This paper sheds light on factors influencing to what extent MNCs are able to implement a global environmental strategy. We apply the concept of absorptive capacity to analyze what role the uptake and integration of external knowledge playsin implementing an environmental strategy and propose to...

"The book explores international management with a focus on the foreign subsidiary. The foreign subsidiary is an important entity within an MNC. Much of the future revenue and profit growth of the MNC will be from its foreign operations. Together with other foreign subsidiaries, the foreign...

International business scholars have conducted a considerable amount of research on both headquarters-subsidiary relationships and subsidiary roles. The horizontal relationships between foreign subsidiaries, however, have not gained much attention - although these linkages are important to the...

Im Hinblick auf ihre Internationalisierung müssen Unternehmen nicht nur traditionelle Bereiche wie Beschaffung, Produktion oder Absatz professionell ausrichten, sie müssen Internationalisierung auch übergreifend aus strategischer, struktureller und kultureller Perspektive steuern....