Orchestration of the global network organization / edited by Torben Pedersen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pedersen, Torben.

Series:

Advances in international management ; v. 27.

Advances in international management, 1571-5027 ; v. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Management.

International business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The organizational design of the Multinational Corporation (MNC) was a vibrant area of research in the field of International Business and Management during 1970-1990s. However, since then this research has largely faded from our scholarship. The world and environmental forces' have changed substantially in the last decades placing new constraints on MNCs. External shocks have increased and MNCs need to learn how to live with this increased market volatility. Integrating value chains makes MNCs more efficient but also vulnerable. The relentless forces of competition and globalization are forcing MNCs to divide their activities and reach for foreign inputs, markets and partners. By dividing their value chain into discrete pieces' some to be performed in-house, while others are outsourced to partner organizations' MNCs hope to reduce overall costs and risks, while also reaping the benefits of ideas from contractors or alliance partners worldwide. These challenges call for new research on the organizational design of the MNC. It is our intention with this AIM volume to motivate new research on the proper organizational design mechanisms of MNCs as of today.

Contents:

Introduction to Part I : Booz & Co./strategy+ business eminent scholar in international management 2013 / Timothy M. Devinney

The organizational architecture of the multinational corporation / D. Eleanor Westney

Professor D. Eleanor Westney and Japanese business studies / Kazuhiro Asakawa

Introduction to Part II : Orchestration of the global network organization / Torben Pedersen ... [et al.]

The diffusion of lean operations practices in MNCs : a knowledge-based, plant level, cross-firm study / Arnaldo Camuffo, Raffaele Secchi, Chiara Paolino

The virtue of in-between pragmatism : a balancing act between responsiveness and integration in a multinational company / Gabriel R.G. Benito, Randi Lunnan, Sverre Tomassen

Functional-level transformation in multi-domestic MNCs : transforming local purchasing into globally integrated purchasing / Frank Elter, Paul N. Gooderham, Svein Ulset

Network orchestration : Vodafone's journey to globalization / Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Christopher J. Ibbott

Re-thinking a MNC : the role of cognitive interventions in organizational design / Elizabeth Maitland, André Sammartino

"The most public secret" : concealing and silencing ethnocentrism in the MNC / Marianne Storgaard, Janne Tienari, Rebecca Piekkari

The omnipotent MNC : a review and discussion / Håkan Pihl, Alexander Paulsson

Complementarity versus substitution among political strategies / Stefan Heidenreich, Jonas F. Puck, Igor Filatotche

The dark side of multi-unit franchising : the drawbacks of local responsiveness / Andrey Kretinin, Todd Morgan, Sergey Anokhin

Organizing export strategies / Gabriella Lojacono, Markus Venzin

MNC headquarters as global network orchestrators : insights from headquarters relocation patterns in Europe / Alfredo Valentino, Phillip C. Nell, Jasper J. Hotho

Strategic archetypes of emerging market multinationals : analysis of outward FDI of Indian Firms / Amit Karna, Rajesh Upadhyayula, Vikas Kumar

Organizing MNC internal networks to manage global customers: strategies of political compromising / Elina Pernu, Tuija Mainela, Vesa Puhakka

To orchestrate MNC intra-firm relationships, one needs to understand them / Snejina Michailova, Smita Paul

Organizational reconfiguration and strategic response : the case of offshoring / Marcus M. Larsen, Torben Pedersen

Experiential learning and innovation in offshore outsourcing transitions / Christopher Williams, Maya Kumar

Multinational firms and the management of global networks : insights from global value chain studies / Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Stefano Ponte

Disintegration and de-internationalization : changing vertical and international scope and the case of the oil and gas industry / Colin Dale, Thomas Osegowitsch, Simon Collinson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781783509546

1783509546