Global automotive companies are vast extended enterprises of geographically dispersed teams that collaborate on the concurrent development of new technologies and multiple vehicle programs. Consequently, it is challenging to effectively capture all new knowledge generated during continuous innovation. Furthermore, current knowledge management tools fail to adequately organise vital new explicit...

For those Western multinational enterprises (MNEs) such as HP and IBM under the pressure of ongoing E-Business transformation, strategic alliances can be a very useful way. In this paper, we compare two MNE subsidiaries (HP and IBM) in Taiwan to analyze their e-service alliance strategies and the similarities and differences. We find that Taiwanese firms are interested in forming strategic alli...

This study examines the liability of foreignness (LOF) faced by multinational enterprises (MNEs), and the effects of strategies employed to overcome the liability. Based on a sample of 3,085 Sino-foreign joint ventures formed in manufacturing sectors in China, the authors find that Hong Kong investors, who are often perceived to have lower LOF than investors from other countries, are more activ...

To date no study has been made to explore the FDI motives of foreign firms in Pakistan. An attempt has been made to rectify this position through a survey of both whollyand majority-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the economy. Market size and growth variables appear to be the most cited reasons for FDI by MNEs in the sample. The use of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) also reinforces...

Received: 26 May 2006 Revised: 16 May 2007 Accepted: 30 July 2007 Online publication date: 29 May 2008 Abstract Because of the strategic importance of organizational learning in a global economy, the knowledge that repatriates acquire during international assignments is a valuable resource. Few multinational enterprises, however, actively harvest this knowledge, and little quantitative empirica...

What distinguishes the global location strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging economies (EE) and industrialized economies (IEs)? We propose relative maturity in international business as the key distinguishing feature. Locations offering learning opportunities have a stronger positive effect on investment by EE MNEs, while barriers to entry have a stronger negative one. We...

cultural, social, political, and regulatory contexts as they expand their global presence. Of the 900 multinational enterprises (MNEs) surveyed in DDI and The Conference Board’s Global Leadership Forecast 2014|2015, 52 percent planned on expanding their global operations over the next three years, yet only a paltry 16 percent of these organizations reported having sufficient ready leaders to fi...

The following paper conceptualizes how the dominant institutional logic of the multinational corporation (MNC) is influenced by the local institutional logic of its wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries. It is argued that when both the density and institutional distance of the subsidiaries are high and resource interdependency exists, deinstitutionalization will occur. Institutional behaviours will...