Chapter 4. The multinational corporation as an interorganizational network
Sumantra and Chris Bartlett bring together in this paper the insights into multinational management that were documented in Managing Across Borders with the rich body of academic literature on organizational networks. It presents a simplified model of the multinational corporation in which individual subsidiary companies are the nodes in a network, and the structure of that network is a function of the broader environmental forces surrounding it. When first published, this paper provided an important advance in the way academics thought about the multinational corporation, because it challenged the simplistic ...
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