Recent research suggests that both the scholarly and the managerial perspectives on intra-organizational conflict in multinational corporations (MNC) between headquarters (HQ) and their foreign subsidiaries have changed. Today, conflict is not necessarily regarded as dysfunctional or the result...

Favors are a medium of exchange for social capital. Social capital creates social, political, and economic benefits for individuals, organizations, communities, and societies around the world. Favors promote cooperation between individuals and are used to bond individual actors with other...

This study investigates the widely overlooked phenomenon of multinational enterprise (MNE) location avoidance, utilizing a multi-method research design and data on 131 foreign investment locations. It complements economic-choice-based location research by adding contextual dimensions at the...

Die System-Innovation des Transrapid scheint soweit ausgereift und tritt in die Anwendungsphase. Mit der geplanten Errichtung und dem Betrieb des TRP-Systems auf der Strecke Berlin-Hamburg sind regionalökonomische und ökologische Wirkungen und Folgen zu erwarten, die bisher noch nicht...

1. Too complex to manage? -- 2. The architecture of an organization -- 3. Planning for frameworks -- 4. The portfolio driver -- 5. The marketing driver -- 6. The organizational driver -- 7. The operational driver -- 8. The reputation driver -- 9. The financial driver -- 10. Performance...

Purpose – Recent research on intra‐organizational knowledge‐transfer showed that new capability development within multinational corporations shifts from parent companies to foreign subsidiaries. This paper seeks to identify antecedents and barriers for reverse capability‐transfer in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical perspective on whether the boundary-spanner model and consequently complex disaggregated intra-MNE value chain activities are crisis resilient. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a conceptual theory development based on literature...