Pearce, Robert; Papanastassiou, Marina - In: International Business Review 15 (2006) 2, pp. 151-165
The paper firstly describes how, using the two laws of 'increasing firm size' and 'uneven development', Hymer characterises the multinational corporation (MNC) as a geographically segmented hierarchy. In this structure HQs in a limited number of core countries exercise authoritarian control over...