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Management and International Review

Can Multinationals Bridge the Gap Between Global and Local?

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  1. Niels G. Noorderhaven
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  • Internationale Unternehmen als Vorreiter der Globalisation: Erfahrungsberichte

Part of the book series: mir Special Issue (MIR, volume 2)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-2
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  2. Guest Editor’s Introduction

    • Niels G. Noorderhaven
    Pages 3-6

  3. An Empirical Analysis of the Corporate Effect: The Impact of the Multinational Corporation on the Performance of Its Units Worldwide

    • Manuel Becerra, Juan Santaló
    Pages 7-26

  4. The Performance Implications of a Global Integration Strategy in Global Industries: An Empirical Investigation Using Inter-area Product Flows

    • Alfredo J. Mauri, Rakesh B. Sambharya
    Pages 27-46

  5. The “Country-of-origin Effect” in Multinational Corporations: Sources, Mechanisms and Moderating Conditions

    • Niels G. Noorderhaven, Anne-Wil Harzing
    Pages 47-66

  6. The Art of Knowledge Transfer: Secondary and Reverse Transfer in China’s Telecommunications Manufacturing Industry

    • Peter J. Buckley, Jeremy Clegg, Hui Tan
    Pages 67-94

  7. Internal Diversity and Culture’s Consequences: Branch/Head Office Relations in a German Financial MNC

    • Fiona Moore
    Pages 95-112

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 113-114
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units. This can be seen as an indicator of the extent to which the MNC is capable of putting its corporate-level resources to work on aglobaI scale. Becerra and San­ tal6 find that about ten percent of the variability of regional units is attributable to corporate effects. The more internationalized the MNC is, the stronger the cor­ porate effect. This suggests that the more internationalized MNCs are also more successful in integrating their international operations, whether by employing worldwide home-grown advantages, or by spreading over the entire organization resources and capabilities developed by a particular subsidiary. This integration within the MNC, that can be assumed to be responsible for the stronger corporate effect in the more internationalized MNCs in Becerra and Santal6's sampie, is the focus of Mauri and Sambharya's paper. These authors study the effect of global integration on the performance of the MNC, operatio­ nalizing global integration as the inter-area product flows within the multinatio­ nal. They find a non-linear relation between global integration and MNC per­ formance. At low levels of global integration, there is a negative relation with performance, which turns positive at intermediate levels, but negative again at very high levels of global integration. Their explanation is that at very low and very high levels of integration the balance between the costs and benefits of global integration activities is negative.

About the authors

Professor DR. Niels G. Noorderhaven is Professor of International Management at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Management and International Review

  • Book Subtitle: Can Multinationals Bridge the Gap Between Global and Local?

  • Editors: Niels G. Noorderhaven

  • Series Title: mir Special Issue

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-90995-4

  • Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-409-12447-8Published: 15 July 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-90995-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 114

  • Additional Information: Ursprünglich als Heft einer Zeitschrift veröffentlich.

  • Topics: Emerging Markets/Globalization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Business and Management, general

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