Embeddedness and the Evolution of Global Networks: an Australian Case Study
By means of a case study, this article explores the evolutionof international business relationships. Spanning a 40-year period,relationships between an American licensor, an Australian manufacturingfirm, and a Thai firm are explored. Theserelationships(including how they develop, function, and changeovertime)are studied in the context of both applications of thenetwork paradigm to the internationalisation of the firms involved and the wider industrial settings (i.e., at the national,regional, and global levels) in which such business networksare embedded. These settings include different types of net-works.Such as the social, market, regional, technological, institutional and infrastructural networks, as well as underlying temporal, spatial, and representational dimensions. The analysisenhances management's understanding of the evolution ofthe internationalisation process by highlighting its dynamic,complex, and multi-dimensional nature, and also by providinga more holistic and in-depth understanding of the both the contextof international business decision-making and the issuesinvolved.
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2006
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Authors: | Barrett, N. J ; Fletcher, R. |
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Elsevier Science |
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