This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...

Die moderne Unternehmung ist vor allem durch eine bestimmte Organisationseinheit, von Mintzberg (1979) als Strategic Apex bezeichnet, und heute meistens Konzernzentrale genannt, gekennzeichnet. Seit Chandler's (1962) grundlegender Arbeit Strategy and Structure hat diese Organisationseinheit...