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Zusatztext Particularly useful ... pages on implications of the flagship model for managers and implications for network partners. Informationen zum Autor Alan M. Rugman is L. Leslie Waters Chair of International Business at Indiana University, and Fellow of Templeton College, University of Oxford. Previous positions have included Professor of International Business at Delhousie University (1980-87) and Professor of International Business at the University of Toronto (1987-98).Joseph R. D'Cruz is Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He consults widely with multinational corporations in the areas of global strategy and international operations. He is the co-author (with Professor Rugman) of the Kodak series of studies on Canada's international competitiveness, and winner (with Professor Fleck) of the Touche Ross Award for the best article in Business Quarterly entitled 'The Globablization of Manufacturing'. Klappentext This book develops a conceptual framework for understanding the network of relationships that exists around the hub of large multinational firms. The authors bring together perspectives from international business and the organizational analysis of networks to explain their model which is supported by case evidence from several sectors: telecoms! autos! chemicals! retailing! and financial services. Zusammenfassung Alan Rugman and Joseph D'Cruz bridge the literature on networks and multinationals by introducing the concept of the flagship firm. This theory of the flagship firm/five partners model is then applied to the telecommunications, chemicals, automotive and electronics sectors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: The Concept of the Flagship Firm 1: The Flagship Firm and the Five Partners Business Network 2: Corporate Strategy and the Flagship Firm 3: Internalization and De-internalization: Will Business Networks Replace Multinationals? Part II: Multinational Enterprise Theory and the Flagship Firm 4: Partners Across Borders: Organizational Learning and the Flagship Firm 5: The Theory of the Flagship Firm 6: The Canadian Telecommunications Industry Network 7: The French Telecommunications Network Part III: Case Studies of Flagship Business Networks 8: The Canadian Speciality Chemicals Network 9: The Five Partners/Flagship Model and the Scottish Electronics Cluster 10: The North American Automotive Cluster 11: Managerial Implications of Flagship Relationships ...
