The specificities of multinational corporations (MNCs) have to date not been a focus area of IS research. Extant literature mostly proposes IS configurations for specific types of MNCs, following a static and prescriptive approach. Our research seeks to explain the dynamics of global IS design. It suggests a new theoretical lens for studying global IS design by applying the structural adjustmen...

The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledgebased environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and distribution. From the other direction to surviving in the highly competitive industry, requires strategies to c...

The management of human resources in headquarters (HQ)‐subsidiary relationships requires intensive communication, but effective communication often depends on having a shared language. Hence, language differences can be a serious threat to the successful management of human resources in multinational corporations (MNCs). In this large‐scale quantitative study, encomp...

One important discussion circulating in non-government organisation (NGO) literature relates to the increasing advocacy role of international NGOs and the political dilemmas that emerge at the nexus of North/South NGO relations. In other words how do "Northern" NGOs act as advocates for "Southern" peoples and not duplicate the wider impositions of a world divided by economic power and influence...

Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm, this paper provides the first empirical study that explicitly investigates the relationship between different categories of international assignees and knowledge transfer in multinational corporations (MNCs). Specifically, we examine (1) the extent to which expatriate presence in different functional areas is related to knowledge transfer from an...

While Traditional knowledge management emphasis is more on the technology and designing information systems, modern approaches focus more on human resources and their behaviors in knowledge sharing. So this research aims to investigate the influence of social capital on knowledge sharing between human resources of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) by focusing on human features of knowledge sharin...

Throughout human affairs and even in mathematics, science, and engineering, there are two logics that are dual to one another (series-parallel duality). Albert Hirschman investigates the two logics as the parallel-oriented logic of exit and the series-oriented logic of commitment, loyalty, and voice. Economics focuses almost exclusively on the logic of exit so that all questions of institutiona...

Relative to other marketing tools (e.g., advertising, promotions, personal selling) corporate sponsorship is seldom discussed in the marketing literature. This is unfortunate because corporate sponsor relationships can be advantageous to both nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and profit seeking corporations (Hernandez-Murillo and Martinek 2009). NPOs are organizations that strive to provide goods ...

Traditionally there has been a stark contrast between ‘cathedrals of learning’ (universities) and ‘cathedrals of earning’ (corporations). In the last few decades, however, it has been increasingly argued that university organizations need to be more similar to corporations and that there should be greater interaction between universities and corporations. Arguments along these lines have been p...