Multinationals As Flagship Firms: Regional Business Networks

By Alan M. Rugman, Joseph R. D’cruz. 2000

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INTRODUCTIONOffshoring administrative and technical work: New fields for understanding the global enterprise (2009, background): “…on business process unbundling and the creation and relocation of global shared services (Sako, 2006), de-internalization and global networks (e.g., Rugman & D’Cruz, 2001), modularity and global subcontracting that builds on these theories (e.g., Gereffi, Humphrey, & Sturgeon, 2005; Jacobides &…”
Will China’s Multinationals Succeed Globally or Regionally? (2007, background): “Further, the large MNEs often serve as ‘flagship’ firms at the hub of large business networks where key suppliers, distributors, and businesses in the non-government infrastructure all come together in a cluster to help promote foreign sales (Rugman and D’Cruz 2000).”
Extending the theory of the multinational enterprise: internalization and strategic management perspectives (2003, background): “In this context, it can be considered as one of the key building blocks of the modern transaction-cost-based theory of the MNE, which also includes the classic studies of, inter alia, Teece (1977), Rugman (1981), Williamson (1981), and Hennart (1982).”
Perspectives on multinational enterprises in emerging economies (2004, background): “acting as flagship firms for an entire industry (Rugman and d’Cruz, 2000).”
The impact of increases in subsidiary autonomy and network relationships on performance (2012, background): “Second, the governance costs of coordinating these network relationships might exceed the value of engaging in these networks (Rugman & D’Cruz, 2000).”
Global Production Networks, Knowledge Diffusion and Local Capability Formation (2002, background): “…literature that, to capture the impact of globalization on industrial organization and knowledge diffusion, the focus of research needs to move from the industry and the individual firm to the international dimension of business networks (e.g.Ghoshal and Bartlett, 1990; Rugman and D’Cruz, 2000).”
Edith Penrose's contribution to the resource-based view of strategic management (2002, background): “, disequilibrium-based) international business theory (Rugman and D’Cruz, 2000; Rugman and Verbeke, 2001) may meet the newest strand in”
A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise (2014, unknown): “The capabilities perspective can also be seen as consistent with other international business literature, including recent thinking on knowledge management in a networked MNE (e.g., Rugman & D’Cruz, 2000; Rugman & Verbeke, 2001, 2002, 2003; Vahlne & Johanson, 2013).”