Human Relations was founded in 1947 as a collaborative transatlantic project between the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London and the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its objective was to encourage theoretical and methodological...

By criticizing the prevailing network models in the policy science literature, we hypothesize that regional networks are not helpful for a company per se; network membership may be used for purposes unique to the dominating firm. Thus, institutional linkages can most fruitfully be analysed by...

Describes the manner by which the telecommunications sector emerged historically within different national business systems. National policy agendas; Description of the structure of the cross-national telecommunications industry; Structure of the telecommunications equipment supply sector.

This paper begins by describing an attempt to evaluate the contribution of the overseas affiliates of 20 European parent multinational enterprises (MNEs), based in four South-East Asian countries; Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Thailand. This was done through semi-structured...

The social embeddedness of the guest multinational enterprise (MNE) is presented as a multi-layered series of interfaces between expatriate managers and agencies and actors within the host state. In contrast to the unilinear and intentional development of strategic relations between the parties...

The comparative institutionalist approach to differences in national business systems necessarily highlights variations in the workings of contemporary capitalism. Less emphasis is given to similarities in historical events leading to the institutionalization of eventual forms of governance....