind or attitudes of international exe ...
function, it will tend to be more localized than most other functional areas. However, MNCs do differ in the extent to which the ...
to use the ‘best practices’ which can originate from both the parent company and the subsidiaries. It is of course linked to Per ...
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