Reshaping the boundaries of the firm in an era of global interdependence

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: European International Business Association. Conference
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pla-Barber, José, Alegre, Joaquín
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
• Σειρά: Progress in international business research ; v. 5.
• Θέματα: Business & Economics > International > General.; Business & Economics > Management.; International business.; Business studies: general.; International business enterprises > Research > Congresses.

 Globalisation is forcing companies to reshape their boundaries and causing business leaders to rethink corporate strategies within the firm. It is creating the basis for new ways of doing international business. The effects of this global interdependence are also being felt at the more aggregate levels of industries, financial markets and countries economies. The evolution of these trends has rendered obsolete some of the basic understandings of IB theory and practice, including traditional notions regarding the nature of the boundaries of the firm and even the definition of the multinational enterprise itself. This volume of Progress in International Business Research includes a selection of 13 papers from the 35th European International Business Academy Annual Conference, which was held in Valencia (Spain) from the 13th to the 15th of December 2009. This volume organizes in three parts a number of contributions to shed further light on these issues. Part I focuses on the boundaries of the firm and points at issues such as offshoring, cooperation and internationalization. Part II examines the phenomenon of networks within the context of MNCs. Finally, Part III deals with the role of knowledge and innovation in international high-tech environments. 

 Introduction / José Pla-Barber & Joaquín Alegre -- The antecedents of offshoring advanced tasks / Peter D. Ørberg Jensen & Torben Pedersen -- Reshaping the boundaries of the firm : global value chains and lead-firm strategies / Lorenzo Gui -- Comparative evolution of Japanese-European joint ventures in Japan and Europe / Shinichi Ishii & Jean-Francois Hennart -- New models of internationalization in traditional manufacturing small firms / Cristina Villar, Esmeralda Linares-Navarro & David Toral -- Firm and country determinants of environmental standardization strategy in multinational companies / Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres -- Networks in internationalisation / Martin Johanson & Pao Kao -- Limitations of the network organization in MNCs / Joachim Wolf & William G. Egelhoff -- Subsidiary contribution to firm-level competitive advantage : disentangling the effects of MNC external embeddedness / Phillip C. Nell, Ulf Andersson & Bodo B. Schlegelmilch -- Influence of subsidiary business networks on the performance of inter-subsidiary innovation transfer in MNCs / Stephie Hsin-Ju Tsai & Mo Yamin -- The role of international diversification and global reservoirs of scientific knowledge in explaining performance outcomes / Mario I. Kafouros, Peter J. Buckley & Jeremy Clegg -- Cooperation and innovation in the internationalisation of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) / Alicia Rodríguez & María Jesús Nieto -- Entrepreneurial orientation and international performance : a contingent approach / Olli Kuivalainen, Sanna Sundqvist & John W. Cadogan -- Technological resources, external research partners and export performance : a study of Italian high tech SMEs / Alfredo D'Angelo.