We present a new conceptual framework for managing conflicting strategic themes of localadaptation and global integration. The two themes conflict because local adaptation tends to value independence of local operations while global integration strives for concerted efforts for scale and scope...

Firms today typically face and must coordinate multiple dimensions of competition. This paper extends the conventional notion of organization structure and recaptures it as an aggregation of differentiated networks specialized for multiple dimensions of strategic attention. Graph-theoretic...