This article reports on the strategic adjustments undertaken by the larger firms of 5 European, 3 Asian Pacific, and the U.S. textile mill products companies during the 1960s and 1970s, and examines several of the underlying reasons for the gradual decline in the U.S. industry's international...

Drawing upon complementary streams of research from the international production and manufacturing strategy literature a conceptual framework was developed that identifies the major internal and external factors that may influence a firm's international manufacturing configuration (IMC)...

This article summarizes the impact on the U.S. apparel industry of international trade flows from 1972 to 1976 and discusses several of the underlying reasons behind the continued decline in its international competitiveness. The article also describes the even larger competitive toll on the...

This paper reports on the extent to which differential authority, host country risk, host country supplier, and host country perceptions exist among U.S-based and foreign-based purchasing managers who belong to the same multinational manufacturing firm. Differential perceptions were found to...

Along with the rise and development of transaction cost economics, Stephen H. Hymer's works have recently become a matter of some controversy. This note clarifies the main issues in the controversy and explores the contributions of Hymer's theory of the MNE. A review of Hymer's works reveals...

There does not appear to be consensus concerning what is the conceptual domain of international business. This paper argues that this is due in part to an emphasis on the firm as the unit of analysis. It is further argued that a comprehensive, generative and theoretically integrative definition...

Scant attention has been given to the organizational locations of the various tasks that comprise the management process responsible for the international compensation and benefits program of particular international firms. The organizational locations of 3 managerial tasks associated with these...

This article examines the historical strategic adjustment process of ten apparel manufacturers as they reacted to high levels of import competition. The companies were divided into three groups according to their success and a series of propositions are offered linking adjustment strategies to...

This article reports the results of an exploratory study comparing the managerial beliefs and needs of Mexican nationals employed by U.S. subsidiaries in Mexico and those of U.S. and Mexican managers employed by U.S. and Mexican-owned firms. It concludes that the managerial belief and need...