A wide range of interorganizational relationships falls on the global market to multinational hierarchy spectrum, ranging from supplier relationships (Dyer and Chu, 2000) to multinational business groups (Colpan, Hikino, and Lincoln, 2010; Granovetter, 1994). Concurrently, as firms increasingly...

This chapter is a commentary on Kobrin's essay on the current transition to the transnational era where there is a shift in the balance of power from sovereign states to non-state stakeholders and what role the multinational corporation (MNC) plays in this transition. It celebrates Kobrin's...

In this paper we examine foreign location choices of the top 100 US multinational corporations (MNCs) in 1980 and 2000. We first ask whether there has been a change in MNC foreign location choice in this two-decade period. Second, we explore the underlying reasons of location change by focusing...