CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

By Tony S. Frost, Julian Birkinshaw, P. Ensign. 2002

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Guest Editors' Introduction Strategy Research in Emerging Economies: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom* (2005, neutral): “Such international exploration allows emerging economy businesses to enhance their long term performance (Frost et al., 2002).”
Dual embeddedness, influence and performance of innovating subsidiaries in the multinational corporation (2014, background): “into centers of excellence, which basically suggests that subsidiaries that are able to manage knowledge and competence flows with the purpose of innovation will generate strategic roles within the corporate network and have an increased influence over investments and resource allocation (Frost et a”
Reconceptualizing the Firm in a World of Outsourcing and Offshoring: The Organizational and Geographical Relocation of High-Value Company Functions (2010, neutral): “In the broadest sense, for each function the company needs to perform, it can choose between its foreign subsidiaries which compete with each other to earn a ‘global mandate’ (Frost et al., 2002) for that particular operation or task as well as external outsource vendors in various nations who also ”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “Basic research is most likely to remain in a firm’s home country (Chen, 2004; Frost et al., 2002; Thursby and Thursby, 2006).”
Global, Local, or Regional? The Locus of MNE Strategies (2016, neutral): “Building on this work, Frost et al. (2002) identify the location-specific parameters determining whether a ‘centre of excellence’ will emerge in a particular location.”